who said dining had anything to do with eating? part 2

i heart dining spaces for two aspects of their unique aesthetic value, one being

1. simplicity.

and the other being

2. repetition.  nowhere else in your home is it ok to have four to ten exact copies of a single piece of furniture, and dining chairs come in mind-boggling varieties that can add POWWW! to a space.

check out this guy from lonnymag.

brandi-mikkelsen / lonny magazine / dec 2012

ugh.  this room is in denmark and i want to steal it in its BAM-causing entirety.  i could write a ten page white paper dissecting its special brand of awesomeness but will spare you the rambling (for now).

after you take a breath and recover from the gorg, notice that this collection of eight graphic antique chairs is doing heavy lifting in the drama.   picture just one of those chairs standing in a corner all by its lonesome.  if you even picked up on it consciously, you might think, how nice!  you would not think, BAM.

this is LV spring 2013, done nice:

done BAM:

the power of repetition will never fail you.  use it wisely.

like so, perhaps.

noa santos

jill stuart

anisa darnell

thom filicia

so.  simplicity and repetition.  why not take advantage?  it’s tempting to pile stuff into a dining space like you would in other rooms, but the uniqueness of dining room function means having an opportunity to reach a different kind of design perfection.  hit that.