12Feb

Mario Buatta’s Latest Creation Is A Nod To His Legendary Style

The late Interior Design legend Mario Buatta passed away a few months away. Buatta was known as the Prince of Chintz for his quintessential use of classic elements such as the traditional print and his maximalist body of work. In his last project, a glamorous duplex located in Manhattan overlooking the East River, the legendary designer left his tasteful mark in every one of the design choices, comfortable, plump seating, sumptuous drapery with dressmaker details, a glorious selection of color, touches of chinoiserie fantasy, and, yes, occasional bursts of flowered chintz.

Mario Buatta, purple room

11Feb

Mary McDonal Grand Design In Full Display At Corona de Mar

Mary McDonald design, chinoiserie purple and white office

Mary McDonald’s style is synonymous to glamour, grandeur, over the top, and architectural design. The 17,000-square-foot home she recently designed, distilled every one of those attributes mentioned above, from a very bold home library with custom wall paint to an impressive marble clad entryway. The home, located in Corona del Mar, California belongs to Jerrod Blandino and Jeremy Johnson couple behind the California-based cosmetics brand Too Faced.

If you ever watched the Bravo TV show Million Dollar Decorators, you may remember Mary McDonald’s exuberant design as she was one of the Interior Designers in the show. One of McDonald ’s consistent design elements is symmetry which she implements even in the least conventional forms, for instance in every one of Mary McDonald’s office desks; you’ll find a pair of table lamps, never one. Another design element that Mary often favors is the use of a three-color pallete, a yellow, grey and black bedroom, a pink, black and beige room and so forth.

Mary McDonald design, black and white entryway

A custom de Gournay wallpaper with a pastoral landscape.

30Jan

Trending Now: Louis XIV Style Furniture

There is one Interior Designer in particular whom I’ve seen using a few Louix XIV furniture here and there, however this time, you can spot the XIV inspired chairs and furniture everywhere. The Sun King, how Louis XIV is known played an integral role in transforming the monarchy leading the way to a golden age of decoration, art, and literature. According to him the furnishing and decor should be a reflection of the wealth and power of the monarchy, hence the golden and flamboyant pieces of his period. Louis XIV period furniture can also be referred to as Baroque.

Bedroom with a Louis XIV style side chair designed by Steven Gambrel via Elle Decor

28Jan

Windsor: A Luxury Residential Club At Vero Beach: CSOW

I feel like I’m cheating by posting about Windsor, a luxury residential club in Vero Beach, Florida as a commercial space of the week. For many reasons, first because although it offers many commercial spaces, it’s also a community. Windsor is a village by the sea in Vero Beach, Florida where every detail was perfectly planned and designed to give their residents the ultimate luxury living experience. Every one of their amenities is set in perfect-looking settings.

The private residential club offers a full-scale Equestrian Centre consisting of 18 stables and 14 paddocks with 4.6 miles of riding trails surrounding the community, a 400-yard-long polo field, the tennis courts designed by Wimbledon champion Stan Smith are lined with jasmine, a championship golf course and much more. Windsor was founded in 1989 by Canadian businessman W. Galen Weston and his philanthropist wife, Hilary Weston, the former lieutenant governor of Ontario. The now luxury residential community started as a private summer residence for the Weston family, later they enlisted Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk to design the New Urbanism style of living.

15Jan

Classic Beauty In Belgium: Dries Van Noten At Home

Dries Van Noten is one of my favorite fashion designers. He is the master of sophisticated prints. His creations masterfully merge traditional prints with modern silhouettes. Consequently Dries Van Noten’s beautiful Belgian home should not come as a surprise. The Neoclassical home, located in Lier, close to the cıty of Antwerp was build in the 1840’s and was decorated with the help of interior designer Gert Voorjans.

Dries Van Noten’s home

The house is furnished with beautiful antiques that were collected from markets in Brussels and Paris. The patterned textiles throughout the house is a definite nod to Van Noten’s love of pattern and exotic graphics.

Dries Van Noten’s home, garden

The 55-acre park surrounding the mansion was converted into a breath-taking garden by Landscape Architect Erick Dhont. Dries’ other passion is gardening and by looking at the images below, he does an amazing job.

10Jan

Greener Ways To Keep A Garden Great:

We’re taking a trip to the home’s exterior, to take a closer look at one of the most important parts of creating and preserving its curb appeal: the garden. If you’re getting concerned about all things environmental, it might be surprised that one of the greenest spaces can cause the most damage. Here, we’re going to look at some of the lousy gardening habits to get rid of, and how you can do it a little greener.

Category: Interior Design

Mario Buatta’s Latest Creation Is A Nod To His Legendary Style

Mary McDonal Grand Design In Full Display At Corona de Mar

Trending Now: Louis XIV Style Furniture

Windsor: A Luxury Residential Club At Vero Beach: CSOW

Classic Beauty In Belgium: Dries Van Noten At Home

Greener Ways To Keep A Garden Great:

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