{"id":90951,"date":"2025-08-23T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90951\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:15:09","slug":"conversation-pits-are-the-hottest-interior-design-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90951\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation Pits are the Hottest Interior Design Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>\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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,67474,67475,67476,67477,460,67478,134,67479,67480,67481,67482,67483,67484,67485,101,67486,67487,67488],"class_list":["post-90951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bonnie-stevens","tag-casa-alfrez","tag-conversation-pits","tag-conversation-pits-instagram","tag-design","tag-dune-sofa","tag-entertainment","tag-hakka-guesthouse","tag-hayley-peppin","tag-interior-design-trends","tag-nicole-fuller","tag-pierre-paulin","tag-quest-love","tag-quest-love-house","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktok-design-trends","tag-yasmine-ghoniem","tag-ysg-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}