Monday, December 28, 2009

Still Life: We Put the Fur in Furniture



There is no reason that a tasteful charcoal grey cat condominium cannot be considered furniture. It is tasteful, modern; a suitable size to fill that empty space below a window, next to a chair. It could be a footstool. Or a small table.

It makes more sense in a living room than, say, a tree.

And consequently, makes a good deal more sense than a tree that serves as a source of multi-colored illumination.

And, besides, under the right conditions, it positively sparkles with life:




At moments like that, you just have to draw back and take in the bigger picture, see how it all comes together in what we decorator types like to think of as organic space--people, trees, felines, furniture, art--all one fluid assemblage of mutual entanglements.


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