Nella Alão
Previous Interior Design Work
I am passionate for interior design and all things home décor, with an appreciation for beautiful pieces of art independently of their style or period. For this reason I did an intensive course of decorative arts at the prestigious Escola Artes Decorativas Ricardo Espirito Santo in Lisbon, which included painting in porcelain, tiles, and furniture. I also did an intensive course of gilding at Giltwood Restoration, London.
I attended for one academic year at Scola for the furniture restoration course.
In Lisbon, I worked on the decoration of private and commercial spaces in collaboration with interior designers — these experiences were highly successful in creating and renovating spaces to an outstanding level of excellence.
A work of decorative arts Nella created for a restaurant ceiling.
It was decorated in a traditional techniques of painting glass, it was mounted in a big frame for a panel and a big stained glass to be on the ceiling and lights pass trough.
In private houses I transformed a plain wardrobe doors with frames decorated hand finished in a similarity of colour and pattern to the fabric of the bed cover, cushions and curtains. Made with high precision on measurement to a perfect fit.
The client had some spare mirrored glasses and she asked if we (me and the interior design) want to use them to any work, as the same time she wanted a different wardrobe doors, I had the idea how to use them, and this work is the result of a beautiful creation.
For the bathrooms I created beautiful decor hand finished frames in a good selection of prints also I did on beautiful pieces of marble resin a chic finishing in wall mounted lights.
In collaboration with a Interiors design shop I created many decorative pieces, especial décor in frames for beautiful and chic prints, the shop owner had same objects that didn't make sales so I changed the style with a more sophisticated finished using gold leaf, silver leaf and other pieces a touch of gold in paint.
In Christmas season I made a beautiful windows display with pieces created / decorate by myself.
All pieces had my artist signature and attached a small personalized certificate card.
A private client had a set of metallic dinner and living room furniture in a finished colour not fashion anymore. She wanted to change but very undecided what furniture should have. I suggested to change the finished instead to change all furniture. the client was very happy with fashionable and good result of the work.
Before a new finishing be applied
After decoration
Beautiful furniture set with a new look
This private client wanted a functional and resistant "shelf" where she can leave keys and other items a soon she is inside of her house. My suggestion was a strong column decorated matching a marble colours on floor, and above the column a mirror, however she wanted a "different mirror". So I created a mirror with the same width of the column and the top large enough to create an interesting and elegant mirror frame hand finished with same colours, materials and techniques used on column.
column in raw
Initially I created an example of the decoration finishing in small pieces of decor, after client approved I worked on final pieces.
final work in costumer Hall
Works created by commission to privates and commercial clients.
