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"Lush Velvet Rooms from the Pages of AD\nThe elegant fabric is a timeless choice for upholstery that adds warmth and depth to any room. Browse a gallery of spaces that brilliantly showcase this richly textured material\nThe neutral foundation of the Manhattan living room of antiques dealer Bernd Goeckler is brightened by a pair of 1950s high-backed Italian armchairs covered in a Rose Cumming velvet. Interior designer Carl D'Aquino (of D'Aquino Monaco) limited his use of strong color to the furniture, using auction-house finds and key pieces from the antiquaire's stock. (April 2011)\nBronze equestrian statues and a gilt-wood sofa covered in a velvet from Stark furnish interior designer Jean-Paul Beaujard's Manhattan duplex. The apartment, decorated with early-19th-century France in mind, also features luxurious deep-green velvet curtains. (September 2011)\nAn 18th-century portrait presides over the library of Ralph Lauren's Bedford, New York, residence. The French doors are curtained with a Ralph Lauren Home velvet, and the throw pillows are covered in antique fabrics. \"I wanted something that was a little more English than my other homes, but I still wanted it to feel young,\" says Lauren. (September 2013)\nMaroon 5 front man Adam Levine's rosewood-paneled Hollywood Hills living room features a Dunbar tufted-velvet sofa. The room's curated mix of vintage finds includes a Stilnovo floor lamp and a Jean Prouv\u00E9 cocktail table. \"Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music,\" the singer says. \"You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.\" (March 2012)\nA sculptural sofa upholstered in silk velvet grounds the sitting room of a Jacques Grange\u2013designed London townhouse. An Antony Gormley statue and a Francis Bacon painting overlook the space. \"We didn't want this to feel like a museum but instead to be comfortable. So we arranged the furniture, art, and objects \u00E0 la bohemian chic,\" explains homeowner Terry de Gunzberg. (May 2011)\nA Christopher Hyland tiger-stripe velvet brings a pop of pink to a cool blue-gray family room in Bel Air, California, designed by Kelly Wearstler. The rug was inspired by a scarf owned by Wearstler's mother. (January 2013)\nInterior designer Douglas S. Wittels sheathed a Park Avenue apartment's library's walls, sofa, and chairs in a mocha mohair velvet. A Louise Nevelson maquette is on the side table, and the photographs are by Hiroshi Sugimoto. (January 2008)\n\"It harkens to the lavender mist one sees at sunset over the Central Park reservoir below,\" interior designer Kristin Hein says of the amethyst velvet covering the walls in the master bedroom of an apartment on New York's Upper East Side. (January 2010)\nIn the Kansas City, Missouri, home of Hallmark Cards executive David Jimenez, a velvet-covered Williams-Sonoma Home daybed in the center of the library accesses two seating areas. The chesterfield sofa at right, also upholstered in velvet, is by Ralph Lauren Home. (April 2013)\nMagnificent chandeliers and custom-made club chairs covered in a Clarence House velvet radiate a sense of luxury in the ballroom turned living room of Houston couple Terri and John Havens. The mirrored cocktail table is by Ellouise Abbott, and the rug is an antique Aubusson. (August 2013)\nArchitect Lee Ledbetter designed the large Larsen silk-velvet-clad sectional sofa that defines a sitting area in the New Orleans home of entrepreneur Sidney D. Torres IV. Bronze ceiling lanterns by Herv\u00E9 Van der Straten punctuate the chic black-and-white space. (September 2012)\nVintage cube chairs dressed in parrot-green velvet furnish the Manhattan prewar penthouse of fashion publicist Ed Filipowski and Barneys New York CEO Mark Lee. The couple decorated the apartment themselves, shopping everywhere from Paris's Clignancourt flea market to West Hollywood, California, with Connecticut antiquing in between. (October 2011)\nThe window seat and Joaquim Tenreiro chairs in a Greenwich, Connecticut, home are covered in a rich eggplant-color velvet by Sahco. Interior designer Joe Nahem, who created the space for an art-collecting couple, notes, \"You don't want the interiors to conflict with the art, but you don't want to make them too neutral or boring either.\" (June 2013)\nA vintage Italian light fixture hangs above antique dining chairs upholstered in a Brunschwig &amp;amp; Fils silk velvet in a historic home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. The coffered ceiling was carefully restored during the home's expansion and redesign by architect Marc Appleton and decorator Windsor Smith. (January 2011)\nA deep-purple ottoman covered in a Suzanne Tucker Home cotton velvet brings warmth to the master bath of Don and Rela Gleason. The couple collaborated with Bobby McAlpine of McAlpine Tankersley Architecture on their Napa Valley, California, home. (November 2011)\nMartyn Lawrence Bullard created a bedroom in an Umbrian castle fit for a king. The bed curtains are made of a Holland &amp;amp; Sherry velvet, and the walls are upholstered in a silk damask by Schumacher. (November 2013)\nVeronese velvet covers an ottoman and armchairs in the reading area of the master suite in interior designer Timothy Corrigan's Los Angeles home. \"What I really aim for is comfortable elegance,\" Corrigan says. (April 2012)\nThe Francis D'Haene\u2013designed New York living room of art-world power couple Amy Gold and Brett Gorvy features Vladimir Kagan sofas covered in a Holly Hunt velvet. The cocktail tables are by Silas Seandel, and the photogram at left is by Bruce Conner. (December 2013)\nScalamandr\u00E9 velvet covers the sofa, while velvet by Vervain sheaths the ottomans and armchair in the study of designer Mona Hajj's Baltimore apartment. \"I like to think my rooms have an old-soul manner,\" Hajj says. The 1880 landscape above the mantel brings a sense of history to the handsome space. (September 2010)\nIn the library of a Steven Volpe-designed Bay Area home, a midcentury Italian chandelier by Stilnovo hangs above club chairs by Axel Vervoordt in a velvet from Claremont. The cocktail table is by Joris Laarman, and the mirror above the fireplace is 1950s FontanaArte. (November 2011)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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