Inspired Design

A design journal as a celebration of art, creative pursuits & influential legends.

Inspired Design: Beautiful Tailored Design

A beautifully tailored apartment where you have to really think about the use of materials, the different forms and shapes, and the types of furniture, as well as bringing in art and texture to create a graphic quality. The room is Inspired by the composition of a black-and-white photograph, it is important to approach the layout by reviewing how each object sits in relation to the next. Central spaces should be brightened with custom plaster striated white walls.

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Inspired Look: Each Room Should be a Piece of Art

Each Room should be an Art Piece. Visually striking, unexpected moments can be found throughout. The result is a room that’s deeply sophisticated but also a lot of fun. The room tends to be clean lined and domestic.

Theie is a love affair with the light, the sea, and the suspension of time. The room is quite different due to space and context, but the composition, material sensibility, and witty elegance transcend geography. His room achieves a functional elegance that is characterized by deference to art, light and views provided by natural surroundings.

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Inspired Look: Blending Past and Present

Urban aesthetic wrapped in the shell of a country home. The home gravitates towards a little bit more modern style when it comes to furniture. The task was how to marry the two. The beginning palette was to soften things up and square things off where the tone to be set for a bit of a sleeker look,

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Inspired Look: High End Modernism

Mid-century modern home decor is recognizable for its clean lines, a fusion of organic and manmade materials, and retro style.

Notice how the smooth curves of the wooden lounge chair and dining table legs meld seemlessly with the black leather sofa, white plastic chairs, blue cushions and colorful rug. This type of diversity in material, color, and texture is a hallmark of mid-century design.

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Inspired Look: Transcendent Residence

Embracing a pared down, more simplified lifestyle, the team looked to contemporary furnishings, solid-color silk rugs, and fabrics that were not overly ornate. Sheathing the majority of the living space is Benjamin Moore’s White Dove, which created a blank canvas for other creative elements. In the living room, for instance, the designers created a bright area for entertaining with a custom bouclé sofa, pleated leather Kelly Wearstler ottomans, and shagreen cabinets.

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Inspired Design: Luxurious Interiors

The vibe in the neutral living room is decidedly calm and composed—“a clean, ethereal moment,” The space has glamour or visual interest, from the fluted plaster fireplace surround and the sculptural cocktail table in hammered brass to the abstract, neo-Expressionist-style triptych by that spans the wall behind the midcentury-like curved sofa in sumptuous gray velour.

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Inspired Design: Envelope Pushing Interiors

Exquisitely crafted interior blends stellar midcentury designs and personality-driven contemporary pieces. The room has quality and luxury without going over the top. The interior is a mixture of simplicity and sensuosity with a sense of primary forms. It is a design - an outcome of progressive refinement, in which materials are used to curate space and movement, then accentuated by composing art and objects. The room is simple, clear, pure, silent, polished, minimal and relaxed.

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Inspired Design: High Contrast Interiors

Utilizing a neutral palette of black, white, and grays to create a calming, elegant interior. It is the utilization a neutral palette of black, white, and grays to create a calming, elegant interior. tt was an extreme amount of attention to detail so that it feels sleek. Different shapes were implemented throughout.

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Inspired Look: Purity of Design

Design obviously has rules and the essence of these rules forms the foundation of ‘pure design’. Jerry van Slambrouch, designer, consultant and educator, describes the evolution of the design element as a point, to a dot, becoming a line. Four lines create a plane – add depth and a 3-dimensional form is born. The arrangement of these elements, these details, is pure if its presentation is complete and absolute.

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Inspired Look: Sophisticated Living

Whereas years ago a perfectly executed interior would be best described as “decorated,” today’s masters of the craft conceive spaces that reflect individuality. “It’s such a mix of styles and design directions.

In this post-postmodernist world, anything goes. But the production standards are very high. But, and, as a result a higher level of sophistication, discipline, and actualization—the production standards—are very high. Artful. Smart. Thoughtful. Do whatever you want, pursue any style, but do it very, very well.

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Inspired Design: Good Bones with French Provence and Eclectic Design

Provence style is a provincial French interior design that is related to light southern styles. It has absorbed centuries-old traditions of French country houses and the imperishable beauty of the Côte d’Azur. Provence, or “French country”, is very popular among people who seek to bring a touch of rural charm to their home, while preserving the elegance of the French house.

