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能以假乱真的装饰画大师

Mr. Racke is the painter of choice for architects and interior designers looking to transform a room, or an entire house, by creating faux paneling where there was none, adding a faux marquetry floor or turning a powder room into a piece of pop art. His recent projects have included a graffiti-style wall in a boy's bedroom, complete with a picture of the boy on his skateboard. 'When we do murals I like adding something whimsical and personal,' Mr. Racke says. Projects can cost anywhere from $2,000 to upward of $100,000 for something that may take several years.

在意欲改造一个房间或是一整栋房子的建筑师与室内设计师看来，拉克是绝佳的装饰画画家之选。他可以创作出似有实无的假镶板，加上一层假的镶嵌细工地板或是将盥洗室改造成一件波普艺术品。他近期的作品包括一个男孩卧室中的涂鸦风格壁，其中有一幅这个男孩踩在自己的滑板上的图画。拉克说：“画壁画时，我喜欢加上一些古灵精怪和个性化的东西。”其作品收费不等，起步为2,000美元，可能要耗费数年时间的设计作品的要价则高达100,000美元。

His showroom in San Francisco's trendy Mission District is filled with hundreds of samples ranging from Venetian plaster to trompe l'oeil to Chinoiserie (Mr. Racke set up shop in the Mission long before the arrival of artisanal chocolate shops and the tech elite). Among his latest favorites is a stenciled Venetian plaster that his studio did in which the background is matte and the stencil is done in a high gloss, giving the work texture and depth. There is also a section of a coffered Moroccan-style ceiling where the centerpiece of each stenciled coffer is a painting done on one side of glass and then turned over, so the image is seen in reverse. It took eight artists working for Mr. Racke one month to create the 30-foot-by-30-foot ceiling in a Santa Barbara home.