Interior design has gone through drastic esthetic changes over the past 10 – 15 years. We’ve seen the traditional opulence of the ’80s and early ’90s transition to a spare, modern and mid-century-influenced look in the 2000s. Recently, a very eclectic approach has evolved, and its given the homeowner an opportunity to inject more of …
What sells well at the moment? Despite the overall economic downturn, some areas of the art market are performing extremely well. This has come as a surprise to many people, as usually the art market suffers during times of economic decline. This recession, however, has seen consumers seeking refuge in luxury items and brands, gold …
"It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be,” says interior designer and lifestyle expert Moll Anderson. This phrase, a personal favourite of hers, is from her first book, Change Your Home, Change Your Life (Thomas Nelson, 2006), a saying that echoes the words of renowned author George Eliot, and one that …
For Los Angeles-based designers Ron Woodson and Jaime Rummerfield, beautifying spaces isn’t about dedicating blueprints to particular times or places. It’s about expressing relationships: affairs between scale and texture, vocabularies of colour and proportion. It’s about unions of the old and the new – the modern and vintage – or what the design pair has …
Whether renting or buying, these works fuse life with splendour and an artist’s unique view of life. 1. In Mark Strutt’s “Big Thinkers,” dark cracks and wrinkles contrast the soft dirt-covered faces on a pair of solemn elephants, allowing the audience to share a simple moment of peaceful intrigue with two serene giants. www.thefocusgallery.ca 2. …
It was a right royal night in 2008 when Tricia Guild found out that the Queen was appointing her to design a collection of fabrics and wall coverings influenced by the dignified décor of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. “I was pretty shocked and a little nervous, but delighted to have been chosen,” says Guild, …
