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Lord gracious....!!!! and people was making a big fuzz about the armani interiors being too generic on a past post?

This place looks worse by miles!!!!! This place looks right out of a "rooms to go" display!!!!

I find this much more interesting and attractive than the Armani Casa interiors we've seen here - yet very restful and soothing.

(Or were you looking at the Arthaus Furniture ad, Manupty?)
;-)

I will say that Scott's apartment (which I loved) had a lot more character than this project. It does feel, for lack of a better word, generic.

It feels "purchased all at once" and lacks the attention to detail that his apartment had. Thats okay if it were a corporate apartment or a traditional hotel, but not for a home. I don't see the individual in here anywhere.

andrew1978 --

Considering most high-end design projects truly are
"Purchased all at once"...
...and photos of completed professional interior design projects are often taken after the place is staged but before the client has been back their space for very long - Yes, this probably isn't as personal as a home that someone has collected furnishings for and lived in for several years.

bepsf,

I certainly realize this, but what I love about Scott's apartment is that he has sourced things in a way that feels organic and personal. Great designers do this for their clients as well. You misunderstood what I was referring to! To quote designer Rose Tarlow--
"There are those who spend lifetimes in houses that have nothing to do with who they really are. They may be perfectly designed, yet if they fail to reflect the personalities of those who live in them, the very essence of intimacy is missing..." for more of what I am talking about, I recommend reading her famous book, A Private House.

PS, bepsf, triptychs ARE often hinged together. See my comment. Seems we can never agree!
:)

This is nice - nothing wrong with it really but at the same time; its kind of boring.

The bench and bedding needs to go, it's making me nervous.

And what's with all the chairs.

I'm digging that glass lamp.
I only see two chairs, wait I'll cross my eyes.

I count three chairs and a bench.

You know, the more I see regular folk's rooms on AT the less I like these professionally designed rooms. I used to love them, but now I see that they lack the personality that tells you that acutal people live here and enjoy doing so. This is a little boring and cliche to me.

I see a lot of the furniture in the room is made by Baker. Nothing wrong with that, but I would have expected a professional designer to source furniture from a variety of manufacturers. Of course if your client prefers a certain manufacturer, that effort ends up short-circuited.

This looks like the most elegant wonderful hotel room. I don't mean that as an insult. I used to work on hotels and they rarely have the elegance of this room, though they should. I agree that this room looks unlived in because it probably hasn't been yet. Also, designers have to go with their clients wishes. You can't fault a designer for designing an apartment that does not look like his own home. I always tell my clients, "I'm not going to live there, you are!" A designer's job is to help the client avoid design mistakes, infuse the space with the client's personalty, be beautiful and function well. This succeeds.