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| vintage ad signed by Nourot |
Did you know that dreams about new rooms in the house are considered to be among some of the most frequent to occupy our nights? That came as a surprise to me though I'm familiar with the idea of the house representing the self - attics for the intellect and basements for the unconscious. I also went through a phase with house dreams that often concerned stairways and passages, but discovering unknown new rooms...? That seems more like a day dream!
Unknown rooms = unknown resources, unknown contentions/threats.
If I could discover a new room in my house
(which is not a house but an apartment - condo doesn't sound right - so I can't really add on at will),
it might be...
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| photo: Antonio Martinelli from Elle Decoration |
1) a jardin d'hiver, veranda, a sun room, a conservatory. Yes, the word counts. Something like this one up on stilts and designed by Eiffel before city planners became so difficult about add-ons.
This is not the way I would furnish it, but the space is delightful.
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photo source to be filled in
furniture by Richard Peduzzi |
2) the true library that haunts me. Now I do realize that this is not the most practical set up and my back would certainly not like the chair, but here in the land of Morpheus, all is possible.
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| Anna Alma-Tadema |
3) or yet again, a fumoir. This sensuous painting, filled with rich surfaces yet not too heavy, has always drawn me in. I was surprised when I saw the actual painting recently to discover how small it was. Still, it's big enough to contain a dream. The notion of a smoking room is old fashioned, quaint, but it gives a pretext for full-blown oriental decor and rich colors, opulent fabrics. The talent of the painter and the polished parquet here assure that the scene has nothing of a musty, static illustration from the annals of decoration. Smoking isn't my fancy, pipe dreams aside, but the tipple from my tumbler would be greatly enhanced in this atmosphere.
For more information on the veranda designed by Eiffel look
here
