Décor Challenge: A classic Chesterfield sofa must share living space with a screechingly vivid side table. Design pros offer suggestions to bridge the pair’s aesthetic gap
Solution 1
Add airy art to mimic the translucence of the acrylic table. Problematically, the sofa is far more substantial than the H-shaped table by Korean designer Jaehyuk Yang. Monochrome prints of wispy leaves, arranged in a floaty pastiche, relate to both elements. “I wanted the art to feel heavy but light,” explained New York designer Purvi Padia. “A grouping achieves that.”