Interiors >> Bar Carts Pt. III

As I've discussed before, I really love a good bar cart or tray in a home.  They just give the feeling that you're always ready for company and a good time.  Here, four examples of really lovely styling mixing the bar elements with art, both propped, for a more ad hoc look, and properly hung, for a more formal effect.

Lonny Mag

Thom Felicia

Miles Redd

[Past bar cart posts
here and here]

LustList >> Bar Carts Pt. II

More bar cart and tray eye candy... 

Above, an image from Tiffany Table Settings.  Bonus points for the fact that it's in front of a bookshelf with art hung over it!  It's a triple-point lustlist item.

Eddie Ross

Scot Meacham Wood's apartment (aka tartanscot)

See the bar tray, right in the middle of the arrangement?  Also, look closely-- that is a mirror behind the sofa (I thought at first that somehow there was another room back there!), and that is a trompe l'oeil curtain swagged over it.  Clever.

by Richard Lowell Neas, via Peak of Chic

LustList >> Bar Carts

In addition to fireplaces and bookshelves, a good bar cart or tray is, in my opinion, a real asset to a room.  It just makes any room feel like it's ready for a good time.  Any time.  Someone stops by, you want them to stay and visit for a spell, you're ready. 

Above, Valentino posing in front of his bar tray.

 

Robert Passal

Yves Saint Laurent's library, 1972.  This whole scenario looks read for a party.

 

The bar trays at the office in Mad Men are essential to the ambience.

  

The bar cart keeps this sophisticated room by David Jimenez from feeling too buttoned up, but underscores the masculinity.

  

Love this image, I've had it forever, and still don't know who it's by.