When we first spotted this high-style interior, we weren't sure what it was. A hotel lobby? A tricked-out conference room? The set from a David Lynch movie? Actually, it's…
… a jewelry store in Kuwait. The Octium jewelry store, which lives inside a mall, to be exact.
We're not sure about the blue carpet, but we're really digging the chairs, desks, and lamps. We don't always like gold, but it feels right at home in this space, especially the way it's used on door handles and fixtures.
If we had a big dining room and some spare cash, we'd use this space as the inspiration for a long table with upholstered blue chairs and shiny pendants overhead.
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Comments (11)
Very Kubrick.
I agree...Kubrick was the first thing I thought of when I saw these photos.
tuffett tuffett tuffett!!!!!
i don't know what that big lovely
larger than life ottoman/chair thing is
but i'm calling it a tuffett. it's superbe.
xo
Why is it that curtain walls always look so chic and glam?
Jangles my nerves just looking at this place. Like fingernails on a chalkboard. I wonder why it gives me such a visceral reaction?
I agree thorndale...it just looks so cold to me.
Well, I guess we all agree... I was going to say Kubric as well... a bit of "2001", a bit of "The Shining". Really fantastical and lush. The colors and fabrics are amazing! I LOVE IT!
Also, this is THE MOST RESTRAINED design I've seen in Kuwait. Where's the rococo gilt and blood red silk draperies?!
Anyone else think of the late great punk singer from the Cramps, Lux Interior?
I agree with most others, feels Kubrickesque, and I think I've had nightmares in settings like this. I know it's supposed to be all richy-rich (and I'm sure the budget was insane) but it's psychologically kind of disturbing. Figures it's in a mall too.
That said, though, it is the kind of place I'd like to see in person, perhaps just for the feeling of being in a Kubrickesque kind of place.
Actually it also sort of reinforces something I've thought of before, that is that many things described as high-end, lux, high-style, whatever, are designed to be off-putting and cold in order to intimidate those who can't afford to participate and reinforce feelings of superiority in those who can. Maybe kind of Marxist but whatever.
@travislessness: That's exactly what I thought first. I teared up a little. RIP, Lux.
The space looks very 50's to me, even if the detail is more now or 60's in conception (the dropped lights with the soft projections). Reminds me of a sci-fi set or the Smithson's House of the Future...