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Jane Hall Design · 10M ago

Retail Profile Jane Hall The Voice Of Style

Retail Profile: Jane Hall, The Voice of Style, Toronto, Ontario Susan Dickenson — Home Accents Today, 7/20/2011 3:58:11 PM Canadian designer and shop owner Jane Hall has been described as a “color lady… with a cool storefront/studio in the trendy Beaches area of Toronto.” Another writer recently des
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Jane Hall Design · 11M ago

What’s your Decorating Style My home inspired by the Color, Pattern, and the Forties

HGTV.ca Original Home Tour: Designer Jane Hall’s Colourfully Eclectic Toronto Retreat Posted by Alicia Cox Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:43 PM Who: Jane Hall, a designer known for her anti-cookie-cutter, colourful interiors and custom furniture (she’s been in the business for 35 years!) What: The home
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Jane Hall Design · 11M ago

The History of Interior Design: Syrie Maugham,Cecil Beaton and The Bright Young Things

  Before abdicating and leaving England for a their life of exile, Wallis and David surrounded themselves with a group of English aristocrats and their collection of  avant garde friends  called “The Bright Young Things”  whose lives revolved around drinking too many martini’s listening to the new j
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Jane Hall Design · 1Y ago

The History Of British Royal Style From Wallis Simpson To Kate Middleton

  With so many fascinating topics to write about in this endlessly fascinating topic of decorating styles, design history and design icons trying to make a decision on who and what would be the focus of my next post was a challenge, as the more I research the more I am fascinated by the not [...]
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Jane Hall Design · 1Y ago

What’s Your Decorating Style: Baroque Fantasy

Tony Duquette The Man Who Made The Magic   Tony Duquette was a master at illusion and fantasy.A true renaissance man he was a rare artist who could work in multi disciplines. I have been immersed for weeks in reading about this amazing creative genius Tony Duquette. He ‘s a kindred spirit, the ultim
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Jane Hall Design · 1Y ago

What’s Your Decorating Style: Modern Baroque and Dorthy Draper

Dorthy Draper. When High STYLE was “in-style” Dorothy Draper was the queen of design. The gorgeous terror of excess, or “How I was blinded with ornament” Dorthy Draper and the Modern, Modern Baroque Style Has there ever been an American decorator as deservedly famous as Dorothy Draper, a design prea
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Jane Hall Design · 1Y ago

What’s Your Decorating Style: Neoclassical Reinvented & Elsie de Wolfe

The Classics Reinvented And Elsie De Wolfe Portrait of Elsie De Wolfe the actress Elsie De Wolfe was an important figure in the history of design. In her autobiography, de Wolfe—born Ella Anderson de Wolfe in 1865 and the only daughter of a Canadian-born doctor—calls herself a “rebel in an ugly worl
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Jane Hall Design · 1Y ago

What’s Your Decorating Style: “Regency Reinvented”

The Classics Reinvented       Before his death in 1973, Haines passed the baton to associate Ted Graber who designed one of the firm’s most important commissions: the private White House residence of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. William Haines Designs,located in Los Angeles, California is carrying on th
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Jane Hall Design · 1Y ago

What’s Your Decorating Style: Are You Inspired By The Classics?

The Regency, Empire and Federal Style The Brighton Pavilion built Britain’s Regent and designed by James Nash in the early 1800′s In doing my research on the history of interior design, I found that there are so many periods and revivals of periods, different versions of these styles going on in dif
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Jane Hall Design · 1Y ago

What’s Your Decorating Style Marie Antoinette: The French Neoclassical Style

  Marie Antoinette, a visual feast and an inspiration for me and many others in all things Neoclassical and 18th century French. French and Fabulous Movies have always inspired me. The costume designers, set, art directors and cinematographers all use visual elements to create mood and to suggest em
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