In Bloom - Home Trends
Flamboyant rugs, hand-painted wallcoverings, flower-infused furniture: this season designers remind us that though we may be spending more time at home, our living spaces shouldn’t feel confined or colorless. These inspirational objects promise to bring the freshness of spring inside.
Märchen by Nicole Fuller
Luxury wallpaper brand Fromental collaborated with New York based designer Nicole Fuller for ‘Märchen’—German for fairy tale—which was inspired Fuller’s childhood memories, her favorite flower, the peony, and the artist Cy Twombly. The hand-painted design features dripping peonies clustered across the silk wall covering and is available in seven different color combinations.
Grow Floor Lamp by REM Studio
After observing the way houseplants placed in window frames tend to cling to the windows as they grow toward the light, Rotterdam-based REM Atelier took three-dimensional, layered pictures of plants—a zebra plant, fiddle leaf fig, fan palm and elephant ear—and placed them into a light box to create a hyper realistic illusion. “The works question how we take the outside world in,” the studio says, “containing a piece of nature between the walls of our own habitat.”
Reva Twist
by Patrick Jouin
Pedrali began fashioning wrought iron garden furniture in the 1960s and the brand continues to design pieces for the outdoors, although in sleeker, lighter forms. Smooth lines shape the thin, clean frames of this three-seater sofa and lounge armchair by French designer Patrick Jouin, while the use of polyurethane chords with die-cast aluminum ensure the structure is lightweight, easily moved, and stackable when not in use. “The Reva can be moved to be near the swimming pool, to follow the sun, or for storage,” the designer says. “I would not call it an object; it is a design to enable comfortable situations and moments.”
The Eclectic Yard Collection
by Paula Cademartori
Italian-Brazilian designer Paula Cademartori first made a splash with colorful street-style accessories worn by Beyoncé and Lady Gaga; now the fashionista lends her love of art, flora and architecture to a rug line for Illulian Limited Edition. The Eclectic Yard collection features organic shapes, vibrant colors and stylized geometries across a series of hand-knotted rugs made with Himalayan wool and silk.
Flora Low Coffee Table
by Marcin Rusak Studio
Polish-born, London-based designer Marcin Rusak has reinvented the art of floral arranging with his cast-resin furniture line. The son and grandson of flower growers, Rusak looks for color and sculptural form when selecting blossoms that he carefully submerges in an expanse of matte black resin. The result has a painterly quality reminiscent of chiaroscuro where light and shadow create contrasts that suggest relief and depth.
Oblique
by Vincent Van Duysen
Van Duysen’s table lamp was inspired by a new technology developed by Flos that combines LEDs and lenses. The lenses only require a thin amount of space to produce a bright and bundled beam of light, which falls ‘obliquely’ from the luminaire head onto the table. The light has a 355-degree rotatable stem and is available in a range of colors to fit any workspace.