Photo by Pieter Estersohn via Architectural Digest
The modern touch of the electric blue parsons table is wonderfully brilliant in this space. Overall this dining room is a wee bit too traditional for my taste, but with the table, I instantly love it. The juxtaposition of opposite elements always gets me.
Do you lean more toward cohesive spaces or ones that serve up some tension?
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I've been trying to do a modern chinoiserie (actually, not quite - it would be the Indian equivalent, but I haven't come up with the right term!) and Anglophilia mix at my house. I'm using red West Elm wrap chairs mixed in with a couple of other red chairs at a metal-and-glass dining table, with vintage Colman's Mustard posters on one wall and a trio of mendhi-inspired art prints on the other. The dining room is open to the living room, where we have an old secretary desk and a red reupholstered high-backed chair that are family pieces, mission-style futon sofas, and our ketubah framed in a gilt ornate frame that befits the intricate artwork.
ReplyDeleteSorry - long post - I've been reading your blog for a while!
Hmmm....I like a little bit of tension, but to me this room looks like a mistake. Like the table is the last thing to go as they go from a funky young space to a grown up traditional space, and the new table just hasn't arrived...For me, you need at least one more modern element in a traditional setting to signal that you're doing it on purpose.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I say bravo: I NEVER would have thought to do this!