Ruth Chafin Interior Design

When you view an oil painting, what strikes you first is a “feeling”:  happiness, sadness, despair, ……something.  The “feeling” is transmitted from conception in the brain of the artist, to the canvass, and through your eyes to your brain for processing.  You are getting a message that has transcended time.  A message coming from someone yesterday, or hundreds and hundreds of years ago.  It is in this way that Art becomes timeless.  Like some oil and canvass code, you try to decrypt the message.  What is the artist trying to tell me?  In this sense, Art becomes very personal, a sharing between you and the artist.  As you view the painting, you are focused on the “feeling”, not with how the painting was executed.  The grade of canvas, type of paint, the consistency of the paint, brush strokes, are at the most secondary thoughts, if thought of at all.
Interior design, if you let it, conveys the same feeling.  If the designer has done his job, the design of the room is Art, and there is a message.  The room is designed around it.  We all to often get sidetracked by how the a room was executed.  We look at fabrics and wonder how practical they are.  We imagine  how comfortable that sofa or chair is going to be?  Just like we would if we were looking at an oil painting and thinking about the grade of canvas used, we would miss the “message”.   In this case, using an old adage, we won’t see the forest for the trees.
If you really want to appreciate a room, always look at it first as a work of art, – mentally frame the room as an image.  The designer is the artist.  In his designs, he is telling you something about the owner, the house, or both.  When you think about it, the process is purely logical, as the designer seeks that “something” from the owner.  That “something” is  the originating point of the design.  View the room and get the “feeling”.
Here are 5 interior designs that are truly works of art.  What was the designer trying to convey?