Okay, the intense color of designer Muriel Brandolini's home dining room (circa 1999) doesn't really need much by way of description: pinks, reds, oranges and yellows - and enough pattern to keep your eyes busy for hours. Beyond the brave exercise in color, we are mostly curious about a bed in the dining room. The red lacquer four-poster bed was placed just behind the dining table so that "one can recline after supper."
Do you think this idea ever works? Unless you live in a very small space, do you think dining and reclining should coexist?
(Image scanned from the book New York Living by Lisa Lovatt-Smith, 1999.)
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Comments (16)
ummm...awesome
Ick !
I live in a small space, so I have a daybed near my dining table. However, if I had an abundance of square footage, I would either a) "recline" in my bedroom, or b) get a set of large, comfy couches where one would enjoy being comatose after dinner.
This would have made a good "Guess the Decade" photo. I would not have gotten it correct.
I like all the colors, but... my eyes! my eyyyyeees!
It's like I Dream of Jeannie's bottle if she had a dining room.
i love it, but...it's a lot of color
yeh! i said it!
Holy Fuschia!
Opium bed! Yesssss. Opium beds are too small for sleeping, perfect for lounging.
It's too overwhelming....it makes my head hurt!
wow - that is some serious pink!! not for me really, but still a cool picture.
Tabitha @ http://www.fromsingletomarried.com
Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love muriel brandolini...one of my favorite designers
Tom Jones would of liked this dinningroom for sure!
Well, to answer the question, the (wealthy) Romans were always reclining when they had meals, on triclinia.
I quess the meals often ended, well, Roman-like.
So with a luxurious red dining room with a bed placed right next to the table, don't be surprised by your guests' expectations.
i think this might have been featured in vogue way back in the day. i remember loving it, but i also remember that the colors were more intense than they appear in this photo. here, it just looks like a lot of fuschia and nothing else.