Franklin Tartaglione - Fine Decorative Painting - Floors - Franklin Tartaglione has worked with many of the world's most renowned interior designers. In the early 1980's he was first assistant at the side of the late Robert Jackson, then the premier decorative artist in the country; he formed his own firm in 1986. Clients have included The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where in addition to his decorative work in the American Wing’s period rooms, his fine art is represented in the museum's permanent drawing collection. Other notable clients include The White House, Blair House, the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at The State Department in Washington D.C., Merchant / Ivory Productions, and several projects for The Royal Family of The Netherlands. In addition, it has been Franklin’s great pleasure to make artistic contributions to hundreds of the country's most distinguished private residences.

This entrance hall in Greenwich, Connecticut features a large Adamesque medallion with stylized leaf border on a field of embellished squares on the bias. The play of a painted pattern against lines of actual floorboards is an intentional element of this high American country design and suggests the playfulness of much trompe-l’oeil work.

The decorator on this project was Libby Cameron.

The next pages show a detail of the center medallion, then an overall room view.