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 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.

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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.

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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: 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.

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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 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.

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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: 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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Featured Look: Art Deco Inspired Interiors

Art deco — that familiar style of art, architecture and design with a sometimes-wacky blend of historic and futuristic influences — is still beloved. And if trend forecasters are to be believed, we are ripe for a full-scale art deco revival. After all, in some ways 2021 feels a lot like 1920.

The Characteristics of Art Deco

Heavy geometric influences.

Triangular shapes.

Zigzags.

Trapezoidal shapes.

Straight and smooth lines.

Loud, vibrant, and even kitschy colors.

Streamlined and sleek forms.

Sunburst or sunrise motifs.

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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: 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 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: Contemporary Art Deco

Art Deco is a distinctive style that was popular in the 1920s and 30s. It's distinguished by geometric shapes and opulent finishes that ooze luxury. Today, modern Art Deco style can be an effective way to create a dynamic interior with a hint of glamour, that nods to the past without looking dated.

Art Deco, short for Arts Décoratifs, is characterized by rich colors, bold geometry, and decadent detail work. Having reached the height of its popularity in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, the style still brings in glamour, luxury, and order with symmetrical designs in exuberant shapes.

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