Linda Graham Interior Design

I am an Interior designer and also the US agent for Porte Italia, an Italian line of fine hand painted furniture. The Venetian style creations of Porte Italia Interiors are works of art, the appeal of a glorious past, never out-of-style, carefully updated. The Company's furniture items are modern presentations of that timeless golden age of painted furniture centered in the 18th C. Each piece is hand-painted and decorated, using original techniques and materials, by lacquerers and decorators well-schooled in their professions and passionate about their work. The goal is to create furnishings artistically aged to blend with traditional antiques seamlessly. inspired by centuries-old style, not bound by it. Custom orders are welcome to coordinate with fabrics, furnishings and existing interiors. Each piece can be customized in size, color and decoration. Porte Italia, based north of Venice in Ronchi dei Legionari near Trieste, has roots reaching back 25 years, thanks to the entrepreneurial mind of Enrico Lenarduzzi, assisted today by his wife, Claudia Toso, and their son, Emilio. In the beginning, Ann Graham, an American artist, conceived the idea that it could be possible to re-create furniture that in the past had enlivened Venetian interiors and would be appealing to discriminating clients worldwide. Since then the horizons have expanded to include other mostly painted furnishings: doors, panels, mirrors, sofas, and chandeliers. In that quarter century these three-dimensional works of art have been exhibited in decorative arts and fine furniture exhibits on four continents, including, among others, London's Decorex, the Paris Salon des Meubles, Milan's International Furniture Fair, and Moscow's Crocus, as well as Dubai.