8 Ways On How To Prepare For American Paint Company Vs Annie Sloan

8 Ways On How To Prepare For American Paint Company Vs Annie Sloan – American Paint Company Vs Annie Sloan

December 31, 1995|By Charlyne Varkonyi | Charlyne Varkonyi,FORT LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL

From tiny custom shops to mass-market retailers, the centuries-old art of corrective appliance is back, admitting prices that can go from about $1,000 to $7,500 or more.

Why now? Industry assemblage accept altered theories.

Nancy High, administrator of communications for the American Appliance Manufacturers in High Point, N.C., sees it as a way for bodies to accurate their individuality in a high-tech world.

“When you aggregate art, it is an announcement of your preferences and your taste,” she says. “This appliance is art in a altered medium. It’s a abundant way to affair a room. You buy that one allotment of appliance and body a allowance about it. It becomes the focal point, like a broiler or a big Palladian window.”

Leonard Eisen, who has been designing for Pulaski Appliance for the accomplished 30 years, agrees that bodies appetite to accomplish an alone account in their homes. He additionally sees this as a way to actualize appliance that reflects today’s added accidental lifestyle. At the April appliance bazaar in High Point, he acclimated corrective finishes on at atomic 25 items. Added corrective appliance was on affectation during the abatement appliance market.

One of Mr. Eisen’s best examples from the April bazaar is the Croquet Chest, a four-drawer chest with afflicted accomplishment and a painting of a croquet game. The appropriate retail amount is about $930.

“Formality seems to be out of the window,” he says. “This blazon of appliance is absolutely informal. It represents the way bodies like to alive today. Their lives are not regimented. Everyone wears jeans, and they like to appear in the abode and bandy things on the sofa. We are accomplishing annihilation added than hitchhiking on this accidental affairs trend. And I don’t see us activity aback [to formality] any time soon.”

The use of corrective appliance additionally reflects the acceptance of all-embracing architecture — area old is alloyed with new and aggregate doesn’t accept to match. Because of this, designers like Mr. Eisen are creating pieces that angle on their own and can mix calmly with absolute pieces.

“I anticipate it’s a amount of bodies accepting added ability about the art,” says Darrell Scott, a appliance artist. “There are a lot added books on do-it-yourself appliance painting, and the added abreast barter are allurement for it.”

Even the accumulation merchandisers are hiring artists to do curve of corrective furniture. Lexington Appliance Industries additionally has fabricated a charge to the corrective appliance attending with the Art Cetera Collection, a accumulation of items crafted in hardwoods and alone hand-painted.

The aggregation has about 40 Carolina artists on agents to aftermath the line. The designs ambit from armoires with bank scenes ($2,925 appropriate retail) to baby chests area the artists actualize a account of your home or baiter from a photograph ($2,730). One of the atomic big-ticket is a abyssal three-drawer chest with a painting of a clipper address (about $1,430).

The best academic of these offerings from appliance manufacturers comes from Habersham Plantation, whose artists actualize museum-quality pieces. For example, a hand-carved French V cottage block is based on a painting alleged “The Shepherd’s Daughter” by William Kay Blacklock (1872-1922). It is a bound edition, and it has a appropriate retail amount of $1,499.

Habersham’s pieces can get alike added expensive. The autumn Frontgate archive appearance a limited-edition armoire aggressive by the aboriginal 19th-century artisan Pierre-Joseph Redoute’s botanical paintings — it shows a bassinet overflowing with French flowers on the terrace of a French garden. Each armoire is signed, anachronous and numbered by the artist. The price? $7,500.

Books on corrective furniture

If you appetite to try a corrective appliance activity yourself, alpha with admonition from the professionals. Here are several books that ability accommodate afflatus and instruction:

“Simple Corrective Furniture” (Grove Weidenfeld, $19.95) by Annie Sloan shows how to adorn 20 items begin in best houses — from chairs and tables to chests and cupboards. The columnist gives abstracted instructions on distressing, wood-graining, dragging, combing, sponging, marbling, crackling, stenciling and decoupage. A account of suppliers is additionally included.

“Painting Furniture” (Henry Holt Co., $15.95) by Jaclynn Fischman shows how to adorn 12 pieces of furniture. The book provides a history of adorning furniture, gives suggestions on abstracts and accessories and summarizes basal techniques. A affiliate on the assignment of able artists and designers provides afflatus for the novice.

“Fantastic Corrective Finishes” (Crown Trade Paperbacks, $30) by Lisa Wassong with Steven Schwartz provides the best step-by-step photographs. It additionally gives a abundant comment of abstracts — from booze to water-based varnish. Preparation, condoning and cleanup are handled in advisory abstracted chapters. Another benefit for the novice: The 28 recipes included in the book alpha baby with projects like inkwells and candlesticks and body up to screens and bathrobe tables.

“The Country Adorning Painting Companion” (Collins Publishers, $12.95) by Judith and Martin Miller is the USA Today of this genre. A small-format book (6 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches), it gives abridged admonition on acrylic furnishings acclimated on walls and furniture. Added an overview than a how-to primer, the book is best acclimated for afflatus rather than solid hands-on advice.

Sources

* Frontgate catalog, (800) 626-6488

* For admonition on area Lexington Appliance is sold, (800) 539-4636

* For admonition on area Habersham Plantation is sold, (800) 241-0716 * For admonition on area Pulaski Appliance is sold, (703) 980-7330; ask for the sales office.

American Paint Company Vs Annie Sloan