Conversation Room, March, 2004 at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show, NY

"My Conversation Room" was presented at the 2004 Architectural Digest Home Design Show co-sponsored with Home Portfolio.com. I designed this artsy and comfortable sitting room to surround myself with personal history, favorite objects, art, and sculptural textures. Most importantly, it is a room I would love to sit in with friends talking and even engaging in -prickly - conversation, hence the cactus. The textures I speak of are glass beaded wallpaper behind the sofa, a checked velvet upholstered wall, sensual drapery panels for softness, and a llama wall to wall carpet. Also, I used fabrics in mohair, metallic leather, and faux Persian Lamb in gold. There are concrete pedestals, oxidized steel tables and sculpture, and the cactus, of course. The colorations were all in muted beiges and browns. For gravity I brought in my collection of vintage black and white photography by Andre Kertez and Gary Winogrand, as well as, objects and books, such as a monograph titled - ...It's Still Privileged Art (another cactus). The vintage table lamps, by James Mont and the re-edition Serge Mouille sconces add to the sculptural interplay of shape and texture. This well received room truly presented my philosophy that I am creating sculpture in the form of an interior with aspirations to be art.