Blue

My love affair with blue, the turquoise variety in the main, does not seem to be diminishing.  I have a red thing going on too, a big georgian mansion with a double ht hallway with a stone cantilevered stairway, 10m high !!, however thats another story that I am very excited about.

I found an image on Style Salonista this morning, a fashion shot by Demarchelier,  that’s so cool and very inspiring from an interiors perspective.  the mix of dark navy wool, chocolate, cafe au lait inserts, tuquoise embroidery with bronze studs and beading, all topped with a beautifully quilted turquoise hat………  A Dior creation ,that to me is stunning.  I want to use these colourings in a huge victorian pile that I am designing, it also has an amazing galleried entrance , large spaces, tall ceilings.  The richness of hte blues make other colours zing, add orange, golds and yellows, paler teals, duck egg and greys for softer less dramatic areas.

images courtesy of Style Salonista

Courtesy Bellocq Tea Atelier New York

the “well dressed” bed

Its been a busy week so far, feels like it should be Friday!, so looking forward to luxuriating under the covers on Sat morning knowing there is no meeting to attend, not deadline to meet , just a leisurely breakfast.  Thanks to Remodelista for introducing me to this amazing shop, full with exquisite bedlinens, fabulous cashmere blankets and finery for the well dressed bed.

http://www.anichini.com/shop

Tangerine Dream

Just up for a bit of air ! Very busy , plans, plans, plans and lots of luscious colour choices

Orange is one of my favourite colours, it incredibly zingy teamed with Grey, another all time favourite !

In fact any colour teamed with grey seems to sing loudly………  strange but I sense a lot of my colour as music, and music conjures up colours………

Kandinsky work expressed the sounds and movements of music, synaesthesia is the term, the louder the music, the more saturated the colour and so on.

This  brings me back to the colour of orange, its vibrancy its warmth and its abillity to lift ones spirits and induce creativity, , take a look at the work of Ruth Lloyd, now if this doesnt induce a good vibe I will eat my hat.  Ruth’s takes on orange is tangerine , take a look at her website by clicking on the image

 

a litte bit of Kandinsky to make you sing !!

 

 

Black or white

Or should I say black and white?  extreme polarities and what a difference  in feel designing with either  of these in a monochromatic scheme.   My new studio is white, its very uplifting and helps me to achieve a clear head.  However decorating with the two colours helps to bring about an equalibrium as in The Crown below.  A timeless classic updated in black, the ercol chair, draped with a white cosy sheepskin.  This Inn and their sister establishment The Olde Bell Inn are designed by Ilsa Crawford

Josef Frank

an image from Domino magazine inspired me to research Joseph Frank, his 40′s prints are so vibrant of full of energy  and so incredibly detailed.

This room is full of hope, waiting for the summer sun to return, strangely this pattern is called Hawaii?

Svenskt Tenn a wonderful  interiors shop in Stockholm , opened in in the 1920′s, 10 years later Josef Frank joined the design team and his abundantly floral fabrics were born.  Click on the image below to take you to the Svenskt Tenn shop,

 

timeless inspiration

I am needing to create a scheme for an apartment in a beautiful georgian buildiing, high cceilings, beautifully proportioned windows, light, sunny with views across swathes of gren parkland.  Want to keep this light airy feeling and have been inspired by this image of a bedroom, it belongs to the style editor of Domino magazine, a stateside interiors mag and appears in the book “Domino “

As you can imagine over the years I have amassed a huge collection of books and magazines, cuttings and clippings,  my bookshelves are groaning but there is nothing I love more than taking a book at random, making a cup of coffee and sitting outside in my favourite chair and perusing the pages.  Always, always find something that sparks off an idea.  Just like this image today

Happy New Year

 

Happy New year everyone, first day back at work !!  Avalanche of work, plans coming out of my ears, made a good start though, cleared some issues hanging over from before christmas, made a start on floor finishes plan and had a meeting to discuss how to tackle the workload.

With my walking practically non existant, and not being able to drive has curtailed my meetings somewhat, although Matlock beckons on my birthday, 18th January,  I will be great to be driven and site meeting is planned to be on the level so I dont have to climb up to the site managers office !!

All very exciting

Turquoise, red and Paris

Today I found an image I compiled from a photograph taken at Maison Objet last year. Think it was on the Asiatides stand.   A beautiful piece of coral against a backdrop of a chinese glazed tile.  Have been waiting for just the right interior to use it, framed up will look great.  In fact there is a whole series, so I can have a wall group of nine images in total.

Maison Objet is a very inspiring interiors trade show in Paris, alas this year I wont be able to go in January because of the foot, but hopefully will manage the one in September.  Used to go twice a year, but its not worth it, they are much the same except that in September there are more fabrics, but this isnt why I go, I like to source new furniture ideas, note trends, and in general just absorb ideas like a huge sponge……………. and of course any excuse to get on that train to Paris !

and more

more images to inspire me in the turquoise mode.  I hadnt realised that William de Morgan not only used this colour to great effect but used red too, take a look here :-   red lustre ware

 

 

another day, new inspirations

Another day of resting up (broken foot scenario) has produced more inspirational images.  With the Aesthetic movement finds of yesterday and the image of NIGHT AND SLEEP by Evelyn De Morgan, I found the wonderful ceramics of William De Morgan.  The colours and imagery I have found a renewed love for, he uses lots of blues, turquoise and greens with great effect, red lustre too.  I remember back in the day, many years back when Morris and his contemporaries were much in vogue, think they are making headway again but not in such an overblown way this time.

This tiled panel below was commisioned by P&O shipping lines for on etheir cruise liners.  De morgan uses ships a lot in his imagery, and was very drawn by the sea