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Get the Look: Carrie Bradshaw's Creative Crib, the Furniture

Wed, 10/31/2007 - 9:20am by casasugar
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You're not an expert just yet on how to get the look of Carrie Bradshaw's creative crib. Here is a lesson on the leading lady's furniture.

The Furniture:
Carrie’s small apartment is packed with mismatched tables and chairs and dressed with weathered fabrics, and her walls are far from fresh. Everything in it has a flea market feel, so I suggest scouring local second-hand stores, flea markets, and ebay or craigslist. Although her furniture is a mix of different styles, mid-century definitely represents. In her living room area, the main elements are the “Aidan Chair” and the heavy round coffee table. If you’ve got a furniture designer boyfriend, maybe you can snag the chair, which Aidan made from slightly stained and ripped leather from an old Pullman car.

Otherwise, you should look for a “mission style” chair with bentwood/bow arms that’s low to the ground and has plush leather upholstery. Conway couldn’t find the table he was envisioning, one that would be ideal for the SATC ladies to sit around and chat at, so he built it himself. The table is very similar to the three-pronged ones by Vladimir Kagan, except that it has a wooden, not glass, top. Antoine Proulx also makes similar heavy, round, and low to the ground coffee tables that instill the cozy feeling Conway had in mind. Carrie also uses a mid-century credenza with sliding doors to hide her clutter and prop up framed artwork. She stores hundreds of back-issues of fashion glossies on large shelves in her foyer, which nearly reach the ceiling, and she stashes her keys on a low console table next to her front door. She also made her radiator into a bedside table by topping it with a piece of plywood.

Click the images below to see CB-esque products, and stay tuned for more details on how the get this look.

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  • emalove's picture
    emalove
    1

    Again, never really loved Carrie's apt. on SATC...not my decorating style. I DID love the chair that Aidan made her though, it was so nice.

    1 year 5 weeks ago Report Comment
  • rivrchild's picture
    rivrchild
    5

    My mom and I came across a set of coffee/end tables with the same style legs as that table in the middle, and the dealer called them surf-style I think, because of the shape.

    1 year 5 weeks ago Report Comment
  • ishop2much's picture
    ishop2much
    6

    did you see Ivanka Trump's apartment on Oprah???? If you could give tips on how to recreate it, that would be fantastic!!!! Smiling Woohoo =)

    1 year 5 weeks ago Report Comment
  • Pinetree's picture
    Pinetree
    9

    For anyone who is interested, we are the furniture company that built the cherry wood nightstand and the cherry wood console table just inside the front door of Carrie's apartment in the Sex and the City movie. Our company is Pinetree Furniture Makers of Chicago, Illinois. We were thrilled when the studio contacted us to purchase two of our tables to replicate the pieces from the television series. With a few minor modifications, we had Carrie's tables! Needless to say, we are very excited and proud to be a small part of the movie since we were all big fans of the show. It was even more thrilling to see our craftsmanship up there on the big screen!

    Paul Eichenlaub
    www.pinetreefurniture.com

    26 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment

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