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 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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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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: Retro Cool Glamour

Retro Cool Glamour is combine clean, modern lines with pops of color reminiscent of Gio Ponti and the bold architecture that defined 1950s Miami. It is to create an environment where can escape to and feel like they were living the glory days.

Materiality is of utmost importance. Hard surfaces including rare stone and wood that sheathes much of the interiors. such as brushed Negresco, Verde Alpi, and Malyat limestone, and Belgium Black marble throughout.Also use fine woods, including French polished mahogany, brushed and natural oak, and bronze.

Use custom crafted furnishings and lighting fixtures sumptuous array and 20th-century European pieces by the likes of Paolo Buffa, Stilnovo, Fontana Arte, Serge Mouille, Pierre Guariche, Angelo Lelli, and Marco Zanuso.

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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: 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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