Designers and their Showrooms

The only thing wrong with these designer rooms is that real people live in them. And real people are messy, and cannot really have places that look this way unless they have servants or are neat freaks such as Felix Unger of the classic "Odd Couple" TV show.

Some architects get into the act, and one of the first was Frank Lloyd Wright. He designed some of  the furniture for some of his houses and everything had to be just so...he threw conniption fits if one of his clients decided to try moving things around a little.

Those old mansions with the pristine grand rooms also had these warren like little rooms for all the servants they needed. In fact, I saw the layout for a classy penthouse in an older building on East 34th Street that has small servants rooms stuck way up at the top...imagine them coming down some morning after a "fabulous" party ( not even one on a "Gatsby " scale, and seeing all their work cut out for them..

But after all , the sort of people who were servants were not assume to have the same sensitivities as the better off people who employed them...