Inspired Design

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

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.

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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 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 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: Contemporary Beauty

The approach is holistic and collaborative in that architecture and interior design must work together seamlessly. We always begin by selecting references—whether from historical precents, lifestyle imagery or art. The work is grounded in and influenced by these points of view, which we then elaborate on and translate to create ownership of the client.

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