An unusual combination of design styles in a wide price range is the goal of Chicago interior designer Dale Carol Anderson`s new salon, which sells to retail buyers and those in the trade.
Beautifully presented in renovated space at 414 N. Orleans St., Suite 302, Anderson`s collection includes furniture, accessories, paintings, drawings, sculpture, objets d`art and continental antiques.
Among the featured styles are Art Deco, Chinese, African and clean-lined contemporary.
”We are just putting together good design in a unique combination and with an extremely varied price range,” Anderson says. ”There could be a $20,000 desk mixed with small accessory items, but all are representative of the best in design.
”I try to mix things from every period that are really appealing,” she says.
On display at the opening were a white-washed teak elephant howdah, made into an exotic seating arrangement with pillows; a Philippine wagon wheel that was ”a found object,” Anderson says, and made into a coffee table; exotic baskets; African tribal bronzes; prayer wheels; early 19th Century French lyre-back chairs; period hand-colored Deco posters; French Art Deco sofas recovered and the design reworked to American taste; and ”a very rare Jules Leleu desk, circa 1925, with ormulu mounting in exquisite condition.”
Also featured is the work of two internationally recognized artists, Parisian painter Bernadette Predair and French sculptor Charles Correia, famous for his bronzes. These artists` works have never before been seen in the United States.
A private collection of Art Deco furnishings and accessories by Parisian designer Nicole Sultan will also be shown in Anderson`s salon.
