For this week's look into the House Beautiful archives results we've pulled a diverse collection of pics from a flipbook called "Rooms we Love." Each one above is from a slide show below the jump, and we've even pulled out a few good links that stand out in the pics....
1. Victoria Pearson gave a natural look to this living room, which makes the majestic eagle by Ojai artist Katie Van Horne look even more real.....
2. Designer Ken Fulk replaced one big coffee table with two African drum tables in front of the Ralph Lauren sofa....
3. In this living room, designed by Jeffrey Bilhuber, one side of a back-to-back sofa faces the room, and the other side looks out through folding glass doors toward the swimming pool....
4. In a new 37th-floor Manhattan apartment, designers David Greer and Andrew Halliday mixed modern classics — a Karl Springer coffee table, a Jean-Michel Frank-style sofa, and Barcelona stools by Mies van der Rohe that the owner's Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Emma, claims for her own.....
5. L.A. artist Jorge Rafael digitally manipulated a George Hurrell photo of Lauren Bacall, who presides over landscape designer Jay Griffith's living room.....
6. In this gracious, pared-down living room, designed by Kay Douglass, an unstained concrete fireplace surround highlights the golden patina of natural wood....
(Images: House Beautiful)
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
As lovely as Lauren Bacall is, I don't think I want her giant face staring at me in my living room...
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Love the couch in the first photo.
view ...Brittany's profile
"...with two African drum tables...", they're called bamileke tables and have nothing to do with drums or drumming.
the bacall print is a bit trippy, but the large eagle/falcon is the kind of thing that would haunt me. i'm easily haunted.
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i love the couch in the fifth photo. does anyone know where I could find a couch like that for less than 2000.oo I'm looking for that style with removable machine washable fabric.
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I'm kinda besotted with the couch in the fifth picture, too. If it weren't guarded by a majestic eagle, I'd cyber-swipe it.
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"I'm kinda besotted with the couch in the fifth picture, too."
You're seriously excited about the back of a blocky beige one-armed sofa?
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Yes! It's like beige amphetamine.
And it has two arms, I'll have you know. My tastes are strange, not perverse.
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The eagle pic is really......big.
view baileyb's profile
Umm… so, where's the 2nd arm?? I don't see it…
Well, to be honest, these are all a bit stiff and static. Very designer-y. The seating is mostly rather wide-set, as if you don't really want to be THAT close to the others. Or could it be that these LR's are not really used that much?
Beautiful to look at; wonder how they really work. Anyone else feel this way?
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really beautiful and unusal furniture. I like the tree lamp in the first photo - kind of cool without being too over the top.
overall the decoratiing is beautiful and makes the apartments look like real luxury manhattan real estate that anyone would want to live in!
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