Press
A varied look at some of the publications about us, our designs & finishes and the Interior designers we create them for.
elle decoration
“Down to Party” features HVART’s designs for Interior designer Trilbey Gordon. Including a gilded aged plaster ceiling, silvered strié plaster, ombré walls, hand-painted faux marble fireplace, Japanning lacquer dining room, multi-gilded tornado ceiling, colour-matched lacquered joinery.
HOUSE & GARDEN
“When Two become One” Article on Interior Designer ‘Rita Konig’ featuring the HV’ART team’s bespoke combing design for joinery & furniture.
World of Interiors
Featuring the HV’ART Team’s project on a castle on the edge of Loch Ness in Scotland. Commissioned by Charlotte and Will of Jamb London.
Vogue Arabia
“An Ode to Maximalism” article featuring the HV’ART Team’s project for Timothy Corrigan in Mayfair London
House & Garden
“Design Ideas for Lacquer & Gloss Paint” article featuring our HVART Contemporary Japanning Lacquer designs and our water based HV’ART Paint and Lacquer system.
Homes & Gardens
“Ahead of the Curve” article featuring two commissions for the lovely design team Salvensen Graham. A club room in our HVART Contemporary Japanning Lacquer design and lacquer painted kitchen furniture for 202 Design. Amazing architecture by Flower Michelin Architects.
Financial times - How to Spend It
“How To Spend It” referencing to our HVART Contemporary Japanning Lacquer finish using our HV’ART Crystal Lacquer Ceramic 90.
Elle Decoration
Huge drawing room walls were treated to a hand painted metallic design in ‘Steel Blue’, for ‘Studio Vero’ commission in Chelsea. The entrance hall walls were designed in a faux silk in a hexagon shaped harlequin pattern in off black and ivory.
The New Elegance
We were commissioned by designer Timothy Corrigan to create bespoke designs and finishes in paint and gilt throughout his Mayfair project.
Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens featuring our deep chocolate lacquer walling for Barlow and Barlow interior design.
Elegance & Ease
Nina Campbell Interior Decoration featuring some of our projects for Nina Campbell Interiors.
House & Garden
House & Gardens featuring our hand painted lacquer work.
Space International Hotel Design
Space International Hotel Design featuring our HVART Contemporary Japanning Lacquer finish.
the Telegraph- Luxury
“Luxury” featuring our HVART Contemporary Japanning Lacquer finish.
the English Home
The English Home featuring our Studio Vero Kensington project. Including our patina furniture finishes, contemporary Japanning lacquer, hand painted silk walling and chinoiserie artworks.
Financial Times - How To Spend It
“How To Spend It” featuring our Kensington Town House project for Jones Lambell Architects & Atelier T-Delight Interiors.
House & Garden
House & Garden features our hand painted faux marble finishes incorporated in interior designer Nina Campbell’s new ‘Kershaw’ wallpaper collection.
the World Of Interiors
“Rolls Of Honour” about the new wallpaper design by interior designer Nina Campbell, featuring our faux marble & trompe l’oeil designs.
“Once Nina knew what she wanted, she commissioned decorative designer Henry van der Vijver to create the marbled background and trompe-l’oeil bronze paterae that form the frames for the landscape”.
Homes & Gardens
“An eye for Design” features our lacquer finishes in interior designer Nina Campbell’s Chelsea home. Nina commissioned us to design and install a gradiated aqua lacquer finish for the walls in her entrance hall.
House & Garden
“Open To All” features our bespoke wall designs commissioned by interior designer Cindy Leveson. A subtle faux silk walling finish with a silverish glint in panels created a back drop for the elegant dining room walls. The drawing room walls were treated to one of our passagio designs in a calm coral to juxtapose with the window dressing. Natural stucco in pale aqua features on the kitchen walling inspired by the ground colour in the amazing marble work surfaces.
House & Garden
Our decorative Shang Tung walling and distressed joinery finishes feature in an article entitled “Of It’s Time”. Commissioned by Cindy Leveson Designs.
