Where The Finds Live: Studio Seiders On The Hideaway Round Top
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The Round Top Painting That Inspired an Entire Room
At Hideaway Round Top, Studio Seiders' 21 acre elevated farm stay, located next to The Compound and Marburger Farm, the interiors were designed to tell a story. One nearly seven foot wide vintage painting found at Box Road ended up shaping an entire room.
For Emily Seiders of Studio Seiders, a nearly seven-foot-wide vintage still life became the starting point for the primary bedroom at the Hideaway, a Texas property deeply rooted in storytelling.
There are Round Top finds you bring home because they fill an empty spot. Then there are the finds that determine what happens next, the ones that shape an entire room.
For this installment of Where the Finds Live, a large-scale vintage oil painting discovered at Box Road became the piece around which an entire primary bedroom was built.
The vintage still life, painted by Stephen Neal Lorber, was found in 2023. Yet despite the painting's considerable scale, there wasn’t much hesitation.
Emily tells Round Top Finds, “I actually found this piece via their Instagram before it hit the fields, it was in the background of a shop photo he had posted and it immediately stopped me in my tracks. I DM’d them immediately and snatched it right away!”
There's a reason we have follow your favorite vendors on social media in our Round Top Finds guides. Sometimes the best find can occur before, during, or after show while you're scrolling.
THE FIND
The painting measures approximately 90 by 72 inches, so this wasn’t exactly a piece that could be squeezed onto whatever wall happened to be available.
The scale wasn’t the only thing that caught the designers attention.
“The Hideaway is deeply rooted in Texas history, so I was immediately drawn to the realism of the quilt. Quilting has such a rich tradition in Texas, and I knew from the beginning that it was something we wanted to explore through the design, even though at that point we hadn’t purchased a single piece for the project.”
The Hideaway Round Top
Finding this painting felt almost like fate.
“There’s a simplicity to it that gives it a distinct contemporary quality, while the subject matter couldn’t have felt more at home at Hideaway.”
THE ROOM CAME SECOND
Rather than finding artwork to finish the bedroom, they did the opposite. The painting came first.
“Not only is it large — 90” x 72” — so I knew it needed to find a special place, and that it would anchor the space it was in," Seiders told Round Top Finds.
It ultimately landed opposite the king bed in the primary bedroom. Then they designed around it.
“We ended up placing it opposite the king bed in the primary bedroom, and then we built the room’s entire palette around the painting — from the rugs to the casegoods to the bed linens.”
One Round Top find. An entire room built around it.
WHY THEY LEFT IT ALONE
The painting wasn’t restored or reframed after coming home.
“We chose to leave it as we found it. The frame shows wear and tear and a little age, but for me the imperfect is what makes it perfect.”
That imperfection is part of what makes the piece work at home in Round Top, Texas.
When we asked what makes the piece add something to the room that a newly made work couldn’t, the answer wasn’t just patina or provenance, it was “All of the above.” The scale was immediately striking, but the subject matter ultimately made the connection.
“The subject matter spoke directly to our desire to honor craftsmanship and Texas history, while the composition managed to feel both warm and restrained at the same time. Hideaway isn’t a traditional Texas farmhouse, but it draws on Texas history in a contemporary way and this painting captured that balance perfectly," Seiders says.
THE ROUND TOP LESSON
Her advice for finding something equally special has less to do with racing through as many venues as possible and more to do with relationships.
“Find your favorite vendors, and then stay in touch with them throughout the year!”
Because some of the best Round Top finds might reveal themselves long before you’re physically standing in the fields.
“Most are constantly refreshing their inventory even outside of show times, so the relationships you end up building in the fields become a direct line to unique pieces throughout the year.”
Sometimes, in an off season, or when you haven't made it to a certain field or venue while at the show, the piece that stops you mid-scroll becomes the piece an entire room is built around. For Emily Seiders of Studio Seiders in The Hideaway it's the find that carried the storytelling and focal point for the entire room.
Have a Round Top find with a story worth telling? Round Top Finds™ wants to know where the finds live. Email Hello@RoundTopFinds.com with the subject Where The Finds Live.
