Talk about a bull in a china crystal shop! Predictable comment I know but even though I tried to resist (and I really did) it was just the white elephant in my mind and begging to be said 
Anyhoo, recently when I was running all over NYC looking for design ideas for my itsy bitsy shoe box (size six and a half ) apartment, I found myself in the Design Centre on 59th. Now for those that don’t know this infamous institution, this building is a labyrinth of floors and stores, stocked to the gills with everything decorative. Seriously! Paints, wallpapers, lighting, furniture, blinds, fabrics …everything a girl could want to pretty up her place. And it is a HUGE 14 floors tall so it is absolutely impossible to get through everything in one day. In fact it took me three days and that was rushed cos I was running out of time. I guess you could say it’s a bit like the Met but for Interior Designers
Tinerate, one of my last explorations found me in this ice cool crystal palace. Unreal isn’t it? Just think how fragile this lot would be and how careful one would need to be. No getting untidy over a few red wines at this table thank you very much. Nooo … this is precious personified Oy Vey, guess it’s best if one doesn’t expect to have a smashing time
But in all seriousness, I actually thought these tables exquisite. I am not sure I would ever present a total crystal tablescape but I do love the shimmer and shine that the crystal throws up. No need for candles with all this gorgeous glimmering light reflection. Just imagine if the sun was coming in the window; now that would def be a call for the sunnies!
For me, this is a very delicate feminine but old Hollywood look. I can sooo imagine the classic divas of yesteryear seated around this table, each forced to dine with arch enemies by the studio that owns them, expressions of thinly veiled hostile contempt written all over every powdered face. One long red nail tap tap tapping in irritation as much towards the empty martini glass that sits before her (just how was she supposed to get through this without a cocktail!) as her agent for not being able to get her out of it. Isn’t that what she paid him for??? Ooo, the drama that this table provokes
Tinerate, I am just loving the over the top extravagance of this table. There is so much going on with the grand chandeliers and exquisite dinnerware that anything else is completely uncalled for.
Add a bit of coloured crystal and a floral in the same hue and the tablescape is taken to a new dimension. I can so see the modern day lady-who-lunches quite happily sitting down to a long lunch here.
Anyhoo, all too spectacularly pretty …
Till next time.
Tipsy Pipsy xo