Press

A varied look at some of the publications about us, our designs & finishes and the Interior designers we create them for.

World of Interiors

Featuring the HV’ART team’s project on a castle on the edge of Loch Ness in Scotland. Commissioned by Charlotte & Will of Jamb London.  

Vogue Arabia

Featuring the HV’ART Team’s project for Timothy Corrigan in Mayfair London 

Houses & Garden

House & Garden Article ‘Lacquer & Gloss’ featuring our ‘Contemporary Japanning Lacquer’ designs & our water based HV’ART Paint & Lacquer system.

Homes & Gardens

January’s edition of Homes & Gardens featuring two commissions for the lovely design team Salvensen Graham. A club room in our ‘Contemporary Japanning Lacquer’ design & Lacquer Painted kitchen furniture for  202 Design.
Amazing architecture by Flower Michelin Architects.

Financial times - 'How to Spend It' Magazine

The ‘Financial Times’ ‘How To Spend It’ Magazine ref our ‘Contemporary Japanning Lacquer’ finish using our HV’ART Crystal Lacquer Ceramic 90

Elle Decoration

Elle Decoration’s June edition featuring our designs & finishes for ‘Studio Vero’ commission in Chelsea. Huge Drawing room walls were treated to a hand painted metallic design in ‘Steel Blue’. The entrance hall walls were designed in a faux silk in a hexagon shaped harlequin pattern in off black & ivory.

The New Elegance

We were commissioned by Designer Timothy Corrigan to create bespoke designs & finishes in paint & gilt throughout his Mayfair project.

Homes & Gardens

Homes & Gardens featuring our deep chocolate lacquer walling for ‘Barlow & Barlow’ interior design.

Elegance & Ease

Elegance & Ease – Nina Campbell featuring some of our projects for Nina Campbell interiors.

House & Gardens

House & Gardens – Featuring our hand painted lacquer work.

Space International Hotel Design

Space-International Hotel Design – Featuring our Contemporary Japanning lacquer finish.

Telegraph Magazine - Luxury

Telegraph Magazine – Luxury featuring our ‘HVART Contemporary Japanning Lacquer’ finish.

English Home - Featuring our Studio Vero Kensington project

English Home – Featuring our Studio Vero Kensington project. Including our patina furniture finishes, contemporary Japanning lacquer, hand painted silk walling & Chinoiserie artworks.

Financial Times - How To Spend It Magazine

Financial Times – How To Spend It Magazine featuring our Kensington Town House project for Jones Lambell Architects & Atelier T-Delight Interiors.

House & Garden

House & Garden features our hand painted faux marble finishes incorporated in interior designer Nina Campbell’s new ‘Kershaw’ wallpaper collection.

World Of Interiors

World of Interiors article ‘Rolls Of Honour’ about the new wallpaper design by Interior designer Nina Campbell featuring our faux marble & trompe l’oeil designs. “Once Nina knew what she wanted she commissioned decorative designer Henry van der Vijver to create the marbled back-groundand trompe-l’oeil bronze paterae that form the frames for the landscape”.

Homes & Gardens

Homes & Gardens Article ‘An eye for design’ features our lacquer finishes in interior designer Nina Campbell’s Chelsea home.  Nina commissioned us to design and install a gradiated aqua lacquer finish for the walls in her entrance hall.

Homes & Gardens

House & Garden magazine article ‘open To All’ features our bespoke wall designs commissioned by interior designer Cindy Leveson. A subtle faux silk walling finish with a silverish glint in panels created a back drop for the elegant dining room walls. The drawing room walls were treated to one of our passagio designs in a calm coral to juxtapose with the window dressing. Natural stucco in pale aqua features on the kitchen walling inspired by the ground colour in the amazing marble work surfaces.

House & Garden

House & Gardens Magazine Dec 2014. Our decorative Shang Tung walling and distressed joinery finishes feature in an article entitled ‘Of It’s Time’ (commissioned by Cindy Leveson Designs).

Canary Wharf Magazine

These giant columns are made of medium-density-fibreboard (MDF) an engineered wood. They were designed by the David Collins studio for a restaurant in the city. The columns were built in a grand lobby that is surrounded by acres of marble that could no longer be quarried. Faced with the challenge of making these columns juxtapose and feel at home, they decided a faux marble painted finish would be the ideal solution (commissioned by Calfe Crimmings).

