
Inspired Design
A design journal as a celebration of art, creative pursuits & influential legends.
Inspired Design: Luxury and Chic Interior Design from The Caribbean
Textiles: Vibrant textiles, like batik prints and woven fabrics, add texture and cultural flair. Cultural and Historical Influences: Colonial Elegance: Incorporate elements of colonial architecture, such as dark wood furniture, intricate carvings, and elegant accents.
Inspired Design: Personifies Classic-Meets-Contemporary Chic
“It’s quite a mix of furnishings, and yet it feels so coherent—nothing is incongruent,” Classic meets contemporary chic is an interior design style that combines traditional elements with modern pieces to create a timeless look.
It is interior design emerging as a captivating style that masterfully blends the warmth and familiarity of traditional decor with the clean lines and minimalist approach of contemporary design.
Inspired Design: Original and Timeless Designs
Timeless and original design transcends trends, effortlessly captivating with its enduring beauty and influence. It manifests through thoughtful craftsmanship and impeccable attention to detail, captivating the viewer's imagination. Such designs possess a unique quality that defies the passage of time, evoking a sense of awe and admiration through generations. Timeless design looks beyond fleeting fads, establishing itself as a symbol of enduring appeal.
Inspired Design: American Modern Design
American Modern Design has long been celebrated for its blend of functionality and innovation. Deeply rooted in the industrialization era of the early 20th century, this design movement emerged as a response to social, cultural, and technological progress. As a result, American Modern Design continues to capture the essence of a changing America. At its core, American Modern Design emphasizes functionality. It arose as a direct response to the needs of a rapidly evolving society.
Inspired Design: Erudite And Eclectic
Beauty meets quality of life.
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White On White: With A Nod To The Past And Present
Timeless Tapestry: A Room Bridging Past and Present
In a world where design trends constantly evolve, creating a space that embraces both the present and the past can be a captivating venture. Blending elements from different eras into a harmonious whole can unearth a unique narrative, offering a room that transcends time. The essence lies in the heart of eclectic design, where the combination of prints, patterns, and textures weaves a tapestry of rich layers, resulting in a space that piques curiosity and forms an additional dimension of interest.
Inspired Design: French Maximalism
French Maximalism is layering and mixing different colors, textures, and other design elements in a way that feels cohesive and curated.
It's the exact opposite of the popular minimalism aesthetic that we're so used to seeing these days. The maximalism style is perfect for the collector.
It's a design style rooted in a more-is-more philosophy that will often blend an eclectic mix of patterns, colors, textures, and objects.
Inspired Design: How The Color Blue can Make a Room Feel
Cool colors such as blue are a great choice for private spaces, where relaxation is the goal, like a library, media room, or bedroom. “Cooler Colors are more suited to spaces that you use during the day”.
Colors that lean cool, like blue, can inspire a sense of calm and relaxation. Cooler blues tend to feel far more formal.
Inspired Design: Old Money Decor
Old Money Decor is a design that the effect is what is called “a new classicism, refreshing and updated.”
The “old money” aesthetic is inspired by the lifestyles, fashion, interior design, and etiquette of wealthy established families, particularly those with “old money” inherited over multiple generations.
The old money aesthetic contrasts with “new money” that is more flashy and opulent. Old money is portrayed as more tasteful, subtle, and focused on family history.
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.
Inspired Look: Colonial Revival
In Colonia Revival the house would be a character in a novel.
Choose soft and muted colors. ...
Add craftsman traditional furniture. ...
Decorate with elements of natural texture. ...
Ceiling fans are for more than a cool room. ...
Layer in quilts and blankets for a soft touch. ...
Update the space with toile wallpaper. ...
Combine wood floors and area rugs.
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.
Inspired Look: Vibrant and Clear Colors
Vibrant and Clear Colors designs feature compelling reinterpretations of the past coupled with a sense of place, especially for winter months. This room has confident coloris , with a daring palette that includes bright pinks, emerald-greens, deep grays, and cerulean blues. The tactile surfaces--from shiny lacquer to rugged matte--provide an exciting textural contrast to the elegant antiques and vintage furnishings mixed seamlessly with upholstered creations.
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,
Inspired Interiors: Breathtaking Paris Apartment
An art- and design-filled sanctuary in gradations of neutrals and shimmering metallics for Paris Apartment. This apartment - one of white walls and accents of smoky, silvery, and pale sepia tones. It was important to pay tribute to Paris, with its muted colors, In this city, it’s all about textures and the gray sky, evocative interiors that deftly connect past and present. That kind of irreverent mix of art and objects runs through the space creating unexpected dialogues at every turn.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.