Inspired Design

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

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.

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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 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 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 Design: Retro Cool Glamour

Retro Cool Glamour is combine clean, modern lines with pops of color reminiscent of Gio Ponti and the bold architecture that defined 1950s Miami. It is to create an environment where can escape to and feel like they were living the glory days.

Materiality is of utmost importance. Hard surfaces including rare stone and wood that sheathes much of the interiors. such as brushed Negresco, Verde Alpi, and Malyat limestone, and Belgium Black marble throughout.Also use fine woods, including French polished mahogany, brushed and natural oak, and bronze.

Use custom crafted furnishings and lighting fixtures sumptuous array and 20th-century European pieces by the likes of Paolo Buffa, Stilnovo, Fontana Arte, Serge Mouille, Pierre Guariche, Angelo Lelli, and Marco Zanuso.

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Inspired Design: Retro-Cool Glamour of the 1950's

The Retro-Cool Glamour process combines clean, modern lines with pops of color reminiscent of Gio Ponti and the bold architecture that defined 1950s Miamii, a place where your clients have creation of an environment they could escape to and feel like they were living the glory days.

The vision has little to do with the taste of the moment. As well as an eclectic eye, that subtle and precious ability to deal with real elegance and discretion, mixing things that don’t belong together and playing with styles with a flair for narrative interiors. The look is evolving more and more toward mixtures and turning away from the “total look” concept. The room loves to discover things, finding inspiration from traveling experiences, and by passion for art collecting.

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Inspired Look: Interplay of Art, Textures, and Different Furniture Styles

I am a great believer in versatility. It’s a philosophy that shapes much of a homes growing art collection. furniture selection, and changes of the inhabitants.

“I always think that homes should be quite flexible in terms of adapting to whatever might be happening in your life and family,”

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