When thinking of interior space, many designers will begin with mass and volume—its overall shape—and then consider line, color and materials. Most often the focus will start with a given area or room, taking in its relation to adjacent rooms or space. That is to say, the process is to break up elements first and then reassemble them through design choice.

This technique has been exercised historically since the Ancients. Egyptian temples and palaces were broken up into rooms and spaces divided by ceiling crowns and corresponding floor patterns; many times with borders demarcated by pillars and columns. The evolution of this design discipline found its way to both Greek and Roman cultures, and later by architects of the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo.

"Today, the design path is not so different." says Stephanie Croce, lead designer at JP Weaver Company. "I often begin with the ceiling and how it will be broken up within the room; from here I consider how this will relate to adjacent rooms and spaces."

The vast catalog from the JP Weaver Signature Plaster Crown Collection offers dozens of magnificent and wonderful choices for ceilings; running a gamut of crown profiles on a grand scale, to more moderate sizes. "Scale is always in the forefront of my psyche when designing." says Stephanie. "It's no accident our catalog of cornice mouldings can accommodate any space imaginable."

Yet working in concert with such pragmatic considerations as scale and proportion, is of course the overall aesthetic. And this would beg the question; how does one arrive at that harmonious balance between function, form and space and its relation to ornamentation as you stare at blank white walls? “Same way you get to Carnegie Hall,” says Stephanie, “practice, practice, practice.” Decades of design at the helm of the JP Weaver Company have led her through a myriad of interiors realized with the dozens of magnificent cornice mouldings designed by Stephanie and staff.

"But even in the best of a structured design process, there's really only one element to this type of design that matters within these spaces," says Stephanie, "and that's the feeling one gets when you go inside them."

This aesthetic has always been inseparable to both the products and the design services offered by the JP Weaver Company. If you have a project in mind and have been considering cornice molding, please reach out to us. We would love to discuss your project with you.