Styleture

Shades of Red - Using Red Products in your Designs

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Red can be a very difficult color to get right. Use it too much and its depth and saturation can be annoying, use it too little and it looks out of place. However, red is an exciting color to use in your interior design color palette because it leaves a lasting impression and definitely garners attention. The trick is using the right shade in the right spo[...]

Sustainable Office Design - Sustainable Solutions International

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Sustainable interior design has become extremely popular over the past few years. Some companies – like kitchen and bath fixture manufacturer and distributor Sustainable Solutions International (SSi) – even make sustainable and stylish design easy. Sustainable Solutions International has a number of offices in North America, and manufactures and distributes [...]

Designer Profile - Ludovica+Roberto Palomba

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Ludovica+Roberto Palomba are well known for their bathroom and furniture designs, which have been characterized as defining the art of living. As architects and designers, the Palombas deal primarily in architecture, industrial design, exhibit design, art direction, communications and marketing consulting. Roberto Palomba is also a professor at the Polytechn[...]

High Style from the Slammer

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When it comes to interior design I’d never research jails for inspiration. However, oddly enough some of the most luxurious high-design hotels got their start as a prison. Just look at Malmaison Oxford in Oxford, England. This stylish hotel has 94 rooms and features gorgeous Victorian architecture. Your eye will go immediately to the original heavy metal s[...]

Designer Profile - Marco Ferreri

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Marco Ferreri is an amazing and innovative Italian designer who was born in Imperia Italy, graduated from the Politecnico of Milan in 1981. Ferreri, like many Italian designers, studied architecture originally, but now designs everything from urban planning projects to furniture. In his career he has been noted for his furniture designs such as the Is Stool [...]

Manly Décor...

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The title itself sounds like an oxymoron, but believe it or not there is a lot of manly décor out there these days. There are plenty of masculine finishes, modern furnishings and state-of-the-art fixtures for delving into a “gentlemen’s club” inspired makeover. Many men prefer designs with perfectly straight lines, dark brooding colors, rustic and earthy acc[...]

Rediscovering a Designer - Philippe Starck

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Have you ever been surfing the Web, looking at new and interesting designs, and just been taken aback by something which forced you to look at nearly everything a designer has done? A few days ago I found myself looking at hundreds of designs by one of my favorite designers, Philippe Starck, when I found an amazing yacht that he had been working on recently [...]

MotoArt - Turning Old Aircraft Into Functional Art

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MotoArt creates high quality furniture out of vintage airplane parts. They are based in Los Angeles and use old aircraft parts such as rudders, flaps, stabilizers, engine cells, fuselage, windows, and even galley carts, which they make into mobile mini bars. The owners of MotoArt have a love for these old aircrafts, and are saddened when they see these mag[...]

Freshaire Paints - Healthly and Sustainable

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Healthy and sustainable paints have not been the most popular topic in the Interior Design world, but lately they have been gaining some traction. Initially these paints were sought out by people with allergies, those that are chemically sensitive and mothers who were pregnant or had young children at home. Now some professionals are using “green” paints m[...]

Tie Dye is To Die For

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Many of you might have noticed that the tie dye trend is back on the runways, however it has entered the interior design realm too. Far from the far out, summer of love, traditional tie dye trend, the new tie dye is all about modern, monochromatic style. Companies like Full Moon Loom make tie dye sophisticated with their gorgeous, handmade tapestry which can[...]