This is designer's Gilles Mendel's Manhattan living room:
Call me heretical but I find this dull and corporate. I hate the wall-mounted sitting on the left, dislike the occasional chairs on right. Nothing in this space invites, and even the flowers look fake. It is tasteful, and it looks and I'm sure feels expensive (the 'rug' made from dark-gray calfskin) and it leaves me utterly cold.
Not even the tiniest twinge of envy.
