This modern home interior design and living room interior inspiration with art deco style from Spanish firm Mobilfresno. Art Deco fabulously combines the sleek lines of classical architecture with modern curvature to develop an ethereal living room design. Art Deco living room allows you to combine and harmonize various textures, materials, and furnishings in a way that is absolutely a designer’s dream. (more…)
The Daily Telegraph / House & Garden Fair 2007 is the UK’s most prestigious event for interior and garden design. From bathrooms to bedrooms, gourmet food to garden furniture, the Fair brings you an unprecedented line up of exhibitors all carefully handpicked by House & Garden to ensure the highest quality products, most of which you will not find on the High Street.
For anyone passionate about interiors and gardens, the Fair is an excellent opportunity to see the very latest classic and contemporary designs from many of the country’s most prominent designers. And with numerous interactive seminars and talks going on throughout the Fair, visitors can gather a whole host of expert tips and advice to take home with them.
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Plants die. Sweaters go out of fashion. Chocolates get gobbled fast. But design books are gifts that keep giving.
It’s true. Sumptuously illustrated books about well-designed objects, inviting interiors, and extraordinary homes are forever useful, always up there on the shelf offering ideas or the occasional escape into a more comely world.
So add a trip to the bookstore to your last-minute shopping rounds and look for these selections from among this year’s notable releases: (more…)
Welcome to Murrieta. Now go inside. That seems to be the message that many homebuilders send to the buyers of their new homes.
But 10 months out of the year, people in Southwest Riverside County spend a lot of time outdoors. And in the summer, the nights are positively marvelous.
Yet, many new home designs don’t encourage their residents to take advantage of the better parts of the local climate. But some new homes are treating courtyards and other outdoor areas as part of the new home’s space for living, working and playing. (more…)
Rare is the speaker who can cover 10 centuries of material in a single lecture, but British-born author Chippy Irvine did just that last week at the New York School of Interior Design. Displaying the endurance and verve to pull off such a feat, Ms. Irvine delivered “Decorating from 1066 to today,” the final summer lecture in a series hosted by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America. Her whirlwind presentation offered a personal look at decoration from the Bayeux Tapestry to the present day.
Ms. Irvine, who has written or co-authored 10 books on topics ranging from New York residences to the craft of pillow making, opened by cautioning the audience that in covering so many years, “there will be some giant leaps.” (more…)
