For Christmas I received Jonathan Adler’s coffee table book, 100 Ways to Happy Chic Your Life. I love books like these because it often sparks some new ideas or offers a creative take on design. I thought I would periodically write about some of the 100 Ways to Happy Chic Your Life.
- “It all starts with a conversation pit”.
I think it is only appropriate for the book to start in the living/family room. For me, the living room is often the pulse of the home. Adler puts it best, “Conversation pits are one of the greatest legacies of modernism. I am not the most feng-shui-iest, but these spaces have an energy – a siren call – that draws you in for a moment of relaxed fun: the sine qua non of good design.
Conversation pits are architectural features that involve built in seating often located in a sunken room:
As you can tell from the pictures or history of design, conversation pits were incredibly popular from 1950 to 1970’s. Although, I believe we do have our own modern take on a conversation pits now. Often minus the sunken room and built in furniture but the concept is still the same – it is where people gravitate to in the home to lounge and chat. 
What do you think? Does the home start with a conversation pit?
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