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Designer Robert Couturier's Living Room
from House & Garden, September 1990. |
In Robert Couturier's Living Room in his own NYC apartment, the curtains play a large part of the success of the room. Filled with a mix of stylish continental antiques from the 18th, 19th, and 20th-centuries, an Aubusson rug grounds the arrangement. Three tiers of white, hinged bi-fold, louvered shutters provide light control and privacy in the bay window that would otherwise dominate the room if the eye had not been stopped by the billowing effect of the curtains. Panels of taffeta hang by tabs of the same fabric from a steel rod accented with brass finials, support posts, and large tie-back rosettes.
Imagine the same room without the curtains to realize the importance of that feature. Although it is not the type of room usually seen in magazines today, it still has validity after 25 years. More posts in the Curtain Master series will follow with a series of un-consecutive series of posts by
The Devoted Classicist.
