You know, my first reaction is that I think for many years you could pick up AD and see rooms like that. The word that comes to mind is, surprisingly, timeless.

Just love this posting -- each room offers lots of design and decor lessons and possibilities to learn ....

Thanks for posting! :) Lovely way to start the day! :)

I wonder whether the owners would mind if I parked a truck out front and had some guys go in to pick up the hall, the library, the chair in picture #3, the bar, the floors....Just beautiful. I've been buying AD at the bookstore for a couple of months now to test it out. So far, it's been a winner, and it's time to subscribe. Thanks for the post.

Oop- forgot picture of the master bdrm

Didnt anyone else think this was not from 2011? I think it could have been from any point in the last 35 years or so

Simply lovely!
And notice that no one seems worried about mixing metals or styles or even if a mostly blue impressionist painting can "work" in a mostly yellow room. I can only see one "pair" in every room...in other words a lack of symmetrical arrangements and most rooms have several different kinds and colors of wood.
Wonderful apartment!
Linda C

Rich and cozy plus a nice balance of feminine and masculine.

I always enjoy your posts chijim. Thanks!

Another big thanks to chijim for taking the time and making the effort to share beautiful, interesting pics with us. Even if one doesn't like the overall look, there is so much to examine and learn from. Eye candy indeed!
Yes, mtnd...could be from many years back!

Be still, my beating heart...

Timeless. Classic. Flawless. Thanks for posting.

I love so much about these rooms even if I would not have put them together the same way. I like contrasting or stained trim and some of the colors don't work adjacent to each other (in the green master br in particular), but that is small potatoes. I can appreciate the aesthetic and would find it simply lovely to wander around in. The furniture is to die for and I am a fan of much of the artwork. I am not very fond of red in my own home, but their materials and artwork is all top notch. The wood furniture is especially amazing and will never be out of style.

My only real criticism is I don't care for the pictures mounted on the mirror. I'd love the mirror and like the pictures, but don't like the effect of them together.

For me, it's not overly layered, there's is some blank space here and there;
thanks for posting the pictures, really lovely.

Layered, but not too over-the-top! Thanks for posting this wonderful apt. - very inspiring.

Beautiful rooms, and I love the use of color. When I was a kid in the 1970's, I'd read the home decor books at our local library, which were already a decade or two old by the time. I remember those draperies and that green in the dining room (combined with the red/orange flowers) from similar photos back then.

Here's my question: in the fourth photo fromt the top, the table beside the sofa looks like it's wearing a dog bed around the base--what is that?

Leafy that is the ONE thing I was wondering about too! What the heck is at the base of that table?

I too love Jim's "layered rooms" posts! Keep 'em coming!

"Here's my question: in the fourth photo fromt the top, the table beside the sofa looks like it's wearing a dog bed around the base--what is that?"

Putting on my magnifying specs and looking at the picture in the magazine, it looks to be some sort of velvet padded foot rest.
I'm wondering if it's a games table?

I wondered if it was some kind of counter weight to enable the table to hold that heavy crystal lamp without tipping.

Anyway, love the apartment.

The least layered of all the rooms you've posted, and one I could actually live in. I don't consider it layered at all as much as just decorated although a little busy with the art in some rooms.
Thanks for posting!

This may be a very large apartment but the one thing I don't care for is the shifts in color from slightly shaded or muddied to pure, to tints, and warms vs. cools. I think the same feel could have been created with a bit more of a relationship between the individual hues. I don't know if I am explaining it right.

Too bad they can't afford a TV.

I really really wish decor magazines would come clean, and help us poor mortals with the TV problem. Show us where it is PLEASE. So I can get a little help figuring out how to deal with mine.

Other than that, fantastic.

The responses are SO interesting because my assumption was that it was decorated...40...50, more years ago and just updated a bit now and then, with these pix as easily 25 years old as new. Or not? Is this look "back" in our realm?

And, yes, I also really like it overall, always have. Among much else to love--the gorgeous vibrant rich, and tasteful color available to anyone with money.

It's a python. If you look closely, you can see where he swallowed a turtle.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

I can appreciate individual aspects of these "layered" rooms, but collectively I would be reduced to a gibber in five minutes if anyone closed the door and left me in there alone. Maybe it's my ADD.

After seeing this, I picked up the issue and I must say all the featured homes/apts this month are amazing, thanks for the heads up Jim.

Now that's the collection of antiques I WISH I had!

I would take every single chair (too bad this isn't a blog give-away!) But particularly the black sofa in #7.

It's so great to see room after room with such wonderful drapes.
Windows the way they should be treated.

thanks chijim!

Love the foyer, but as for the rest---- IMO the king is wearing no clothes :)

Lots of fabulous individual pieces of furniture, fabric, artwork, objets d'art, colors and textures, but honestly.....Versailles looks more liveable. At least it has a door to the outside to get away from it all when necessary.