The chaises are covered in a raspberry coloured polycotton mix, and they are accompanied by cushions in candy stripes. The wing chairs have certainly served their purpose, and were orginally made to my order more than twenty years ago, during which time they have been re-covered five times, and travelled from Hong Kong to Edinburgh to Bangkok. Could they perhaps be the world's best-travelled wing chairs? Their new owners work at the Raffles Design Institute, so it is conceivable that they may end up being re-covered again as a project for a student in interior design.
Whilst I am sad to see them go, my tendency to be almost horizontal during my television viewing, means that the new design is much more suitable. This change has also meant other changes, as is usual. The Georgian galleried tables that were used with the wing chairs have now been transferred to the sitting room, replacing the pair of perspex tables that housed an obelisk in one and an armillary in the other. These perspex tables are now either side of the chaises, handy for those essentials, like cocktails, TV remotes, DVDs and reading glasses.
The new scheme is much more minimalist, and will doubtless take time to get used to. Since these original pictures were taken, when the room was first decorated, there has been a rearrangement of pictures, so that there is a grouping of architectural prints above the bed, and a large oil painting by the Thai artist Mitree Parahom, which was partially obscured by the wing chairs. It may be that it will be changed with the other large oil painting in the hallway. Like most decorators, I find schemes need to be bedded down, (pun intended, as it's a bedroom), and changing ideas is an exercise I find quite enjoyable.
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