Visual Coordinator and Interior Design Consultant

"Sedona decorator, Felicitas von Ostau is now offering a unique consultant service she terms “interior re-design.”
Felicitas uses what people own and cherish to reinvent a totally new look, sometimes in a single day.
“My clients often say they can’t believe it’s the same room!”
“I call it CREATIVE RECYCLING, because it is both economical and ecologically sound.”
The decorator acts as an hourly consultant who can transform a room by simplifying and rearranging furniture and art or adding pieces from another room.
Whenever furnishings or accessories are required, either for a “makeover” or designing a new home, she assists clients in selecting their purchases."

(exerpt from a press release in Sedona Red Rock News May 7, 2004)

Artist Portrait
by Gail Shaw
(Reproduced by permission of Village Community News)

Most of us have found ourselves, at one time or another, with company coming and a sinking feeling that the old place just looks tired. What do we do with all this old (but sentimental) stuff? Or how should we mange our used furniture in our new bouse and make it look gorgeous? Can't afford to sweep into an elegant shop to buy a chic new living room arrangement? Neither could I. But all was not lost...I called Sedona’s own Miracle Worker, true artist of an unusual art form, an Interior Designer with her own special niche, Felicitas von Ostau.
Space is the canvas Felicitas uses. She sees it filled with possibilities the minute she walks in the door. Your objects, whatever they may be, become the elements of her composition. She arranges them...sofas, chairs, tables, art and lamps, etc., etc., as a painter or sculptor would, to balance color and texture and line and shape, creating interest and surprises, mood and character. Her rooms become places of beauty, harmony, peace and function. She seeks an open spacious feeling with everything balanced and in the right place. Called the "Texture Queen" from time to time, Felicitas loves incorporating fabrics and natural textures of all kinds into the decor. Her taste runs the gamut from avant-garde, contemporary, and oriental to traditional antiques.
With an innate ability to see beauty in each object and a distinctive eye for quality, Felicitas sometimes finds hidden treasures clients have forgotten about in the garage or closet. She can visualize the objects with a fresh perspective and appreciation and will often use them in an unexpected fashion. Her clients, many of whom have become good friends, swear that their rooms then became infused with new energy and a whole different feeling.
To have earned her reputation as a Miracle Worker, she has not only had to be a legendary talent, but as one might surely imagine, she has had to be a DIPLOMAT as well! And she is. Felicitas is tactful and professional with her suggestions. She truly can change a room or a home without having to charge more than her normal hourly consulting fee... but she may feel that the transformation could be enhanced by the simple addition of a coat of paint, a plant, reupholstering or a new lamp. You can do as you will.
Felicitas was born in a small town in northwestern Germany and raised in a family of classically trained actors, where creativity, music, art and theater surrounded her. World War II and its aftermath greatly affected her life. Needing to find work, she became an x-ray technologist in Munich, though opportunities were scarce there at the time. What followed was a 13-year medical career elsewhere in Europe, Boston and New York. Always wanting to pursue her passion for art and design, she did eventually start her own Interior Design firm in New Jersey, which she headed for 13 years. After seeing Sedona for the first time 12 years ago, she went home, packed up and was living here permanently 10 weeks later.
It’s lucky for us Sedona folks that her same decisiveness and vision is now living here! Felicitas offers an innovative design approach by working with art, collectables and furniture from your own source. She can be reached at 284-0391.

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