Inspired Design

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

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: 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: 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 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 Interiors: Breathtaking Paris Apartment

An art- and design-filled sanctuary in gradations of neutrals and shimmering metallics for Paris Apartment. This apartment - one of white walls and accents of smoky, silvery, and pale sepia tones. It was important to pay tribute to Paris, with its muted colors, In this city, it’s all about textures and the gray sky, evocative interiors that deftly connect past and present. That kind of irreverent mix of art and objects runs through the space creating unexpected dialogues at every turn.

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Inspired Look: Transcendent Residence

Embracing a pared down, more simplified lifestyle, the team looked to contemporary furnishings, solid-color silk rugs, and fabrics that were not overly ornate. Sheathing the majority of the living space is Benjamin Moore’s White Dove, which created a blank canvas for other creative elements. In the living room, for instance, the designers created a bright area for entertaining with a custom bouclé sofa, pleated leather Kelly Wearstler ottomans, and shagreen cabinets.

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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 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: 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 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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