Metropolitan Home's Showtime House in New York
As part of a month long, groundbreaking print and television partnership, a celebrated group of designers will transform a beautiful Gramercy Park townhouse into a luxurious beacon of modernism inspired by the top six original hit series from Showtime
Amy Lau design is creating a DEXTER dining room experience, down to every last detail, collaborating with many talented artists and designers with special editions being made available exclusively through spring design&art
The room features a table ready for a sit down dinner for twelve. Curious of what it could be like to eat with Dexter? This is not about what will be served, it is all about how to savor it... the table is set to play with our senses. Setting the mood are Amy Lau's chairs, elegant, wounded and slashed; the clean, protective plastic tablecloth; the blood vials centerpieces. The table is surrounded by Steven Antonson’s candlesticks, reminiscent of vertebrae and filled with blood red candles, they easily fit a murderer’s grip. Sip fine wines from Thomas Fuchs/Otium designed glassware with luminous 'blood -filled' stems and ominous fingerprints. Chose your weapon. Savor the delectable dinner while challenged by Steve Butcher's dismembered flatware, a fascinating and disturbing set. Nadeige Choplet'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's fine porcelain, served with the fine trace of a fingerprint.
All this is presented under the sensual lighting by Grégoire Abrial of Amy Lau Design, a baroque cacophony of wine glasses and pure white; and surrounded by fantastic works as Jane D'Arensbourg's Coronal Section, the glass installation reminiscent of flowing organic cells and brain patterns; and Angelica Bergamini's elixir of life an airy curtain that truly gives life to the light that floods the room.
