Inspired Design

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

Inspired Look: Gardens and Outdoor Spaces

With the arrival of summer —and warmer temperatures—comes the urge to spend every minute in outdoor rooms. These outdoor living spaces offer a perfect place to lounge next to the pool, dining alfresco or take in the surrounding landscape. Whether terrace, loggia, or quaint nook, these outdoor living rooms are as stylish as the amazing homes they accompany, from a chic summer retreat in the Hamptons to a waterfront vacation house in Nova Scotia.

For lovers of cozy, outdoor spaces, the only thing better than a garden is a garden within a garden.

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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: Contemporary Beauty

The approach is holistic and collaborative in that architecture and interior design must work together seamlessly. We always begin by selecting references—whether from historical precents, lifestyle imagery or art. The work is grounded in and influenced by these points of view, which we then elaborate on and translate to create ownership of the client.

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Inspired Design: Palm Beach Look

Palm Beach design is elegant, light-filled, and especially happy. Interiors here have a sunny optimism, even on a cloudy day. Nothing defines Palm Beach style more than its bold and playful palette. Bright and colorful hues offer a truly tropical twist and draw inspiration from the cheerful locale. Think turquoise, lime green, sunshine yellow, coral, and flamingo pink. Fearless mixing of colors is also a hallmark of this style.

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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: Architectural Features and Handcraftsmandship

Craftsmanship is the key to individuality and quality.
Apart from being able to own unusual pieces, buying from craftspeople supports the maintenance of knowledge of a specific technique, which are otherwise at risk of being lost through mass-production, which dominate the market. It also encourages you to go on a journey of discovery to find out not only how artisans make their work but also their culture and history.

Buying from skilled makers guarantees top quality products, while it may also represent an invested in an heirloom to be treasured by future generations.

Working with craftspeople on an interiors project, be it on a cupboard, walls, doors, ironmongery or furniture, is the most effective way to express individual tastes.

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Inspired Look: "Unexpected Interiors"

“I love reading my clients, learning what is going to help them live fuller, work faster, realize a dream. It’s about giving them the proper tools, the optimal setting.”

The function of any space—whether it is a sleek, polished apartment or a relaxed country house—should feel like it comes from a local vernacular and yet creates an environment that’s particular to the client and the place.

Customized and unique elements are a key part of the shared aesthetic. Culling visual inspiration from the classics and adding a unique perspective to make designs relevant for a modern clientele. The result is a timeless look; fresh and unexpected and designed to improve with age.

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Inspired Look: Timeless Modern Spirit

Every new project goes into making a unique story, the Timeless Modern Style comes through with subtlety : a writing that seems to be simple with spaces adapted to the needs of the users, a concept of rigorous aesthetics that magnify the beauty of the materials, a timeless modern spirit, combining elegance and simplicity.

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Inspired Look: Dazzling Interiors

Dazzling Interior has redefined the world of modern luxury by becoming synonymous with refinement, quality and unique style. It involves expert selection and considered relationships between elements of light, texture, scale, and unexpected materials.

“It’s all about the mix, where something traditional doesn’t feel dated, and something modern doesn’t feel futuristic. It feels practical and real.”

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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: Interplay of Art, Textures, and Different Furniture Styles

I am a great believer in versatility. It’s a philosophy that shapes much of a homes growing art collection. furniture selection, and changes of the inhabitants.

“I always think that homes should be quite flexible in terms of adapting to whatever might be happening in your life and family,”

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