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Victorian Dublin: Colour Cues

Hallway of Victorian Dublin home in Ranelagh by Interior Designer Deirdre O'Connell
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Enlivening the beautiful interiors of Victorian and Georgian Dublin homes through colour.

Posted on July 18, 2022July 19, 2022 ClassicistColourContemporaryInterior Design

Let’s Get Hyper-Physical: Bottega Veneta

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“Awesome”; the feeling which the design and fitout of Bottega Veneta’s revamped, futuristic, Singapore store at “The Shoppes” at the Marina Bay Sands emulates.

Posted on June 7, 2022June 29, 2022 ColourContemporaryInterior DesignModernismRetail

Magical Malay Design: Borneo Hospitality

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The sophisticated design at the Shangri-La Rasa Ria, north Sabah in Borneo, brings local design elements to the fore, in a luxury setting. Culturally significant elements of the earth, sea and sky, are layered to form an aesthetic which reflects on the unique art, colours and nature of Malay tradition.

Posted on May 30, 2022June 6, 2022 ColourContemporaryHospitalityInterior Design

Retail Vision: Focus on RH

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Blurring the lines between home and hospitality, the American stores of RH have literally reimagined furniture retailing and interior design services.

Posted on March 12, 2022March 12, 2022 ArtColourInterior DesignRetail

Design Detail: Fondazione Prada

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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.

Posted on March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 ArtColourInterior DesignModernism

Art Deco: The Westbury Dublin

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Researching Art Deco lighting at luxury Dublin hotel The Westbury by Canadian designer Timothy Mather.

Posted on January 27, 2022March 7, 2022 ArtColourInterior DesignModernism

Irish Essense: Ballyfin Demesne

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British interior decorator Colin Orchard is responsible on our Emerald Isle for the magnificent interiors of Ballyfin Demesne, one of Ireland’s grandest Regency country house hotels.

Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 ColourEnglish Country House StyleInterior Design

High Society Design: The Grá Of An Irish Cailín

Ayer Mansion, The Back Bay, Boston, a surviving residence designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Photo from Harvard Magazine, from Ayer Mansion.
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One of the most fascinating decorators in American history, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 –1933) was an incredible, multi-faceted designer. His artistic flairs included painting, interior design, glass crafts and architecture, and he excelled in each.

Posted on June 15, 2020May 8, 2021 American Aesthetic MovementArt NouveauArts and Crafts MovementColourInterior DesignLighting

Designer: Nancy Lancaster

Nancy Lancaster Interior Designer
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“Understatement is extremely important and crossing too many t’s and dotting too many i’s make a room look overdone and tiresome.”

Posted on May 20, 2020June 26, 2020 ClassicistEnglish Country House StyleInterior Design

Deep Dive: Yellow

The Yellow Oval Room from the WhiteHouseMusuem.org website.
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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.

Posted on May 10, 2020May 20, 2020 ArtClassicistColourEnglish Country House StyleInterior Design

Lighting Designer: Richard Kelly

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“Lighting is such a large part of the visual arts – architecture, most of all – I’m sure the best we can do today will be inadequate tomorrow”

Posted on May 1, 2020May 10, 2020 Interior DesignLighting

Designer: Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American interior designer
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“Color is to the eye what music is to the ear.”

Posted on April 30, 2020June 26, 2020 ArtArt NouveauInterior Design

Lighting: Play Of Brilliants

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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.

Posted on April 30, 2020July 12, 2022 ArchitectsArtInterior DesignLighting

Inzik Tiles: Tulip Designs From Turkey

The astounding ceiling detail of The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
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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.

Posted on April 16, 2020July 9, 2020 ArtInterior Design

Dorothy Draper

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“If it looks right, it is right,” Dorothy Draper

Posted on April 9, 2020April 13, 2020 ArtInterior DesignModern Regency

Where Art and Interiors Décor Fuse, At the Bar

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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.

Posted on March 17, 2020April 2, 2020 ArtInterior Design

Robert Couturier

Robert Couturier Interior Designer
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“I’m completely addicted to luxury. I have no ability for anything else.” Robert Couturier

Posted on March 1, 2020April 30, 2020 ArtClassicistContemporaryInterior Design

Billy Baldwin

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“If a client wants a nineteenth-century Gothic library, it is up to me to create the best nineteenth-century […]

Posted on February 20, 2020April 30, 2020 ArtClassicistInterior DesignModernism

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