From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> To: Subject: Re: about the ceiling Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:12:03 +0000 no gold „ it is too moist an environment.. more fresco„ gold is too over the top„ it should look like parts that were made out of an old ship.. On Mon, Nov 9,2009 at 10:07 AM, Begin forwarded message: From: ion nicola < Date: November 9. 2009 12:44:23 AM EST To: SubJec a ou e ce ng wrote: .. I got all the pictures you sent me and the alberto pinto book. so i checked the book which is fabulous but you can tell Jeffrey that i can do most of the things in there even those pieces of furniture with a lot of mother of pearl in-lay. its a lot of meticulous work of course, but its doable. now regarding to his office in virgin island i was thinking that those coves around the painting on the ceiling would look nice covered with moon-light gold leaf. moon-light gold leaf is a very nice type of gold leaf, its something between gold and silver..its not warm as gold and not cold as silver , and i think would work very well with that painting having most of the colours cold and with the furniture's wood which is kind of cold colour as well. this is just a first thought... I was thinking at gold leafing because the surface its curved and gold leafing looks very nice on curved surface, and of course its not gonna be just raw gold leaf.., we can give a patina something related to that whitish-bluish you can see on the furniture's wood. eventually some borders on top of the gold using some pattern from the fumiture..or maybe some thin lines of gold on the wood, to relate ceiling to the furniture. then the border around the painting in the middle of the ceiling it might look good being like bronze..fake bronze or whatever to relate the painting to those curved gold-leafed surfaces.. or if we dont want a smoth surface of the gold leafed surface, we can do a texture.. Imagine something like some very thin horizontal stripes.. some stripe y