Canary Wharf Magazine
These giant columns are made of medium-density-fibreboard (MDF) an engineered wood. They were designed by the David Collins studio for a restaurant in the city. The columns were built in a grand lobby that is surrounded by acres of marble that could no longer be quarried. Faced with the challenge of making these columns juxtapose and feel at home, they decided a faux marble painted finish would be the ideal solution. Commissioned by Calfe Crimmings.
Nina Campbell Interiors
Nina Campbell’s book ‘Nina Campbell Interiors’ showcases over 20 pages of our work for the world famous designer. These include a project in Shanghai and the capital hotel in Knightsbridge. Nina also mentions that working with “Henry van der Vijver and team made life in China a lot more lively”. The book was launched in Asprey’s London in January 2014 and has great reviews worldwide.
Homes & Gardens
Interior designer Nina Campbell’s new metallic wallpaper. We were commissioned to create these hand painted designs for Nina last year. Nina has now added her magic touch to create this stunning wallpaper collection.
House & Garden
House & Garden produced their first DVD and we featured on this with our creation of a lacquered entrance hall for Nina Campbell’s Chelsea home. Nina is interviewed by Carole Annett about her “new look entrance hall” with its “incredible lacquer finish”.
“The Hallway was painted by Henry van der Vijver and goes from dark to light. The colours in my favourite glazed vase inspired him and I’m really thrilled with it. The room looks bigger and rather jewel like and by lacquering the ceiling we have finished the theme. People often forget about ceilings and it can make such a difference”- Nina Campbell
Gallery Magazine Jersey
Cliff top house in Jersey. Interior designer- Paul Bennett.
The Sunday Times
“Venetian polished plasters and finishes such as marmorino are also coming back into vogue, courtesy of Henry van der Vijver. These are a more subtle way of creating interest for they rely on specialist techniques and layers of stone & marble plaster to give rich and moody effects. They look particularly wonderful in deep colours such as aubergine and claret, and are amazing in a Venetian red. Many of the finishes- such as Stucco Venetiano- are not only ravishing to look at, they are practical too. Suede, pearl and metallic finishes are available.”- Lucia van der Post.
The Mail On Sunday
“No more the Status Quo”
“We changed the interiors of the apartment after we moved in as everything was plain magnolia” says Patty. “We used decorative artist Henry van der Vijver and team, who had some beautiful decorative designs, and had been working around the world on surface finishes. Some of the effects resemble a soft kind of marbling. There were layers of paint finished with a beautiful flat lacquers. They are beautifully practical and Henry has guaranteed that they will last for 30 years plus. Gold leaf has been applied to the large square area on the wall above the master bed and the piano in the lounge. There is also some gold detailing on the stairs.”
Kitchens Bathrooms
The Wimbledon Kitchen Furniture hand painted by Henry van der Vijver and Team as featured in Kitchens Bathrooms Magazine.
The Observer
“I’ve always wanted to run an establishment and have a place in the country so I’ve crunched two bones with one kick”- Neil Morrissey in the Observer-food monthly. Commissioned by Juliet de Valero Wills.
Revisiting The Painted House
Richard assists Graham Rust on his mural projects.
Dream Homes: 100 Inspirational Interiors
Interior Designer- Juliet de Valero Willis.
The Evening Standard
Henry van der Vijver and team are voted “one of London’s friendliest businesses”.
Homes & Gardens
“Songs from the Sea”.
Coast
“Something to Bragg about”.
The Painted Ceiling
Featuring the Hilversum project, this publication mentions our assistance to Graham Rust on a night sky scene in a thatched Dutch house. “Sheep graze peacefully in the background and a trompe l’oeil bowl of roses sits in the foreground on the frieze. I was fortunate enough to have Henry van der Vijver and his colleague Steven to paint and stipple the beams which saved me much time in the darkening days before Christmas.”
House & Garden
“Silent Laughter” article on Graham Rust’s mural in Chipping Norton Theatre. We assisted Graham Rust on his mural commission at Chipping Norton theatre. Faux painted marble was commissioned by Graham to fill the panels beneath his theatrical murals.