Sometime soon, Questlove will be hosting friends horizontally. The drummer, D.J., and Oscar-winning director is one of many design aficionados making the conversation pit\u2014the sunken lounge that became popular in the mid\u201320th century\u2014the centerpiece of their new homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s designed to feel like his personality: warm, inviting, and unexpected, but with an element of surprise,\u201d says interior designer Nicole Fuller. For Questlove\u2019s house, currently under construction in Dutchess County, New York, she has created a red, texture-rich pit inspired by the fashion designer Halston, with rich Italian velvets, a high-pile alpaca rug, and satin pillows. \u201cIt\u2019s less about formal rows of seats and more about creating a relaxed, shared moment,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometime soon, Questlove will be hosting friends horizontally. The drummer, D.J., and Oscar-winning director is one of many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,16647,16648,16649,16650,366,16651,18,117,16652,16653,19,16654,17,16655,16656,16657,16658,1150,16659,16660,16661],"class_list":{"0":"post-18991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-bonnie-stevens","13":"tag-casa-alfrez","14":"tag-conversation-pits","15":"tag-conversation-pits-instagram","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-dune-sofa","18":"tag-eire","19":"tag-entertainment","20":"tag-hakka-guesthouse","21":"tag-hayley-peppin","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-interior-design-trends","24":"tag-ireland","25":"tag-nicole-fuller","26":"tag-pierre-paulin","27":"tag-quest-love","28":"tag-quest-love-house","29":"tag-tiktok","30":"tag-tiktok-design-trends","31":"tag-yasmine-ghoniem","32":"tag-ysg-studio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}