Top Billing magazine – July 2010
The Designers
Discover the not so black and white world of sophisticated de riguer John Jacob Zwiegelaar
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Ask any photographer about his approach of choice and – if he’s worth his salt he will say (confidently and with certainty); black and white portrait. As a technique, it reveals the underlying of a picture, rendering apparent the integrity of line, shape and contrast, so deftly belted by colour.
The documentary filmmaker will explain that black and white lends verity to an otherwise vicarious, even removed, mode of storytelling.
It is a measure of subterfuge that aids and clarifies our channels of representation but supplanting these intellectual conventions in the lived environment is a different kettle of fish altogether.
In the ill-considered, it can be a garish melange of discordant design elements that only allude to pretend glamour but loudly declare tackiness.
Done well it makes a sophisticated understatement and we proclaim it to be a ‘classic.’ This is the signature of John Jacob Zwiegelaar of John Jacob Interiors.
The toast of the design world, his work most recently been published in the Janelle McCullough ‘Design in Black and White and featured in the Andrew Martin review volume 14.
John’s Queen Road interior is an erudite expression of restraint and unfettered glamour, heeding architectural scale and enhancing spatial flow.
A latter day disciple of neo-classicalism, John evaluates each project individually and opts to custom design structural elements, hard and soft furnishings to suit the space proportionality.
In our last John Jacob Zwiegelaar story (Casa Royale, December 2009) we stated that John had been entirely responsible for the featured Cape Royale penthouse interior, whereas John Jacob Interiors was contracted to complete aspects of the architectural design.
The Penthouse was furnished and decorated by the client placing, positioning and sourcing his own furnishings.
Our humble apologies to John Jacob Interiors for our error. We look forward to offering our readers another story soon on the most respected interior designers.
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