Your Bloody Dinner

A dinner party set for a serial killer, designed by Amy Lau, for Showtime's design house, this being the "Dexter" dining room, natch. Here, $2500 blood spatter embroidered chairs, gore coated plates, fingerprinted glassware. Also: video. Wherefore art thou, Patrick Bateman? (Via Coolhunting.)

[#1 posted by Lauren O, November 12, 2008 12:19 PM]

That chair looks a bit...menstrual to me. The stain is just on the wrong part of the chair. Actually selling pre-stained chairs might be a nice way to avoid embarrassment should you actually bleed through while entertaining company.

[#2 posted by Habits, November 12, 2008 12:35 PM]

Isn't a big part of Dexter's style that he is always super neat?

[#3 posted by Peaceflag2007, November 12, 2008 12:49 PM]

gross

if you are considering buying this: GIVE YOUR MONEY TO CHARITY

[#4 posted by alisong76, November 12, 2008 12:57 PM]

Tsk. Dexter would never leave blood behind like that.

[#5 posted by highlyverbal, November 12, 2008 1:17 PM]

"Wherefore are thou, Patrick Bateman?"

What does his name have to do with it?

[#6 posted by wolfiesma, November 12, 2008 1:22 PM]

I recently watched American Psycho for the first time, yes, after the children had gone to bed, and I found the overall aesthetic breathtaking. All that clean crisp white on white. Visually stunning. But the plot? Not even a post-feminist could defend that.

[#7 posted by Teller, November 12, 2008 1:40 PM]

I sense a theme.

[#8 posted by i_prefer_yeti, November 12, 2008 2:42 PM]

I'm with you #7

Is bloodsplatter the new steampunk on bb?

[#9 posted by annehammel, November 12, 2008 2:56 PM]

For more showtime design stuff check out www.pointclickhome.com/showtime

[#10 posted by EH, November 12, 2008 3:28 PM]

Wolfiesma: Read the book instead and it may come clearer. It's a parody (to me).

Also: read up on Mary Harron, you might find that she knows exactly what she's doing and that you don't get it. I'm not trying to be combative, just terse. ;)

[#11 posted by jackie31337, November 13, 2008 2:25 AM]

"Wherefore art thou, Patrick Bateman?"

This is one of my language pet peeves. The counterpart to "wherefore" is "therefore".

Wherefore: for what reason or purpose? Why?
Therefore: for this reason. Because.

The famous "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" line is not asking where Romeo is, it's asking why he has to have the name he does (specifically his last name, which makes him an enemy of Juliet's family).

[#12 posted by jackie31337, November 13, 2008 2:33 AM]

And argh... it lost my fake /OCD tag at the end of the message!

[#13 posted by Daneman, November 13, 2008 4:22 AM]

I would like to point this out.

I am a comic artist and, once upon a time, I needed a blood spatter.

So, I googled "blood spatter".

I used this one http://blog.wired.com/cars/images/2008/03/24/blood_2.jpg

...and so did Amy Lau.

[#14 posted by Beanolini, November 13, 2008 4:22 AM]

#10, EH:

Read the book instead and it may come clearer.

Though there is the possibility that it won't... it has been widely misunderstood.

Bret Easton Ellis himself said:

It's not really about Patrick Bateman [the narrator] killing anybody [It's] basically almost a feminist tract.

Oh, and I'm another for whom the incorrect 'wherefore' is a pet peeve.

[#15 posted by mr_josh, November 13, 2008 1:36 PM]

@ #13:

Wow, good find! That seems a trifle unoriginal!

[#16 posted by Antinous / Moderator, November 13, 2008 1:40 PM]

Now the chair just needs to make the Wilhelm scream when you sit on it.

[#17 posted by karenlyn, August 6, 2009 3:09 AM]

I wonder what it says about me that I kind of want one of those chairs...