Inspired Design

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

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: 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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Contemporary Style, Furniture, modernity Janeen Swing Contemporary Style, Furniture, modernity Janeen Swing

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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