This is Part III of Rooms I Love from the 2023 Kips Bay Palm Beach Decorator Showhouse. Ahh, aubergine and the Welcome Bar, I don't know which I love more. This amazing space at the showhouse is the masterpiece of Errez Design Studio. Their design philosophy is to treat interiors as biographies - creating spaces that are an extension of their client's self-expression.
The Welcome Bar can be found at the top of the guest staircase in this showhouse, and this design team grabbed you from the first step. I am loving this concept of a welcome bar to the guest quarters of a home. It's like the exclamation point to the welcome the guests received at the front door! And the coziness of this space tells its visitors to stay awhile, a long while.
The curves of the sofa give me the feel of floating musical notes and its solid lavender upholstery and patterned pillows the perfect song against the textured walls, the dancers in the art above in harmony with it all.
Subtle stories of journeys taken told by the accessories are the perfect complement to this fantasy room. My favorite? The busts at the bar, all decked out in their seashell finery bring a smile to my face. I'm envious of the person who played dress up with them.
The mirrored backwall at the bar captures a reflection of a fabulous light fixture installed on the ceiling that highlights the rippling effect of the mirrored tile. This treatment is repeated in the guest stairway with an added under sea art installation that provides the opening chapter of this beguiling space.
The many shapes in this space, like the winding staircase that leads up to the welcome bar are in sync with each other. A room that says you can go anywhere your dreams take you.
Talk about a defining moment! The Welcome Bar at the 2023 Kips Bay Palm Beach Decorator Showhouse brought it, and I picked up what they were putting down. And thanks for yet another new vocabulary word I learned from this experience, "biographical design."
Be inspired!
Sources: Errez Design Studio, Veranda, Architectural Digest, Instagram, Nickolas Sargent Photography
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