Here I am atop the roof of the Hotel Metropole with Monaco's casino in the background. Belle Epoque brilliance!
I have been zipping about Monaco and lapping up the principality like so much rose wine. Prince Albert’s wedding is coming up in July, so the country is really buzzing and scrubbing itself up for its big day.
But more on my travels later…
A new subscriber asks, “Why orange welting on your dining room chairs?”
So here’s a little about why we use welting and what makes welting such a magical element for us. We love details, whether they be chairs that feature one pattern upon the front and another upon the back or a console that we have lacquered in two contrasting shades. It’s the details that really make an interior sing.
Welting takes a lovely fabric and highlights it, makes it “pop.” And you can really have fun with welting and shoot for the stars. If you have multiple dining chairs, why not use the same fabric on each chair but change out the welting. The chairs will look like a million bucks, and the various weltings will keep the eye engaged and certainly generate interest and conversation. Welting is a good way to take something pretty and give it PIZZAZZ.
Enough talking, here are images of spots where we have incorporated welting into our designs. Maybe this will inspire you to incorporate welting the next time you have a pillow done up or you reupholster a chair or sofa.
Have fun: There really are no rules with welting.
Check out how the orange welting and orange buttons take this chair from simple to snazzy and sublime. Details, folks, details!
See how the red welting really sets off the fabric on this chair? And it brings the red lacquer finish onto the upholstery.
Here's Weenie asleep atop an elegant slipper chair that boasts yellow buttons and yellow welting. The welting is an exclamation mark that makes you really take notice of the chair's delicious lines.
Tags: chairs, Monaco, reader question, travel, upholstery, Welting
You do look dashing in your Monaco photo! I Are you wearing Creed? Oh no, Creed… that would be [What is] James [Wearing] in his “Tom Ford Era” Gucci shirt to match the verdigris on the dome behind him. Monaco also makes me think of that fabulous Brooklyn dandy, E. Berry Wall.
I hope that you are having a marvelous time in Monaco. You are missing a glorious week in Brooklyn. All of the flowering trees are in full bloom. The magnolias are especially magnificent this year.
So, my kick-ass homemaker, I did not mean why welting. I meant why orange with the fabric that appears by photo to have no orange. The accent color pop accent idea I get. I was asking for a tutorial in choosing a color that is outside the primary fabric’s color palette without creating a whimsicalamity. For the record, I think orange and pink are a winning. combo.
p.s. Prince Albert just makes me giggle. I can be so immature.
Just ignore the random I and period.
Carnal Flower, baby. That’s my signature fragrance.