Some details of the mural: the first on the left are two photographs, above, with Greek plate, the shelf that lies below & to the left of the window. Beneath it, some letters of personal significance to the home's owner as well as a note with the logotype of his club.

A shot looking above & below a top shelf with books from the Penguin Classics series & a vase holding feathers.

At the top a copy of a beautiful little Russian St George, next to Winnie the Pooh. Below, a variety of details including a Roman statuette, a drawing by Rafael Sanzio & a bullfighting postcard between the books.

Above, art books & an antique postcard advertising Carribean coffee. Below, The Mona Lisa in a perspective I found difficult to emulate (to give it a convincing sense of receding into the depths of the imaginary shelf). At the top of the stack, a book I invented with my girlfriend's name & a likeness done from a photograph of her dancing Flamenco.

Above, a close-up of the shelves at bottom left & threatening to burn the whole illusion down, a painted cigarette burning on the shelf below.

The Baron & Barroness Bettina & Cristoff von Pfetten's formal dining room in a beautiful house they built in Marbella, in part with large architectural pieces of carved stone that once belonged to a seventeenth century Dutch cathedral. On the walls, Bettina's collection of antique menus from famous places at times of celebrated events. Above the long table & hanging from the painted sky another bit of Holland's golden age, the chandelier.

Some details added to break up the symmetry of the discreet mural, (meant to open the room up vertically more than draw the eye) a pensive monkey sits in one of the painted stone openings.