Tag: Interior Design

01Jul

Jean Louis Deniot’s Los Angeles Home

Jean Louis Deniot's LA home, 1930's architecture

Jean Louis Deniot’s Los Angeles home is nestled in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, and it’s a 1930’s fairy-tale.  “When the weather is nasty in Paris I jump on a plane and come to beautiful La La Land,” he told AD.  It took Deniot two years to complete the renovation of the over 2,000-square-foot home. The charming house has Tudor style exteriors, and Spanish-style interiors, many homes in L.A. share a Spanish-style interior architecture.  Jean Louis is known for his dramatic while livable interiors, but for his Los Angeles home, he kept things more on the relaxing side.

Jean Louis Deniot's LA home, living room with a moroccan rug

In the living room, a 17th-century Spanish chandelier hangs from a pointed vaulted ceiling.  Klismos chairs and Moroccan add to the eclecticism of the room.

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10Jun

Sophisticated County Style: 12 Sophisticated Country Rooms

sophisticated country office design, Bunny Melon

sophisticated country design style, Bunny Mellon Antigua home

The Antigua residence of Bunny Mellon.

Often when some hear the word country style or interior design, the first images that come to their mind are unpainted wood, rust metal furniture, and rough, textural walls and floors surfaces, however, there is also another kind of country style that is also sophisticated and refined.  It’s true that I love urban and polished interiors, but I also love and enjoy being in a sophisticated country space for many different reasons, but mostly for its coziness and inviting feel.

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20May

Cozy Interior Corners: Built In Banquettes

Phillip Gorrivan design, blue and white striped banquette, louis xvı chair and Joan Miro art

Banquette seating used to be mostly for kitchens.  Nowadays we can find them in any corner inside the home.  A custom banquette is the best way to save space and add coziness to a space.  Regardless of what interior design you prefer, there is a style for everyone, from elegant ones, upholstered in sumptuous velvet to more casual ones covered in stripes.

A banquette in the kitchen adds functionality and a multi-use area where families can not only eat, but also do homework, play games, and enjoy a morning coffee.  Below, a few cozy options that will sure inspire you.

Phillip Gorrivan design, blue and white striped banquette, louis xvı chair and Joan Miro art

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13May

Design To Know: 8 Maximalist Rooms That Will Make You Frown At Minimalist

Maximalist design, Dries Van Noten’s home

Maximalist decor doesn’t mean to go crazy without any reference and harmony.  On the contrary, a well-appointed more is more design requires strict planning and focus.  This is the Maximalist decor we’ll be covering here, an over the top design style that harmoniously and cohesively morphs into sumptuous, lavishly extraordinary homes that feel nothing if not authentic.  Maximalist design has three main design bases, lots of colors, patterns, and comfort byways of a lot.

When it comes to Maximalist interiors, the more, the better.  More patterns, more texture, and objects are a must.  Most of these objects are often collected from travels, and if not it’s important to make them feel like it.  If there is a design style that gives us the ways to have a happy home, that would be a more is more decor, since it’s a way for homeowners to bring inside what they genuinely love.  Imagine a home where you cohabitate with your favorite books, comfortable, decorative pillows, collected objects that bring to mind favorite memories, and arts all while displaying them in a way that feels natural and innate.

maximalist design, Valentino Garavani's home

Valentino Garavani’s home.  This home is so beautiful that it deserves a post of its own.  I’ll be doing it soon.

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06May

Design Element: The Architectural Power of Trellis, Trelliage or Lattice

The secret garden at the Ritz, Paris via Town and Country

If you’ve been to Paris, then you may be very familiar with the Architectural design element known as trellis, lattice or trelliage.  You may have seen lattice all over Paris’s parks and exterior building walls.  Originally created as a garden element for mainly the separation between the more wild areas and the formal ones, trellis eventually took a more functional role as structures for grapevines, climbing roses and ivy plants to climb on.  Nowadays their most modern use is more for the decorating aspect rather than for its function so much so that we can see it very often indoors covering interior walls.  When lattice is used inside the house for covering the walls in intrinsic design its architectural effect is even more of a statement.

lattice, dining room with lattice on walls and ceiling

A home in Palm Beach with lattice on walls.

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