Martin Benad

Martin Benad (with Ursula E. Benad) run the studio Atelier Benad for the creative use of color and wall decoration in Munich. They develop individual designs for private homes and businesses and offer regular seminars on color planning, wall decorating, and illusionary painting. Their previous books include Trompe L’Oeil Today and, in this series, Trompe L’Oeil Sky and Sea and Trompe L’Oeil Grisaille: Architecture & Drapery.

Martin Benad

Martin Benad (with Ursula E. Benad) run the studio Atelier Benad for the creative use of color and wall decoration in Munich. They develop individual designs for private homes and businesses and offer regular seminars on color planning, wall decorating, and illusionary painting. Their previous books include Trompe L’Oeil Today and, in this series, Trompe L’Oeil Sky and Sea and Trompe L’Oeil Grisaille: Architecture & Drapery.

Books by Martin Benad

  • Trompe L'Oeil Today

    Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad

    Hardback, 2004

    From a countryside panorama in a windowless room to a faux mosaic wall, an intricately painted Oriental carpet to a soaring cathedral dome in a single-story room, Trompe l’oeil painting offers an...
  • Trompe L'Oeil: Sky and Sea

    Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad

    Paperback, 2005

    Sky and sea are the trompe l'oeil painter's favorite motifs for contemporary interiors.
  • Trompe L'Oeil: Italy Ancient and Modern

    Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad

    Paperback, 2008

    For centuries Italy has exuded a mythical aura: in no other country do antiquity and modernity, history, art, landscape, and the graceful art of living seem to merge and coexist with such simple...