Fashionable Friday : Tousled and Tasselled
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| {Fashion and fluffballs illustration : Tousled and Tasselled © Shell-Sherree} |
My present coffee table and I will be having a 'conscious uncoupling' soon. It's served me well but I never really loved, loved, loved it ~ and from here on in, I'm all about choosing what I love, love, love. {Kale should be on that list but unless it comes in macaron form ... enough said.}
Given I put my feet up on my coffee table whenever I'm on the sofa, a buttoned ottoman is gaining traction. And it's softer on paws for landings. There's the slight matter of the unofficial 'scratching post' status that might be forced upon it, but that's what tassells and fringes were invented for. What goes on under a fringed skirt stays under a fringed skirt.
So come, sit a while and we shall debate the virtues of a pink-and-lilac-veined Italian white marble-topped gilt legged coffee table ~ not that I've really given it a thought ~ versus a luscious fairy-floss-pink tufted ottoman worthy of an empire. Hugh: Please grind the arabica beans and fire up the cezve. Grazie, bello! And on that note ...
Happy Fashionable Friday to you !
Definitely a buttoned ottoman. I have an eye on one myself, now that I've finally given up on my dream of a coffee table in carved gilt with glass top. Europe used to be full of them but now they are all in the USA. But perhaps a gilt and glass tray to put on it, with drinks. You'll be having drinks?
ReplyDeleteMise, how fortunate we live in different continents as I fear we would be bidding on the same gems if they bobbed up !! A gilt and glass tray for drinks will be essential and a wonderful idea. And a few candles can reside there, too. Excellent, thank you !
DeleteThe comfort of an ottoman sounds good, but where will you put your champagne flute?
ReplyDeleteI'll bet Mr. J knows he's our mascot.
You and Mise are thinking along the same lines, Petrea ~ and wisely so !! You know me well. As for Mr J, I hear he is working his upcoming tour schedule around us. So kind !
DeleteI trust you'll post an illo of this fab piece of furniture when you've found (and purchased) it. But tired tootsies (clean and pedicured, natch, though I imagine you might make an exception for our Hugh) will be allowed on it, I hope.
ReplyDeleteP.S. — I like to think Petrea is right.
I hope so, Alexa! Surely someone on his staff googles him occasionally. And I mean that in the professional sense.
DeleteI will indeed post an illo once procured, dear Alexa !! And Hugh can climb up and dance on it any time he pleases.
DeletePPS: I hope Petrea is right, too. I'm going to his Brisbane show ~ frankly, I'm not sure I'll make it through without embarrassing myself in some way !!
I actually had a a 'pink-and-lilac-veined Italian white marble-topped gilt legged coffee table' that I inherited from my grand Aunt Blanche. Along with the stained Persian rugs - courtesy of her 7 chihuahuas. I wish I could give it to you,.
ReplyDeleteWow. To think I could have had such a table pre-loved by someone named Blanche. And your grand aunt, no less. Thank you for wishing you could magic it up for me, PA ~ you're very kind.
DeleteLooking forward to an illo of your new table (and anything that happened to find its way to your home)...
ReplyDeleteI've promised my present coffee table to someone, Ms M, so my quest has a little more urgency now. An illustration will be forthcoming when resolved, for sure. ;)
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