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architectural products for your home

All our architectural products inspired by popular historical and classical designs, well suited for traditional and contemporary decor. Architectural products not only enhance your home decor, but they also make your home more valuable. The addition of our architectural products will enhance any new home, renovation, historical restoration or redecoration projects, add value to your home, and ensure a distinctive and lasting impression.

Architectural Products
molding
Molding		 shutters
Shutters		 wood carvings
Wood Carvings		 balustrade
Balustrade
pediments
Pediments		 pilasters
Pilasters 		exterior brackets
Exterior Brackets		 door trim
Door Trim
ceiling domes
Ceiling Domes		 ceiling medallions
Ceiling Medallions 		ceiling rims
Ceiling Rims		 panel molding and molding corners
Panel Molding and Corners
fireplace mantels
Fireplace Mantels		 wall niches
Wall Niches		 wall decorations
Wall Decorations		 wainscoting
Wainscoting
balusters and newels
Newels and Balusters		 carved wood molding
Carved Wood Molding		 ceiling domes with lighting
Ceiling Domes with Lighting		 decorative corbels
Decorative Corbels
stair brackets
Stair Brackets		 columns
Columns		    
 

Architectural Ornamentation

In recent years there has been an increased interest in classical architecture and ornament among architects, designers and sophisticated clientele. Classical architectural details assisting designers in highlighting interior architecture, defining harmony of overall living space. Using architectural products like moldings, designer can divide monotone flat walls into separate section, stating classical proportional clarity and definition of the space. Simultaneous us of different decorative architectural products like columns, pilasters, niches, ceiling domes and medallions provide decorator of today's interiors beautiful opportunity of reinventing the grand architecture of the past, bringing the soul and sophistication of classical architecture.

Just as important as the tailoring of a man's jacket is the art of dignifying a room with architectural products, including cornice and crown molding, chair rail molding, ceiling medallions, as well as panel molding and other architectural ornamentation on cabinets and doors. Enrich both residential and commercial interiors by combining these exquisitely detailed moldings with other architectural embellishments such us wall niches, corbels and ceiling domes.

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Architectural Products History

Architectural products, deep relief ornamental decor has an very ancient history. Architectural ornaments, moldings, ceiling medallions and other architectural products were invented in ancient Greece and Rome. Designs of ancient architectural products contained repetitive stylized floral and leaves motifs - garlands and leaves of laurel, eucalyptus, acanthus, palm, and grape vines... Joyful embroidery like leaves of western plants and bold flowers, carved in marble or molded in gypsum with deep relief design are impressive and picturesque shadows giving a majestic effect.

By the way, before architectural products with floral motif there was strict geometric architectural ornaments. Geometric ornamentation highlights the harmony and clarity of logical architectural shapes, intensifying uniqueness of an interior. In general, strict, geometric ornamentation leads to grander space presentation through highlight of existing architecture, while the goal of figured architectural ornamentation is to bring visual delight and emotional life of interior. The ancient cities of the Far East gravitated toward multi-meaningful splendid architectural ornamentation. Architectural decor was filed with intricate and tightly connected delicate details, resembled of abundance subtopic nature forms - twisted stems, leaves, flowers and sprouts. Most famous architectural ornamentation motives are stylized sea waves, shells, fish, dolphins, friezes with garlands, horns-of-plenty, medallions, cones, and flower buds. Each architectural motif carried a specific meaning. Fruits and flowers, for example, symbolized fertileness, palm and laurel leaves are symbols of glory, words and snakes - symbols of wisdom etc.

Impulse, given to decorative architectural details by the Ancient World, weaved into all history of architectural embellishments with further variations - classicism, renaissance, baroque, rococo, empire are always giving to interiors the gift of balance, harmony, and festivity. And only modern style drastically changed stylistic of architectural embellishments, bringing elegant and capricious dynamics, extravagant asymmetry.
Architectural Ornament - The Spiral Scroll

One of the most naturally interesting and dynamic shapes used in architecture is the spiral. It has been studied in many ways for a long time. It is more than just a quintessential design form and an important symbol, it is also a keystone shape in the sciences and the world of mathematics. Many formulas came out from the existence of the spiral and eventually lead to the understanding and discovery of the double helix in the DNA. Where did this amazing spiral phenomenon originate from?... continue reading
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