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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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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: 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 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: 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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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: Art Deco Inspired Interiors

From its outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of Cubism and the Vienna Secession; the bright colors of Fauvism and of the Ballets Russes; the updated craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of Louis Philippe I and Louis XVI; and the exotic styles of China and Japan, India, and Persia.

The main characteristics of Art Deco are

Smooth wall surface.

Sharp edged, linear appearance.

Stylized decorative elements using geometrical forms, zigzags, chevrons.

Low relief decorative panels.

Stepped or set back front facade.

Strips of windows with decorative spandrels.

Reeding and fluting around doors and windows.

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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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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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