I’m about to bombard you with a series of roundups, because that’s all I have time for. Hopefully they’re good roundups, rather than roundups of pinecone arrangements and shapeless taupe sweaters. These are special obsessions that I have been carefully manicuring for years. It’s taken me quite a while to cull the what-I-really-love wheat from the what-fashion-dictates-I-should-love chaff, but in my golden years I have finally found what truths I hold to be self evident. And if you can follow all that punctuation/aphorism drama, you get a gold star.
So hot on the heels of my quilt love comes another textile that I want to wrap my naked body in and snuggle up with all night long. Even more. I be talking about antique tapestries, y’all. I’m smitten by the muted tones, intricate details, and sense of gravitas they bring to a room.
That just happened. If you aren’t as excited as I am about this, GET EXCITED.
Robert Couturier is and will always be my decorator boyfriend.
See what I mean about spending the night with some tapestries? They’re giving me the bedroom eyes.
Tiny picture, amazing idea. I would definitely rub my nether regions all over a tapestry upholstered settee.
Zoffany’s new tapestry print Arden sports unicorns, by golly! Pure as Lancelot and Guinevere, wink wink, nudge nudge.
Zoffany even makes a tapestry inspired wallpaper. You know you want it in your life. Hot sex.
Sure, I may be a smidgen sleep deprived. But I am right about this — tapestries are awesome.
The end.
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the 4 th pic down has been my screensaver for weeks now! they have this European aged to perfection thing about them that gives a room instant cred. thanks for telling us what you love…ii ahave seen plenty of boxy make-my-skin-look-yellow beige sweaters.
I could for sure get down with some wallpaper. I think I need to check out zoffany again.
If I had a 3rd bedroom I’d try out the tapestry over the bed thing. Some day…
you make a strong case. SOLD. gimme.
also, I think I’m about to paint my dining room the same blue as the shot with the red settee. HOLLA!
also squared, love having you back!
Oh {insert expletive}. This is too much. I thought I had it together, but I’ve lost it completely now. If this is “fetch” I need to make it happen. Good grief! Completely hot sex, pearl clutching, 51 shades of I’ll have everything she’s having—where do I find a tapestry, or rather how do I diy this shiz. SHAZAM!
just saw you’re back! Holler! Welcome back. I’m a let you finish, but I have your previous posts to read:)
That Zoffany wallpaper is awesome and I am stealing the pic.
The chair (loveseat?) makes me think of Sandberg’s Raphaëla:
http://www.sandbergab.se/en/products/textiles/Raphaëla
although using an actual tapestry would probably be cheaper…
Did you get to the Cloisters when you visited NYC? I can’t remember. The unicorn tapestries are like the most wonderful things ever.
some of your photos weren’t loading on my computer…so perhaps you had a few images in there with tapestries that work in reg people’s homes…and they are beautiful…but hard to pull off without amazing architecture or height.
That last pic has me feeling pretty damn hot indeed.
Love this post. Reminded me of Adrienne Vittadini’s gorgeous room featured in Vogue a few years back.
Love that first photo. I tried to duplicate the tapestry look with a pashmina. Lame.