Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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134 nshoremag.com November 2012 Savoir Faire Home I N T E R I OR D E S IG N . H OM E D É C OR . G I F T S . 23 Barnard St., Andover, MA, 01810 . 978.409.6188 savoirfairehome.com 134 SPRING 2016 the showroom on a recent Saturday morning. Each of his designs begins as a watercolor painting, before being digitally transferred. Once the painting is digitally rendered, the patterns can be ma- nipulated, allowing for variations in size, layout, repetition, and color, depending on what the customer wants. "They're not done from a computer. They're done from paintings that will absolutely geometrically align themselves and repeat," he says. "The things we do are absolutely endless." The Welsh-born Blumgart had been something of a nomad, living in Scotland, London (where he attended St. Paul's School), Switzerland, and New York, before coming to Massachusetts to at- tend Babson College. He always drew designs as a kid for fun,"just doodling while I wasn't listening in class," he says. But it was being stuck on hold while trying to get his Internet ser- vice restored during a nor'easter in 2008, that got him doodling again. "I was on hold with the utility company forever that night," he says. In his boredom, he drew the North Star, the intricate pattern that would become his company logo. He started painting his de- signs later. When his sister, visiting from the United Kingdom, held his design up against a recessed light and declared that it would make a beautiful lampshade, the seed was planted and the idea for a business began to germinate. The company, Oliver Blumgart Designs, launched in October 2012, and since then his work has extended beyond the North Star Blumgart also designs a line of tote bags. tastemaker nshoremag.com/nshorehome/