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By Nadine Phillipp -- Gifts and Dec, 12/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
What will the dominant colours for home accessories be? What will an attractive tabletop look like in 2010? And how does the mood of society affect living and furnishing trends? The bora.herke style agency will be giving an overview of the trends at the Ambiente fair scheduled for February 12–16. The designers will be staging products from Ambiente exhibitors as they relate to four style worlds, thus bringing the trends to life. The four styles are...
Redefined Classics
The word retro-design is an inadequate description of many revamped design classics. It’s not purely about reviving specific techniques, forms, colors and ideas but more about emphasizing modern redevelopments or surprising reinterpretations. Bringing classics back to life is closely associated with a desire for quality and longevity. Considerable value is still placed on harmonizing design, materials and workmanship.
Highly Personal
A modern, contemporary vintage look will be invading the home in 2010. Tweed and patchwork looks and jacquards in powdery, pale colors are frequently found among the home textiles. Tabletops are simple featuring ceramics and porcelain in clean, unfussy outlines. Embellishments are rare and where they do crop up they are in the form of fine, delicate patterns and floral motifs. In many cases the vintage look is combined in an unconventional way with collected pieces, the homemade and personal souvenirs. This creates a highly personal style, with the emphasis on creativity and emotionality.
High End Value
Quality and tradition, comfort and well-being bring opposites together: Modernity and classicism, tradition and timelessness. Rich smooth leather and suede, creamy and shiny surfaces, precious stones, marble and elaborately crafted quilting and upholstery, the material here is top quality. Crystal and Murano glass are used, often in unusual material combinations or in intense colors. Gold and bronze and dark woods are used in this style direction. Warm colors like dark brown, camel and saffron contrast with a broken white. The designs are as much inspired by stones, agate and marble as by historic and classic patterns.
Top Quality Craftmanship
Wastefulness and depreciation are no longer readily accepted. High standards of craftsmanship, quality and value-consciousness are becoming more important. Recycling has become creative and original. Improvisation and mixing and matching abound, but all at a high level of craftsmanship. Natural materials like raffia, rattan, cork or wood are lovingly crafted and combined with the hand-woven, the knitted and the crocheted.
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