The new design of l'hôtel de Vendôme's restaurant, is one of my very favorite sophisticated and chic designs that I have ever seen out of all of my blog perusing, magazine reading, and book buying over the years. This restaurant located in Place Vendome, a very ritzy (no pun intended) place in Paris, has recently hired Michele Bonan, an Italian designer, to revamp it's décor from a "Chesterfield" old world library look to a chic, upscale, Dior-inspired atmosphere.
Can you just imagine meeting some of your friends for dinner here?
Vendome's restaurant embodies the look of an haute couture runway:
sleek ebony tables,
pied-de-poule (houndstooth) 1950s chairs,
dusty pink pillows,
and dove gray velour settees, and let's not overlook the towering white orchids, all with a backdrop of powdery gray panelled walls.
A few other details that are barely visible in these post images is that each pillow is accented with frothy white passementerie (trimming) as well as each of the gray silk window treatment's tiebacks.
In the black étagère in the above image, one may peruse through various books relating to fashion, design, and architecture.
Chanel and Dior are included, bien sûr.
Image 1- via http://www.desingcalendar.com/
Image 2 via http://www.itelegraph.co.uk.com/
Image 3 via www.realtravel.com
Image 4 via www.designonline.com