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: 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: 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: 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 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: Sophisticated Palm Beach Style

Palm Beach style decorations and home accents are known for their bright colors and unique motifs. These accents often feature bright colors such as turquoise, coral, hot pink, and lime green. Palm Beach style home accents can include bold prints like palm tree leaves, flamingos, and tropical flowers.

The coastal style borrows from every aspect of the sea life that surrounds it. You’ll see furniture, lighting, and décor with shell or coral elements, like a capiz shell lamp or a coral sculpture mounted on crystal.

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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: 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 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: 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: Ultra Residential Collaboration

World-renowned for its clean, classic designs paired with avant-garde design. The discovery is covered that many ideas stem from postmodernism, which played an important role in the development of Modern Design. The space had a common set of principles.

The space is well designed - a tailor-made project. There is personal touch in addition, the one that look likes a gallerists eye carefully choosing each piece, each shape, as if each piece of furniture had designed.

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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: Minimalism and Maximalism

Statement design, including a Paul Evans dining table, Gio Ponti chairs, and Dedar fabrics, mixed with art by Victor Vasarely and Christopher Makos define this residence

There’s a beautiful symmetry to the house, The house flows.

The use of textures and textiles humanize the space.

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Inspired Design: Glamorous Design

Visually stimulating, yet extremely functional, Glamorous Interiors gracefully meld the timeless elegance of the past with today’s modern aesthetic.  It is redefining luxury interior design.

Bold, glamouous designs have a striking quality about them. They’re contemporary and masculine without being harsh or cold. Starting with the sleek, black mood box it is filled with shells, textiles, photographs, and other trinkets that in each of these interiors from an urban apartment.. Together, the rooms and boxes tell the full story of each project—and command your attention with every turn of the page.

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Inspired Design: Clean Lined Furnishings and Luxurious Textures

Clean Lined Furnishings and Textures soften the interiors with inviting textures, warm tones, and comfortable furnishings, while also conceiving high-impact moments.

It’s a personal approach.” That self-assured individuality is felt throughout this home, where the architecture, furnishings, and art combine in uncommonly elegant harmony.

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Inspired Design: Sculptural Furnishings, Creative Lighting, and Colorful Textiles

Now in its 25th year, Maison & Objet brought the best in home decor, interior design, architecture, and lifestyle trends to Paris’s Parc de Expositions de Villepinte, January 17 through 21. On both banks, showrooms were bustling with interior designers, journalists, and retailers who came to peruse furnishings and textiles as part of the annual Deco Off. Installations in galleries and private homes emphasized old-world charm mixed with artisan techniques, while fusing tradition and nouveau craft. Pink and green were everywhere, and fabrics were presented in exciting textures as well as tropical and vivid floral prints.

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Inspired Design: French California Eclectic

We like when it’s at its most eclectic: For instance, on the left side of the drawing room, your eye embraces at the same time a unique library of Gio Ponti, with Murano glass, and silk-covered doors, and an exceptional Brazilian 1980s Denuncia table by José Zanine Caldas. Though quite different in style, the two pieces mix beautifully.

For us, a contemporary residential look is not about having contemporary pieces. It’s about having a mix of pieces that communicate with each other and reflect the culture, taste and identity of the people living in the home. We like to create eclectic interiors by mixing different periods,

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Inspired Look: Refined Interiors

Refined Interiors can be defined as versatile: with a fresh approach creates a fil rouge but every space is carefully crafted around an idea, a need or demand of the client. Every room is unique and aspirational, perfectly capturing the personality of the owner with a blend of vintage and custom furniture.

Refined textiles, detailed decor create refinement.

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Inspired Look: Pied a Terre

A London-based couple had a predilection for historic architecture set out to find the perfect Paris pied-à-terre. In the Left Bank’s atmospheric sixth arrondissement—home to the Luxembourg Gardens, the Odéon Theater, and the storied Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, where the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus once held court—they fell in love with a quintessentially Parisian apartment.

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