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. 

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Inspired Design: Palm Beach Whimsical Interiors

During the winter months, those looking to escape the gray doldrums descend on Palm Beach. Known for its blue skies, sea breezes, and verdant hedges, the resort town is beloved for its manicured perfection and civilized charm. When it comes to design, there is a distinctive Palm Beach style that defines the interiors of this coastal enclave. What, exactly, does tropical decor entail?

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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 Design: French Architectural with Curves and Color

French Architectural has a very sculptural appearance. It could almost be considered a work of art. There is a devotion to the French art of living, an ethos that celebrates unflinching attention to detail, a passion for the finest materials, and an appreciation for the richness of the country’s tradition of craftsmanship There is an approach that is about “reinterpreting traditional methods with a freshness.”

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Inspired Design: Vibrant Spaces

We find vibrant people inspirational! They are wonderful to be around, enjoying life and appreciating what they have. They absorb the positive and deflect the negative that is a part of each day. It isn’t that everything in their life is perfect, it is how they handle it that makes them vibrant. This vibrancy affects those around them in such a positive way – and that makes them very attractive.

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Inspired Design: Timeless Modern - Layer Warm Woods with Stylized Furniture

Timeless Modern with a variety of styles, for “a warm, layered apartment, very much about materials and textures. It’s about creating a place that feels well lived, comfortable. An array of furniture, objects, and art, its overriding aura remains welcoming and unpretentious. Establishing a true essence for a home is fundamental,It’s about creating a place that feels well lived, comfortable. And, of course, beautiful.

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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.

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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: 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.

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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.

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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: Southern French Villa

There’s a reason why light is first on the list for French Villa Style. If there is one design aspect that will set the tone throughout, it’s lots of natural light. You’re aiming to blur the barrier between inside and outside. Large windows, skylights, and glass doors are used in abundance for an open and airy feel with lots of bright light.

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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: 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 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: A Gorgeous Space for Persons that are Art Lovers

Just as many great art collections begin with a single acquisition—so too can a great home.In the case of a Brazilian family’s New York pied-à-terre, it all began on the opening day of Art Basel in Miami Beach a couple of years ago, when designer Edward Yedid of found himself captivated by an Ellen Gallagher painting.

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