He now uses it as a coffee table in the living room. Dyer also put leopard fabric on the seats of two Chippendale side chairs behind the sofa. Leopard goes with anything. And rust goes with anything. Behind it is a large French poster for a liqueur in greens, golds and rusts on a black background.
Greens also show up in Charleston reproduction porcelain plates on the living-room mantel.
Yellows and rusts are carried over to other porcelain plates in Dyer's collection. He hung it on the wall behind the lowboy, and it pulled the look together. The eclecticism of his home is quite evident in the living room. A French-style tole cafe table is painted black. Brass sconces hang above each side of the console table.