Furniture - Macintosh Drawers

Another renovation and decoration project. The client admires Rennie Mackintosh designs so I repaired the chest of drawers and set about creating my own design in the style of Mackintosh. The decoration also needed to take in to consideration the shape of the chest and the placement of the handles.

I finally decided to incorporate the handles into the overall design, combine straight and curving lines using the straight lines of the chest and the curves to create interest and movement. The client's favourite colours are blues and purples and the room the chest would be used in would be a soft warm yellow. I used a paler tint of the yellow on the front of the chest to create a warm cream, a blue with a slight purple tint for the top and sides and also used this colour diluted to colourwash the inside of the drawers. The flowers were painted using a variety of the clients favourite blues and purples, the colours used for the flowers and leaves were graduated from light to dark to give more interest to the overall design. The chest was painted in emulsions, acrylics and finished using acrylic varnishes.


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