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is a definite increase in the desire to commission or source handmade craft pieces. Our clients want to feel connected with a piece and experience the energy of the maker – a shift away from industrially produced pieces.” Maddux Creative designed a breakfast room around a client’s collection of Ettore Sotsass glass vases, with the cabinetry echoing their palette and curvaceous forms. The banquette is upholstered in matching Whistler Leather and the room is topped off with a dynamic chandelier. “If a client has a beautiful piece of furniture that
they are connected to like their grandmother’s slipper chair or a chest of drawers I think it is really important to incorporate them,” says Todhunter. “It
is really
important that one interlaces history and objects that your client
is connected to because then the rooms
speak about them,” This is also true for commercial clients. “I always need my projects to have a sense of storytelling about them,” says Luke Edward Hall, “at the beginning of a project, coming up with a story myself gives me an anchor to build the design around. An imagined story also helps me give proper meaning to a project, and a kind of fantasy. With hospitality projects, there is no individual client
in need of a
personal interior, a restaurant or hotel can live in its own world and demands its own backstory, its own cast of characters.” Whether going into a private home or a hotel,
“people want to arrive in rooms that that feel they’ll have a good time in. It is more about the mixture about finding that key thing that speaks to them; it could be carpet, a textile and then you hang the rest of the scheme off that,” says Plant. Comfort is also right up there as a key consideration. “Both physical comfort in that the space works well, serves its purpose and has comfortable furniture but also emotional comfort in that the space makes us feel comfortable in ourselves when inhabiting that
space,” says interior designer
Kate Guinness. “Our new way of life means we are spending much more time in our homes and this idea of comfort has become even more important.” The pandemic has also made us realise our rooms
need to be multifunctional. “An interesting thing to come out of the past year is people are looking at their homes differently,” says Todhunter. “They are asking what does this room have to do for me? It can’t just be the drawing room that we go into on Sunday for a gin and tonic before lunch or for a fire in the evening – it has to do more than that.” Scott Maddux points out that the home is now, “a space for living, entertaining, relaxing, working and ultimately a refuge and a sanctuary from the chaos and uncertainty of the outside world.” It is no wonder then that people are requiring more from the interior and looking towards the quirky, bold and colourful to lift their spirits and entertain them.
TOP: A breakfast room by Maddux Creative was designed around a clients’ collection of Ettore Sotsass glass vases.
The curvaceous banquette is upholstered in matching ‘Bilbao’ leather in green tea from Whistler Leather. BELOW: The mural in Beata Heuman’s daughter’s bedroom is a copy of the one at the Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle hotel in New York
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