20 Places We'd Rather Be Quarantined

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From @archdigestpro: Inspired by the handsomely outfitted Roman military tents of ancient times, tented rooms became fashionable during the reign of French emperor Napoléon I, especially as decorators took inspiration from his army’s successful campaigns in Egypt and elsewhere. One of Napoléon’s field tents, for example, was a fetching combination of blue-and-white-striped canvas on the outside, flowered cotton on the inside, and leopard-spot carpeting. The romance of tented rooms remains potent today. Above, fashion designer @adamlippes and his life partner, @mrfarnsworth, installed a small tented room for hanging out in their Brooklyn Heights apartment, using a Richard Smith print of birds in trees. Learn how tented rooms became design's most comforting—and timeless—decorating device through the link in our profile. Photo by @stephenkentjohnson; text by @adaesthete

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