Excessive use by developers has knocked metal hardware out of the picture, reveals Lauren Piscione, designer of AD PRO Directory, director of LP Creative Design. The influential 1stDibs designer survey predicts growing enthusiasm for the fantastic color palette of chocolate brown, burnt orange and mustard from the 1970s in 2024. For example, the designers used beautiful corduroy to line the drawers of their store to complement the colors, textures and fabrics of the products inside. Here, a Lauren Nelson Design alcove in a San Francisco home is ideal for writing thank you notes. The trend driven by the television series Succession and the overdose of ostentatious urban luxury fashion will continue to infiltrate design.
from home. Sydney-based YSG Studio has designed custom sliding door solutions, such as wooden frames inspired by Japanese shoji screens and custom carpentry furniture, to meet customer demand for a living room TV that can be stored away. In recent years, design enthusiasts can be forgiven for feeling that they are not facing a time tunnel, but rather a stopped clock. Nowadays, “it's all a matter of redesign,” says Brigette Romanek, a Los Angeles-based designer and member of the AD PRO board.
In recent months I have begun to recover my passion for design and interiors, something that I am very excited. This Santa Monica home by designer Mónica Calderón and architect Ezequiel Farca has a well-equipped outdoor gathering space for family and friends. Some designers are looking for ingenious ways to hide the television, while others adopt it as a design object or use new products to turn it into an eye-catching piece of furniture. Ukrainian studio Isto chose the Bang & Olufsen Beovision Harmony TV as the design focal point for the living room of a Dubai villa.
On the top floor of a house designed by Ninety Nine Group in Forte dei Marmi (Italy), an Ettore Mocchetti slipper-like armchair, as sweet as a peach, is installed. There, the Milanese designer Cristina Celestino opted for a sectional white Camaleonda, a wall with mirrors and custom-made travertine tables. Jessica Cooper, from the International WELL Building Institute, compares it to the way in which designers have helped people modernize their homes so that they age in their homes or provide them with better service during the lockdowns caused due to COVID.