For more images on this project please view ‘News’ article ‘Contemporary Faux Marble’ Dated: 29/7/2013

Nina Campbell Interiors

Nina Campbell’s book ‘Nina Campbell Interiors’ showcases over 20 pages of our work for the world famous designer. These include a project in Shanghai & the capital hotel in Knightsbridge. Nina also mentions that working with “Henry van der Vijver and team made life in China a lot more lively”. The book was launched in Asprey’s London in January 2014 and has great reviews world wide. Here are a few pages from the book that show our finishes.

Homes & Gardens

Interior designer Nina Campbell’s new metallic wallpaper. We were commissioned to create these hand painted designs for Nina last year. Nina has now added her magic touch to create this stunning wallpaper collection. See the ‘Henry van der Vijver’ > ‘News’ > ‘Archive 2012’ for more on this project.

Homes & Gardens

House & Gardens produced their first DVD and we featured on this with our creation of a lacquered entrance hall for Nina Campbell’s Chelsea home. Nina is interviewed by Carole Annett about her “new look entrance hall” with its “incredible lacquer finish”.

“The Hallway was painted by Henry van der Vijver and goes from dark to light. The colours in my favourite glazed vase inspired him and I’m really thrilled with it. The room looks bigger and rather jewel like and by lacquering the ceiling we have finished the theme. People often forget about ceilings and it can make such a difference”- Nina Campbell

Gallery Magazine Jersey

Cliff top house in Jersey. Interior Designer-Paul Bennett.

The Sunday Times

“Venetian polished plasters and finishes such as marmorino are also coming back into vogue, courtesy of Henry van der Vijver (020-8742-1249; www.hvart.co.uk). These are a more subtle way of creating interest for they rely on specialist techniques and layers of stone & marble plaster to give rich and moody effects. They look particularly wonderful in deep colours such as aubergine and claret, and are amazing in a Venetian red. Many of the finishes- such as Stucco Venetiano- are not only ravishing to look at, they are practical too. Suede, pearl and metallic finishes are available.”- Lucia van der Post.

The Mail On Sunday

“No more the Status Quo”

“We changed the interiors of the apartment after we moved in as everything was plain magnolia” says Patty. “We used decorative artist Henry van der Vijver and team, who had some beautiful decorative designs, and had been working around the world on surface finishes. Some of the effects resemble a soft kind of marbling. There were layers of paint finished with a beautiful flat lacquers. They are beautifully practical and Henry has guaranteed that they will last for 30 years plus. Gold leaf has been applied to the large square area on the wall above the master bed and the piano in the lounge. There is also some gold detailing on the stairs.”

Kitchens Bathrooms

The Wimbledon Kitchen Furniture hand painted by Henry van der Vijver & team as featured in Kitchens Bathrooms Magazine.

The Observer

“I’ve always wanted to run an establishment and have a place in the country so I’ve crunched two bones with one kick”- Neil Morrissey in the Observer-food monthly (commissioned by Juliet de Valero Wills).

For more images of this project view ‘News’ > Archive > 2005

Revisiting The Painted House

Richard assists Graham Rust on his mural projects.

Dream Homes: 100 Inspirational Interiors

Interior Designer- Juliet de Valero Willis.

The Evening Standard

Henry van der Vijver and team are voted “one of London’s friendliest businesses”.

Homes & Gardens

“Songs from the sea”.

Coast

“Something to Bragg about”.

The Painted Ceiling

‘The Painted Ceiling’ by Graham Rust. 

Featuring the Hilversum project, this publication mentions our assistance to Graham on a night sky scene in a thatched Dutch house.

“Sheep graze peacefully in the background and a trompe l’oeil bowl of roses sits in the foreground on the frieze. I was fortunate enough to have Henry van der Vijver and his colleague Steven to paint and stipple the beams which saved me much time in the darkening days before Christmas.”

House & Garden

“Silent Laughter” Article on Graham Rust’s Mural in Chipping Norton Theatre.

We assisted Graham Rust on his mural commission at Chipping Norton theatre. Faux painted marble was commissioned by Graham to fill the panels beneath his theatrical murals.