Bridge For Design November Issue 2015 November 2015 | Page 42

design news | trompe

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1 The back wall of the Arab Room features trompe l’oeil neo-Manueline architecture and the room is furnished with ornately
carved Indo-Portuguese furniture Photograph: Alex Ramsay 2 The walls of this sitting room are painted with a trompe l’oeil scene
by Renzo Mongiardino which depicts a garden and crumbling architecture Photograph: Fritz von der Schulenburg 3 The trompe
l’oeil wall, by Renzo Mondiardino, gives the illusion that a Renaissance musician recently sat strumming in the sunlit armchair
Photograph: Christopher Simon Sykes 4 View of the enfilade of rooms leading from the drawing room of a Sicilian palazzo with
classical mural Photograph: Fritz von der Schulenburg
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Bridge for Design November 2015