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My goal as an interior designer is to find resources that will match your budget. Inexpensive Ikea products can be used and will make your home or office stand out from the rest if proper placement and selection are made. And that is where a good Interior Designer can help you! To set definition right, an Interior Designer can be likened to a "baker" who knows the ingredients of a cake and what makes the cake desirable while an Interior Decorator is the person who put the "icing" on the cake to make it palatable and beautiful.
Traveling is a good exposure to see beautiful items and resources whether in an exhibit, eating places like we met a Marketing Manager from Milan, Italy at Greenwich, England, who goes to Las Vegas Market, another good resource to find beautiful items. In the past, when the real estate market is booming, I have seen lots of model homes in Las Vegas, Nevada and vicinity.
Artwork and Decor items can also be found at places like Laguna Beach where good and upcoming artists display their beautiful work and I have also found "Luna" a small place at Belmont Shores that carries unique items that you can not usually find in other places. Luna sells home decor, gift and jewelry items you normally won't find in department stores. I have also gotten items from craft shows and of course the internet where I found and bought items online for some clients.
I have always enjoyed looking at beautiful things, not only on art, furniture, sculptures but jewelry that Palais Dorotheum offers. Dorotheum is like Christies which has an office in New York.
One of Vienna's famous painter is Gustav Klimdt. The dominant figure in his paintings is that of a woman, the female fatale and used "gold leaf " in most of his paintings. Vienna is currently celebrating his 150th birthday - 1862 to 2012. Gustav Klimdt is very well respected and celebrated by Viennese people as one of their own and his paintings can be seen in different landmarks like the Bugtheather and University of Vienna. But even the memorabilia, like a scarf with Judith and Holofernas print, that I bought do not come cheap. His paintings (reproductions) would look great though in a home for an owner who loves the gold color and a figure of a woman and yes, who wouldn't!
Knowledge and constant exposure is a "must" to be a good Interior Designer is what I learned and try to practice.
Next post will be historic and beautiful Rome and Perugia, Italy!