{"id":3870,"date":"2007-10-02T20:05:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2018-03-05T00:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T08:05:31","slug":"barbarella-sofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/furnishings\/barbarella-sofa\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbarella Sofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collect vintage interior design\/decorating books, and a particular favorite I found at a university library sale: <em>Bloomingdale&#8217;s Book of Home Decorating<\/em>, published in 1972.  The first picture you see as you flip through its sepia tinged pages is of a sunken living room, resembling a cave, with white fur covering almost every surface, from the floor to the walls to the ceiling.  It&#8217;s so far over-the-top that I love it, that is what was so fun about decorating in the Seventies!<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise as I was shopping around this morning to find this amazing sofa from cheeky design firm Moooi.  If you happen to have a sunken living room, I highly suggest you purchase this sofa in conjunction with several yards of faux fur to complete this designer look.  The link below provides some inforamtion with more to come.<\/p>\n<p>A look at the cover shot for Bloomingdales Book of Home Decorating:<\/p>\n<p>  Anyone else think the &#8220;window&#8221; looks trompe&#8217;loie?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collect vintage interior design\/decorating books, and a particular favorite I found at a university library sale: Bloomingdale&#8217;s Book of Home Decorating, published in 1972. The first picture you see as you flip through its sepia tinged pages is of a sunken living room, resembling a cave, with white fur covering almost every surface, from [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[115,131,163],"tags":[761],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40244,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/40244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}