Did you see what Bob and Cortney did last week? They made over the audience reception room of the Wendy Williams show. What does this have to do with me, you ask? I don't have an audience reception room, you say. Exactly!
Interior design inspiration can come from anywhere. Sure, seeing an actual home can light your design fire, but if you want to dream outside the drywall box, look further. Museums, boutiques, gardens, restaurants, audience reception rooms. My sister, who has great taste and a beautiful home, once said to me that good interior design should come from a sense of history, a sense of humor, and a sense of something else I forgot. Maybe style? What was it she said? A sense of smell? The point is that everyone always says your home should be a reflection of yourself. So how do you do that?
Pink and sparkly may not be your thing, but the question to ask yourself, then, is "what is my thing?". And to answer that, you have to go out into the world with open eyes and fearlessly embrace the things you love: the faux crocodile booth you saw at a restaurant, the trees in Central Park, the chaos of a junk shop, a lamp you recall from your grandmother's house. And when you thoughtfully reassemble all these bits of inspiration into you home, then your home will be a reflection of who you are.
Bob and Cortney looked to artist Luke Dubois and his computer-altered video of 50 iconic Hollywood kisses, fashion designer Norma Kamali, NYC nightclubs, and functional restaurant seating for inspiration in this space — and then added a glittery sprinkling of Wendy Williams to top it off.
Personally, I ate this room up like a pack of Pop Rocks because I'm putting my house on the market in a few months and every design decision I make lately is geared toward making it a bland, blank slate to appeal to the masses. So a photo booth, a DJ booth, faux crocodile ottomans with built-in Jolly Rancher storage, and clumps of flowers hanging from the ceiling made me so happy that I know something sweet and hot pink seeped into my subconscious to make a modified reappearance in my future home.
(Images: Matthew Williams)
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Meh...
no thanks. Not my thing at all.
Don't know who Wendy Williams is, so can't comment on the suitability of the space, but for me, the only thing I like at all is the front surface of the DJ booth -- that assemblage of weathered wood is pretty nice.
I just don't get these folks. The design is awful.
I wouldn't mind a DJ booth, would be playing in it all the time. Why watch tv when you can DJ?
I don't get this, either. It looks like a bunch of college interns did it.
Awful. Looks cheap. I totally don't get it. Sometimes - sometimes, I like what they do, I appreciate their creativity, Unfortunately, their design plans often feel unfinished and temporary.
Looks like what a moldy basement with dj equipment. You'd definately need the jolly rancher sugar high to be able to endure the area for longer than 2 spins of a single song.
While I usually like their work, I have to say that there is something so wrong about using jolly ranchers in this design. Jolly ranchers are colorful, yes, but the wrappers obscure the candy and the effect is totally lost. Perhaps kisses would have been better? (just the ones in plain silver wrappers) Also, I cannot tell from the photo how deep the candy well is but celebrities probably won't eat jolly ranchers and Wendy is going to have a lot of old gooey JRs stuck in there after awhile. I probably would have used granola bars or better yet, from a design and a glycemic index standpoint, nuts. That would also set a better example for children who are exposed to this program and might think candy in furniture is "cool". (can you say cavities? obesity epidemic?)
i thought it was awesome!!! very diva glam!!!
ps. its just a waiting area for the audience inside a huge studio. i don't think it was supposed to be serious...just fun.
I saw the show, and although I don't always love the Novogratz's final aesthetic, I appreciate their creative design ideas. This, however, looked more like a high school girl's basement decorated for her sweet sixteen birthday party. Maybe that's what they were going for.
I see your point, O Rilley. Do you think that if they had filled the ottomans with, say, bran flakes rather than Jolly Ranchers that the design would have successfully achieved a dual goal of boosting audience spirit as well as audience dental hygiene?
I too had an eyebrow raised to this post... until I saw the ottoman. Yes.