Wowzers! A bedroom. That is pretty palatial. You would never need to leave.

I always wonder about so much seating in the bedroom.

@palimpest - I suppose some like an audience!

I hope he paid his help well. I would not want to be dusting all those tchotchkes and such.

If I had PRO next to my name, I'd say "heavy and dated." But I'm not, so I'd just say I'm jealous.

I've said it before, but my mother had a friend who had a dedicated "object" cleaner, separate from her housekeeper. The woman started in one room, dusted/cleaned each item on the shelf, worked her way through the house and started over again in an endless cycle. There was mostly museum quality stuff, so she was well paid for this boring and Sisyphean task.

Toooo much. To me it is messy looking.

Hmmm ... good to know about object cleaners. My housekeep has a hard time with the concept of moving objects to dust around them and then dust the object. She is sweet, and cleans everything else perfectly, but not objects.

I'm not sure why I remember this, probably reading too much about Bunny Williams and her friends and neighbors lol. Oscar de la Renta and his first wife bought the house, in Connecticut, in the early 70s. It was a 1930s Colonial Revival or something similar. His wife died about 10 years later, and a few years later he married his second wife Annette, who had a much nicer country house but he didn't like it lol. Since he wouldn't leave his house, and he wouldn't agree to tear it down as his new wife wanted, he decided to build her a new, bigger and better bedroom. IIRC she uses it as a bedroom, library, and living room. I get a kick thinking about a room like that in what used to be a New England clapboard house.

Rita, if I lived closer, I'd go halfsies on an object cleaner with you!

Absolutely gorgeous room, but not really done as a bedroom-style sitting room. I'm betting this is a master SUITE, and the bed is in another room.

Anglo, the bed is off to the top right of the picture, if I'm remembering this correctly. I'll see if I can find a more complete version of this picture.

One last view of the bedsit : ) , in the other direction from chijim's original photo,

In one way, I like how the bookcases turn to make an alcove for the bed. In another way, it seems to make the bed too...important. If you have that much seating, then you have guests, and I don't want my bed set apart like a throne. If I need that much room for guests, I'd want pocket doors or at least a curtain drawn across the sleeping area.

also noticing that...she needs more bookcases. There are books everywhere.

Bookcases are mentioned in a lot of articles about their house. She does have lots of books, and bookcases too. But maybe not enough lol. She had some added to the dining room in the Connecticut house.

I believe the bedsit is apart from the regular house, connected by an orangery, so it seems like its own "destination", which might explain the seating. I can see if she had good friends over, that she would entertain them in the bedsit.