Dining Room
Dinner parties are our favorite kind of entertaining, so we naturally wanted a dining room that complemented our style.
Crisp, contemporary, and comfortable yet dramatic. The curvaceous Willow chairs, china cases, and painting by Eyvind Earl soften the crisp rectilinear forms of the room. Carpet by Carla Carstens.
A Willow chair.
The centerpiece lighting is a sculpture by Ingo Maurer called "Oh Mei Ma". It looks something like a lightsail starship. Note the delicate hues coloring the silver leaf paper. These are very hard to photograph but show up beautifully to the unaided eye!
Guests on one side are greeted by the ocean view. In the evenings or at lunch, its often nice to open the French doors and enjoy the breeze.
Diners with their backs to the view can still appreciate the elliptical Nottebohm painting and the glass art in the lighted cabinets.
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Satava jellyfish, a Denali crystal, and our collection of art
glass perfume bottles are displayed in the lefthand china cabinet.
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righthand cabinet contains a Satava vase, and a varied collection
of other art glass pieces.
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The pure classical forms illuminated in the China case niches seem to float in space, and anchor the contemporary design within a more traditional context, warming the room and making it more approachable.
The ellipse is a signature piece for Andreas Nottebohm. I've found it to be a Rorschach test for the soul. Some people find it to be dark and foreboding: the end of the world. Others see it as a birth. Maybe I've been in Santa Cruz for too long, but the lightning bolt centerpiece is always evocative of whales in my mind. The piece is airbrushed onto a steel plate that is parabolic. Interesting sound effects occur if you stand exactly on axis, and those effects, coupled with the amazingly 3 dimensional holographic realism make it a real attention getter.
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