{design: interiors, designed}

It seems that everywhere I look lately, there are pictures of beautifully detailed watercolors of interiors. These are courtesy of the New York Times. I've been so inspired by them that I purchased a sketch pad and colored pencils to try to teach myself how to develop a complete and detailed room on paper. I'm hoping it will help with my architect and the cabin renovation project...

An 1846 watercolor of the Schloss Fischbach’s Red Room by Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Klose.
An1848 watercolor of the Queen's sitting room at Buckingham Palace.
The museum has supplemented the Thaw works with related watercolors, furniture, decorative objects and books. Thus Matthaus Kern’s 1837 depiction of a wonderfully austere Biedermeier study with a pinch-waisted side chair in one corner hangs near a similar real chair.

All Photos: Matt Flynn/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/15/arts/20080815-HOUS_index.html