Photography by Jane Beiles.
A room with lilac as the hero colour could easily feel delicate or childish or languid. But not this Manhattan bedroom designed by D2 Interieurs. Much of that is down to how the walls evoke the inside of a geode or a mountain of violet chalcedony. The organic violet swoops and the complementary coral and golden swirls are all the more sophisticated for not being precisely centered vis-à-vis the bed.
The magnificent murals aren’t the only element obscuring that this is, at its heart, an unremarkable box of a room. The sinuous shape of the bed also detracts from the room’s right angles; ditto the ovals of the nightstand drawer fronts and the round ceiling fixture.
While that particular fixture isn’t to my taste, it contributes a layer of, dare I say, fluffy texture to the space, just as the shag carpet does and those fringed throws do. (I can all but feel how sumptuous the throws are!) The shades, the bed’s upholstery, and the sheets offer a crisper woven texture, with the sconces and nightstands contributing a dash of sleekness. The layers of texture make it easy to forget that the palette is actually quite curated.
The way the brass of the sconces accentuates the golden accents of the mural… perfection!
According to D2 Interieurs’ Instagram feed, this is a girl’s bedroom. (You can see the rest of the apartment here, by the way.) I hope the girl doesn’t become a moody teenager who tacks pictures of her favourite bands, films, and footballers all over those walls as did the moody teenager I once was. (By the time I moved out of my parents’ home, my bedroom walls were more holes than plaster.) Then again, I’d like to think that if I’d had a bedroom this glorious, the thought would never have crossed my mind.
I read posts like this from @DesignerX to remind me words like geode, sinuous, and languid exist. Reading this veers me away from the jargonistic words I use far too often to describe corporate America’s doings. Things like, “As a consumer-focused, insights-driven company, we produce, market, distribute and sell a diversified portfolio of well over 500 beer and other malt beverage brands.” That sinuously, languid multidimensional geodesic prose is how Anheuser-Busch describes what they do. Translation. They, “Sell beer.”
Am I doing this right?