{"id":1763,"date":"2008-11-14T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T11:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2008-11-13T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T14:19:00","slug":"bloody-awesome-dining-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Awesome Dining Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dexterchair-131x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dexter Chair\" title=\"Dexter Chair\" width=\"131\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><I>Metropolitan Home<\/I> Magazine recently did a &#8220;Showtime House&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointclickhome.com\/decorating_design\/articles\/house_hollywood_built\">feature<\/a>, asking designers to decorate rooms in themes inspired by various Showtime series: <I>The Tudors<\/I> living room, <I>Weeds<\/I> lounge, and so forth.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointclickhome.com\/showtime\/dexter\">dining room<\/a> had a <I>Dexter<\/I> theme, featuring blood spatter-embroidered chairs, gory plates, and fingerprinted glassware.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Setting the mood are Amy Lau&#8217;s chairs, elegant, wounded and slashed; the clean, protective plastic tablecloth; the blood vials centerpieces. The table is surrounded by Steven Antonson\u2019s candlesticks, reminiscent of vertebrae and filled with blood red candles, they easily fit a murderer\u2019s grip. Sip fine wines from Thomas Fuchs\/Otium designed glassware with luminous &#8216;blood -filled&#8217; stems and ominous fingerprints. Chose your weapon. Savor the delectable dinner while challenged by Steve Butcher&#8217;s dismembered flatware, a fascinating and disturbing set. Nadeige Choplet&#8217;s handmade ceramic plates celebrate the love of blood via an intricate pattern of blood splatters, veins and capillaries under a delicate porcelain skin; and finally dessert can be enjoyed on Klein Reid&#8217;s fine porcelain, served with the fine trace of a fingerprint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The designer, Amy Lau, has also made a few of the pieces used in the model room available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spring3d.net\/\">Spring3D<\/a>.  Unsurprisingly, they&#8217;re fairly pricey&#8211;$2500 for a chair, for example&#8211;but they might be useful to get your own creative juices flowing.<\/p>\n<p>The ultramodern design scheme is something that tends to underrepresented in gothy decorating, so if your tastes run in that direction this might be good inspiration for your own home.  I&#8217;m impressed with how effective the blood-red accents are against the mostly-white interior.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Home Magazine recently did a &#8220;Showtime House&#8221; feature, asking designers to decorate rooms in themes inspired by various Showtime series: The Tudors living room, Weeds lounge, and so forth. The dining room had a Dexter theme, featuring blood spatter-embroidered chairs, gory plates, and fingerprinted glassware. Setting the mood are Amy Lau&#8217;s chairs, elegant, wounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}