Is This Dining Room Too Glitzy For Your Tastes?
We face off with a Sydney dining room’s designer to see how our aesthetic assessment stands up against his intention. Feel free to play along
Our Design Assessment
When we first saw this dining room, designed by Greg Natale for a home in his native Sydney, Australia, we immediately approved. It’s not easy to make those tragically hackneyed Hans Wegner Wishbone Chairs look new, but Mr. Natale has done so by coating them in blue paint, and ranging them around a solid black Restoration Hardware table that’s so imposingly chunky it throws the chairs’ lithe, overfamiliar curves into a lovely contrast. Also playing against the bull of a table: the painterly, cloudlike carpet pattern, a custom-colored version of one of Mr. Natale’s creations for Designer Rugs. Its...