via THEY DON'T CALL THEM LOVERS IN HIGH SCHOOL, LEELAND (NSFW, unless you work for purple fashion or for yourself, like I do now!!)
How amazing is this room? Purple carpet, Louis XV parcel-gilt boiserie, huge red color field and a balloon shade in floral-printed taffeta. It's like an extremely reductivist version of Sao Schlumberger's apartment in Paris -- girlfriend loved this color combo and some flouncy silks!
Back to life, back to reality: do we see a similar shade in a less grandly proportioned/appointed room? Like, in a tract home in Dubuque? They just reek of Dynasty-inspired desperation in small spaces ... like what poor Swan Brooner would wear if she were a window.
I was ready to rule them out altogether but then I saw Mrs. Blandings' interview with multi-hyphenate talent Miguel Flores-Vianna where he mentions the stunning Long Island home of Sills & Huniford -- I couldn't help but notice their library's voluminous ice blue Roman shades. Granted the room is tall enough to require a bookcase ladder and everthing else in it skews butch, but are the shades one more brushstroke in the masterpiece or the only telltale sign of its vintage (1990)? I can't decide.
Back to life, back to reality: do we see a similar shade in a less grandly proportioned/appointed room? Like, in a tract home in Dubuque? They just reek of Dynasty-inspired desperation in small spaces ... like what poor Swan Brooner would wear if she were a window.
I was ready to rule them out altogether but then I saw Mrs. Blandings' interview with multi-hyphenate talent Miguel Flores-Vianna where he mentions the stunning Long Island home of Sills & Huniford -- I couldn't help but notice their library's voluminous ice blue Roman shades. Granted the room is tall enough to require a bookcase ladder and everthing else in it skews butch, but are the shades one more brushstroke in the masterpiece or the only telltale sign of its vintage (1990)? I can't decide.
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"like what poor Swan Brooner would wear if she were a window."
ReplyDeletetoo funny! too true.
The color is particularly delish, but I don't think long, straight panels on an iron rod appeals in the least. You know, the telltale sign of the early 2000s.
ReplyDeleteMy first time visiting the blog. Good luck on whatever you do! Get it boy!
ReplyDeleteThe Sills-Huniford drapes still work because they aren't too precious. There is a drunken roughness to them that is a nice contrast to the lace-like ladder close by.
ReplyDeleteDana: What makes the roughness "drunken"?
ReplyDeleteThe Sills house is actually in Bedford, Westchester County. And the curtains there aren't really balloons shades, are they? I don't know what you'd call them, because they are just window-wide single swags. I've always loved balloon/festoon shades. I've got jury-rigged ones in my dining room, made from old Ballard Designs silk panels (they are held up with fishing line, I kid you not). The room is 8 feet tall, but I've pinned the panels above the windows, right at the ceiling, and the swags are pulled up rather high. It doesn't look goofy (I hope). One day I'll get proper ones made but right now the faked variety does the trick. Nick, I think it's time to reach back into Colefax & Fowler country and freshen it up for today.
ReplyDeleteThese look more Falcon Crest than Dynasty.
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