Benable — create shareable lists of things you recommend!
E.g., products you love, local businesses, travel recs - you can add anything to a Benable list!
Blue & Copper | A Butterfly-Inspired Vintage Dining Room
18
items Nature's Color Stories / 02. This dining room begins with a real butterfly: the Orange Oakleaf (Kallima inachus), whose open wings show deep blue and bright orange. Those colors, interpreted freely rather than matched, travel into a sunlit cream room...CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped and rotated for the cover layout, colors and wing patterns unaltered.
Sections
3
Art & Meaning
The Gathering Table
Color, Texture & Light
Art & Meaning
The print that gives the room its story, and a frame to hold it.
The heart of this room and a piece from my own shop, KÖK. One blue bowl, an open pomegranate, bread and wheat, and two hands reaching in: a quiet story about sharing a table. Printed poster, frame not included.
The Shared Harvest Art Print
A narrow handcrafted wood frame for The Shared Harvest print, which ships unframed. Choose the 18x24 size for the 18x24 poster; Natural or Light Walnut echoes the warm wood in the room. Made to order.
Handcrafted Narrow Savannah Picture Frame, 18x24
The Gathering Table
A worn wooden table, mismatched chairs and everything that gathers people around it.
A farmhouse table with carved, turned legs and warm brown wood, close in spirit to the aged honey-toned table in the room. A similar alternative; the finish is less weathered.
Fnova 62" Farmhouse Dining Table for 4-6 People, Large Wood Rectangle Kitchen Table Modern Dining Room Furniture with Carved Turned Legs
A classic café bentwood chair in brown. Its curved frame softens the long lines of the table, like the dark bentwood chair in the room. Sold individually.
Commercial Seating Products Bentwood Chair & Reviews
Woven cane back and a cream seat: the light, airy chair of the set. Mix it with darker wood chairs for the mismatched look in the room.
Birch Lane™ Ashia Cane Back Dining Chair & Reviews
Navy velvet on a French-style frame brings the butterfly's deep blue to the table. It is an armchair, so it works best at the head of the table.
Realm French Vintage Dining Performance Velvet Armchair - Navy
A large acacia bowl for the center of the table. Fill it with walnuts, pears or bread, as in the room; the wood repeats the warm tones of the table.
Ironwood Salinas Extra Large Salad Bowl, Acacia Wood
Washed linen with a soft fringe, laid loosely along the table. Choose Off White or Natural for the cream tone in the room. Made to order in Lithuania.
Heavy Linen Table Runner in Various Colors, Hand Made with fringes, Heavy Washed linen, Any Length, Table Linen. Long Table Runner
Rust-orange linen napkins carry the copper side of the palette onto the table, like the folded napkin in the room. Set of four.
Rust Orange Linen Napkins: Softened Cloth, 18x18 inch, Reusable table napkins set
Cobalt blue tumblers that pick up the blue glasses on the table and the deep blue of the wings. These are smooth rather than textured.
Libbey Cobalt Flare Tumbler Glasses & Reviews
Simple stoneware with a thin blue rim, easy to stack on the sideboard like the plates in the room. Sold as a pack of four.
(4 pack) Mainstays Blue Rim Stoneware Dinner Plate, 10.1 in
An unglazed terracotta jug for water or a few branches. Its earthy orange links the table to the rug and the copper tones. Handmade, so each piece varies.
Handmade Terracotta Pitcher|Clay Water Jug|Eco Friendly Farmhouse Decor|Rustic Vase|Non Toxic Clay Carafe|Unique Housewarming Gift|Pottery
Color, Texture & Light
Blue, copper and cream in wood, linen, wool and warm light.
Swirling bands of oak veneer over the table, close in feel to the single sculptural wood pendant in the room. A similar alternative; ships from Germany.
Cozy Swing oak veneer pendant lamp – Scandinavian wooden light, warm glow, Ø44/60 cm, handmade
A hammered bowl for the sideboard: the warm metallic note that gives Blue & Copper its name, echoing the orange of the wings. Metal with a copper finish, not solid copper.
Creative Co-Op Round Hammered Metal Bowl, Copper Finish
A cream ceramic vase with a soft woven texture for a few stems on the sideboard, a calm counterpoint to the blue and copper.
Woven Texture Ceramic Vase, Cream
A distressed blue solid pine cabinet on turned bun feet, close to the chippy blue sideboard in the room. It is sold as a TV stand, but at 35" H x 65" W x 18" D it has the height and depth of a dining buffet, so the top works as a serving surface for ...
Rushville Solid Wood Cabinet, Distressed Blue
A faded ivory rug with soft brick tones, closer to the washed, sun-softened rug in the room. It leans terracotta rather than blue; the blue comes from the sideboard and textiles. Printed rug, 7'6" x 9'6".
Loloi Layla Distressed Rug, Ivory/Brick
A brass arm sconce with a pleated linen-blend shade; hang a pair on either side of the print, as in the room. The shade is white rather than ivory, and it is hardwired.
Brass Armed Wall Sconce with Pleated Shade