Inspired Design

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

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: 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: 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: English Country Side

Filled with watercolors of most memorable projects, the pastoral retreat brims with personality, wit, and charm “Decorating is a subtle business. It’s about the flattery of light and color to make people look prettier”

This house has a soul and a voice.

English Country Design should have rich, warm colors

Cozy Seating - Tufted chesterfields and overstuffed armchairs—especially when covered in plush pillows in intricate patterns—impart a sense of warmth.

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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: 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: Interior Design Inspired by Nature

“There’s no better designer than nature.” which includes feathers, butterfly prints, trees, birds and other biomorphic shapes.

Furniture designers often cull from nature as well, pulling in colors, textures, and materials found in some of the world’s most revered gardens and landscapes. Here, looks at Eco FirstArt have some of the dreamiest lighting fixtures and furniture that offer a way to bring the outside indoors in the most artfully designed ways.

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Inspired Design: Time And Place

Dedication to creating highly customized interiors and architectural details for each project. Whether designing a polished uptown duplex, a rambling country house, or a weekend beach retreat, the purpose is to serve the needs of each client with his passion for timeless, comfortable homes that improve with age. Draw inspiration from vernacular architectural details of the particular region of each commission. Subscribe to the importance of properly proportioned structures and details, partnered always with a carefully curated collection of vintage, antique, and custom furniture.

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Inspired Look: Mesmerizing Marble Interiors

Much like diamonds, marble is one of nature’s most astonishingly beautiful creations. Steeped in history, the stone has long been associated with luxury and worldliness; its grand applications range from the Parthenon in Athens to New York City’s Grand Central Station.

For me, the veining and colors of marble are nature’s brushstrokes.

No two slabs of marble are the same, even when cut from the same area of a quarry. Marble is a stroke of time in the earth’s history.he raw beauty, dazzling colors, and ever-changing landscape are divine works of art.

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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: 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: 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: Hollywood Regency

Hollywood Regency came out of Hollywood's Golden Age, in the 1930s. Producers and directors wanted to bring extra star power to their films, so they decorated with serious opulence in mind. This then translated to home decor for the major stars of the era, like Joan Crawford.

If you've ever gotten serious art deco or mid-century modern vibes from Hollywood Regency, you wouldn't be wrong. While the furniture has a lot in common with mid-century in the silhouettes and clean lines, the details, such as pattern and color, are inspired by art deco. "While art deco has a similar flair for opulence, it doesn't feature the cheeky eclecticism that Hollywood Regency boasts”

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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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