Ask Vicente: Ribbon Chair

From: Mary Hayes
To: info
Subject: Ask Vicente

Ribbon Chair Hello Vicente,

What talent you have. I would so appreciate your advice. Attached is a photo of what I have to work with in my living room. The ribbon chair is mixed in a room with traditional bookcase and desks. Could you please suggest a style and color for a large sofa and two chairs and also a coffee table. Sofa would be opposite an ivory brick fireplace and the chairs perhaps placed in front of the fireplace opposite the sofa. The rest of the house has grey porcelain tile on the floors and tan and white walls/furnishings. Thank You!

Mary

Vicente Responds:

Mary – try to place the desk in another part of the house. The mixture of the bookcase and the chair is okay, but the two pieces together start to overwhelm it. For upholstery of the sofa and club chairs, try to find one fabric that is much more classic and the other one to have more of a midcentury feel to it. I think the ribbon chair is like an accessory in the room – the color have nothing to do with what you’re saying the rest of the house is, but think of a dark tone for the sofa, a medium tone for the club chairs and consider reupholstering the ribbon chair in maybe the tone of the tile.

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#1 by Jaime @ DOXA on December 16, 2009 - 1:12 pm

I have always wanted to upholster the ribbon chair in a heavy gauge cotton Fortuny, how nice that you answer these questions for your readers!

Happy holidays,
Jaime

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#2 by Mary on February 4, 2010 - 3:34 am

Thank you so much for answering my question. To think of the ribbon chair as an accessory was just the brilliant suggestion I needed to get started. I followed your advice – dark tone sofa (charcoal grey), mid-century chairs. The result is quite gorgeous. We are such lucky readers.