AL members featured in Old House Interiors

Cover Story!

Check out the December 2008 issue of Old House Interiors on newstands now, which features the work of a number of Artistic License artisans.

In this cover illustration the art glass windows by Theodore Ellison, fireplace tilework designed by Paul Duchscherer, tiles made by Diane Winters, tilework installed by Riley Doty.
Elsewhere in this same house are built-ins and furniture designed and built by Debey Zito, and interior painting by Robert Dufort of Magic Brush.

Children's Mural at Burlingame Public Library

Muralist Lynne Rutter's recently completed major commission for the Burlingame Public Library.

The Burlingame Library is a charming Spanish Revival style building, designed by architect E. L. Norberg and completed in 1931.
The storybook mural was commissioned by the Burlingame Library Foundation to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Library. The Children's Wing is a large space with soaring, beamed ceilings, textured plaster walls, and a lot of odd angles. This presented a challenge as there is no one focal point to the room, nor is there an uninterrupted space where one might normally site a mural.

Design consultant and guild member Michelle Nelson brought Lynne Rutter into the project to create a site-specific work that would incorporated the room's architecture. In Rutter's design, the grates, arches, and doors were integrated into the painting, so that the architecture became part of the composition of the mural.

Faraway Castles, approx. 9 feet wide
"The room becomes a story; its walls the pages of a favorite book."

The Burlingame Library is located at 480 Primrose, Burlingame. It's a wonderful building well-supported and well-used by its community, and a well worth a visit from you.

above: The north wall mural with life size-figures was painted on canvas and finished after installation on site. photos by Lynne Rutter.

Amazing baths in Old House Journal

Beautiful Bathrooms for the Period Home

Master tilesetter Riley Doty is featured in this well-illustrated article in Old House Journal.

"The bathroom in Becky Waring's 1906 Berkeley, California, brown-shingle cottage—a house some attribute to Julia Morgan—was dingy, with linoleum on the floor and unappealing 1970s white tile set in stained grout. "I wanted the bath to look as nice as the rest of the house, while maintaining historical authenticity," Becky explains. So she researched period bathrooms everywhere she could, and did extensive product scouting. "It didn't matter if the fixtures were cheap or pricey," she says. "They had to look right." She also found Riley Doty, a master tilesetter with the San Francisco-based restoration group Artistic License, to help guide her."



The WC in Becky Waring's circa 1906 bungalow, tiled by Riley Doty
photo from Old House Journal.