Cleopatra in my kitchen

Its not always possible to enjoy a masterpiece in your home but we come close!

When two creative heads (named Theo and Soula), ever so passionate about aesthetics and design, decide to renovate their home it’s obviously not a job that will be handed over totally to anyone. But like design briefs, the client has the ingredients, they (usually, hopefully) know what they want to achieve with their project so nope, you just can’t step aside and hand the task over. Have to have my say, have to get into this amazing process. It’s like experiencing a jumping castle – you fly in all directions, explore the options, go crazy and sure, reality hits hard when you land back on the ground and you have to get serious but it’s so worth doing. Jump, go crazy! This is what happened when we did:

Tiepolo's The Banquet of Cleopatra in our kitchen

I’ve always loved Tiepolo’s magical painting (that our magnificent NGV thankfully purchased back in 1932 for £25,000!!!!) and thought it would be so appropriate for our kitchen (“chatter chatter, sip, sip, she threw her pearl earing into the champers to prove to mark antony she could host a better lunch and she’s about to throw in the other one… oh my god, really? yes…” blah blah blah)  But not so fast, not so easy! There’s only one company out there, The Splashback Company, who are able to produce waterproof and fire resistant splashbacks and lucky for us WE FOUND EM!

So here she is:

Cleopatra in our kitchen