{"id":94396,"date":"2025-08-24T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94396\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:51:09","slug":"conversation-pits-are-the-hottest-interior-design-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94396\/","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":94397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,55248,49,48,55249,55250,55251,356,55252,75,55253,55254,29643,55255,55256,55257,55258,1059,55259,55260,55261],"class_list":{"0":"post-94396","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-bonnie-stevens","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-casa-alfrez","15":"tag-conversation-pits","16":"tag-conversation-pits-instagram","17":"tag-design","18":"tag-dune-sofa","19":"tag-entertainment","20":"tag-hakka-guesthouse","21":"tag-hayley-peppin","22":"tag-interior-design-trends","23":"tag-nicole-fuller","24":"tag-pierre-paulin","25":"tag-quest-love","26":"tag-quest-love-house","27":"tag-tiktok","28":"tag-tiktok-design-trends","29":"tag-yasmine-ghoniem","30":"tag-ysg-studio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}