David Riccio is the President of Canning Liturgical Arts, where he has been a leader for thirty years. He is an industry-recognized expert on historic flat and ornamental plaster as well as decorative painting techniques, gilding, and glazing, and has developed multiple innovative solutions for complex restoration conditions.
Hope Ensing is the Director of Canning Liturgical Arts and a graduate of Hillsdale College with a B.A. in History. Supplemented by her background in Art History, German, and Italian, her research encompasses Dutch curiosity cabinets, Murano glass, and the glassworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Effective integration of the major art of architecture with the various minor arts such as decorative painting, stained glass, and fine woodwork can produce a unified composition and a timeless interior. Owen Jones’ theory on the integration of architecture and the decorative arts in his seminal work The Grammar of Ornament defines what it means for an interior to be complete.