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Inspired Design: Art Deco Inspired Interiors

From its outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of Cubism and the Vienna Secession; the bright colors of Fauvism and of the Ballets Russes; the updated craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of Louis Philippe I and Louis XVI; and the exotic styles of China and Japan, India, and Persia.

The main characteristics of Art Deco are

Smooth wall surface.

Sharp edged, linear appearance.

Stylized decorative elements using geometrical forms, zigzags, chevrons.

Low relief decorative panels.

Stepped or set back front facade.

Strips of windows with decorative spandrels.

Reeding and fluting around doors and windows.

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Inspired Design: Perfect Bedroom Suite

Entertaining spaces have traditionally received the greatest amount of design attention in the home, but now our private quarters are taking on a whole new level of importance. Bedrooms are being transformed into high-design home sanctuaries, with furnishings selected not only to offer a good night’s sleep but also to serve as calming cocoons for escape.

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Inspired Design: Design Vision

Every project has to have a distinct atmosphere. It has to transport you far from this world and into another, disconnected from the everyday context. Our work always gives priority to the effects of an environment that can take things out of the ordinary.

At its heart, the work is basically about atmospheres. Atmospheres can’t really be quantified. They’re what you get when a design transcends the sum of its parts — like music or a colour gradient.

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Inspired Design: Ultra Residential Collaboration

World-renowned for its clean, classic designs paired with avant-garde design. The discovery is covered that many ideas stem from postmodernism, which played an important role in the development of Modern Design. The space had a common set of principles.

The space is well designed - a tailor-made project. There is personal touch in addition, the one that look likes a gallerists eye carefully choosing each piece, each shape, as if each piece of furniture had designed.

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Inspired Design: Chic Home Library

The airy and artful library combines waterfront views and a muted color palette for a supremely chic, serene space.

This library is eclectic in the true sense of the word, blending different styles, mixing a cocktail of of a client dreams and their way of life. The room is ‘couture,’ and completely tailored .

Interior designers are schooled and excel at this textural design secret— a neutral backdrop creates a welcoming interior when mixed with warm textures such as rough hewn wooden elements, shiny tiles, nubby linens, and brushed velvets.If walls are painted in a bright orange, for example, then the bold color takes center-stage, making any textural elements disappear into the backdrop.

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Inspired Design: Minimalism and Maximalism

Statement design, including a Paul Evans dining table, Gio Ponti chairs, and Dedar fabrics, mixed with art by Victor Vasarely and Christopher Makos define this residence

There’s a beautiful symmetry to the house, The house flows.

The use of textures and textiles humanize the space.

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Inspired Design: Interior Design Inspired by Nature

“There’s no better designer than nature.” which includes feathers, butterfly prints, trees, birds and other biomorphic shapes.

Furniture designers often cull from nature as well, pulling in colors, textures, and materials found in some of the world’s most revered gardens and landscapes. Here, looks at Eco FirstArt have some of the dreamiest lighting fixtures and furniture that offer a way to bring the outside indoors in the most artfully designed ways.

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Inspired Design: Time And Place

Dedication to creating highly customized interiors and architectural details for each project. Whether designing a polished uptown duplex, a rambling country house, or a weekend beach retreat, the purpose is to serve the needs of each client with his passion for timeless, comfortable homes that improve with age. Draw inspiration from vernacular architectural details of the particular region of each commission. Subscribe to the importance of properly proportioned structures and details, partnered always with a carefully curated collection of vintage, antique, and custom furniture.

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Inspired Look: Mesmerizing Marble Interiors

Much like diamonds, marble is one of nature’s most astonishingly beautiful creations. Steeped in history, the stone has long been associated with luxury and worldliness; its grand applications range from the Parthenon in Athens to New York City’s Grand Central Station.

For me, the veining and colors of marble are nature’s brushstrokes.

No two slabs of marble are the same, even when cut from the same area of a quarry. Marble is a stroke of time in the earth’s history.he raw beauty, dazzling colors, and ever-changing landscape are divine works of art.

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