Furnishing a kitsch dining room, with Gothic and Noir tones, is not for everybody. You need a great deal of conviction, character and firmness, because a style like that can be misunderstood. Kitsch style is, infact, only for the people who know how to wear it; as a dress, as an attitude or as a posture. But it can, at the same time, generate intense feelings, sometimes even contrasting, but utterly and terribly strong. Because that's what it does, it plays with opposites and defies vanity.
A kitsch and Gothic style brings the shadows of the past in its shapes, it meets with the modernity of the materials and, in some particular decorations, it comes along with an extreme feminism that excludes the masculine taste and merges with the fascination for dark colours, mystery and an ironic horror. Do you remember the Addams Family?
Well in this kind of style there's a little bit of Morticia, but also a little bit of Audrey Hepburn, thanks to necessary frippery, a strong pictorial elegance and a little bit of sense of humour. Do you want to know what I'm talking about? Do you want to SEE what I'm talking about? Very well, here we go.
A dining room is perfect for this kind of stylistic interpretations, eccentric and out of the ordinary: it's an extremely hybrid zone, often lost between the kitchen, the living room and sitting room, confused inside an open space, hidden in a narrow corner. But with the help of a strong style, as the one we're talking about, it can easily become the protagonist of your house.
So, here it is the main character of a feminine dining room, defined by a quite classical verve, a luxury atmosphere and a touch of "noir". We can compare it to a black widow, eager and vengeful: that's the Cleo sideboard with Swarovski handles and pink ice dream fronts. Just imagine it together with a silver frame and a black chandelier, completing, in this way, the mystery of your dining room.
Another protagonist of a kitsch style dining room are the chairs: with high big backs, that almost give you a sort of reverential awe coming from past ages, or also with a round, oval shape like those frames used in the past to frame old pictures.
Vanilla upholstered chair in steel and leather, with a strong black colour, would be perfect as a throne contrasting the pink colour of the sideboard.
Berta chair from Louis XVI collection in beech solid wood clearly reminds, thanks to the name and material, the period of time stated by its name but not in a strictly way; infact the classic lines are combined with modern decorations and colours, perfectly suitable for a Gothic-kitsch style.
Last but not least, we need a design table, even if in this case it will merely act as a background. For this reason it will be characterized by simple and regular lines, but with one certain detail: it has to be black. Monday Big table with glass top , for example, would be the ideal choice.
