Design Notes: It All Starts With Art
Here are tips for using art in your room interior design and home décor projects, as featured in IMAGE Magazine.
Retail Vision: Focus on RH
Blurring the lines between home and hospitality, the American stores of RH have literally reimagined furniture retailing and interior design services.
Design Detail: Fondazione Prada
Fondazione Prada , the former distillery in south Milan which has been masterfully converted into an experimental, installation art destination, designed by OMA, led by Rem Koolhaa.
Art Deco: The Westbury Dublin
Researching Art Deco lighting at luxury Dublin hotel The Westbury by Canadian designer Timothy Mather.
Deep Dive: Yellow
From Buckingham Palace, to Nancy Lancaster's Brook Street yellow drawing room at Colefax and Fowler, through to the use of yellow at The White House by designers such as Stéphane Boudin and Kenneth Blasingame, this tale presents grand, opulent yellow designs through history.
Designer: Louis Comfort Tiffany
"Color is to the eye what music is to the ear."
Lighting: Play Of Brilliants
Probably one of the most powerful influences in the elements and principals of design, lighting plays a phenomenal impact on the mood, enjoyment and visual aesthetic of an interior design scheme.
Inzik Tiles: Tulip Designs From Turkey
Defined by the prominent use of strong blues, bursts of reds, white, and often turquoise, this colour palette was originally an homage to the Turkish craftmakers’s Oriental neighbours, China, and the Ming dynasty ceramics.
Dorothy Draper
“If it looks right, it is right,” Dorothy Draper
Where Art and Interiors Décor Fuse, At the Bar
The history of wall murals in interior design took an interesting turn in the early twentieth century, when a number of fine American hotels and hospitality establishments approached famous artists to create huge artworks to lavish their interiors.