According to my year-at-a-glance calendar, Wednesday's from now on are going to be rather futuristic days for me. Currently I have Wednesday's slotted out exclusively for researching today's "Modern Trends in Design". As a child of the 80s, you must understand that to me, "Modern" means futuristic. While 1950s television shows consisted mostly of Westerns and family centered sitcoms, I grew up watching TV shows like The Jetsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, Buckaroo Banzai, and 2001 the Space Odyssey. (My childhood was shaped by watching movies and tv, LOL) By 2020 we were all supposed to be riding around in flying cars while having our personal robots serve us blue drinks and powdered foods housed in brightly colored capsules.
WHO'S WHO
When I began brainstorming what to write about on the unique subject matter of "Modern Trends in Tin Storage and Metal Design" (man does that sound drab), the thought occurred to me I had no idea who the current designers outside of HGTV and Instagram were. While I am certainly aware of the grand "houses" of design, (RL, Chanel, LVMH, etc) up until this evening I was completely deficient in the "who's who" of top designers in the WORLD. Maybe I STILL watch too much TV. :/
(Side note, there appeared to be a central theme among most (if not all) top designers in the world, as far as 2019 was concerned, they all use METAL in their designs rather heavily. Brass, tin, steel, aluminum, powder coated, oxidized - you name it. Metal is NOW and metal is EVERYWHERE) Here are four of the top ten designers in the world I chose to spotlight, according to Essential Home, 2019.
JEAN LOUIS DENIOT
Jean-Louis Denoit is so on trend he doesn't need a website. At 45 years old this fabulous leading world wide designer doesn't just follow trends he makes them. Here is what Architectural Digest has to say:
"Jean-Louis Deniot’s travel schedule reads like the index of a world atlas. Since establishing his Paris-based architecture and interior-design firm at age 26, nearly two decades ago, the French native has risen to global design-star status. Known for luxurious and eclectic, yet decidedly contemporary interiors, the AD100 designer currently has projects on five continents, from Beverly Hills to Manhattan, London to Moscow, and in alluring destinations such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, New Delhi, and Chandigarh, as well as both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, in Tarifa and Tangier.
Given his far-flung exploits, Deniot’s Los Angeles getaway, nestled in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, serves as a well-earned retreat. “When the weather is nasty in Paris I jump on a plane and come to beautiful La La Land,” he says with a boyish grin, adding, “The light in Los Angeles is the most beautiful in the world.”
Here are a few of his designed spaces, note the vintage vibe and metallic finishes from the brass stair rail to light fixtures, and even the dining room table legs boast a polished finish.
You can read more about Jean-Louis and his own Los Angeles home here: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ad100-designer-jean-louis-deniot-reveals-his-historic-la-la-land-abode
ROBERT COUTURIER
Robert Couturier is one of the most well esteemed designers in all of New York City. According to his rather admirable wikipedia post:
"At 57 years old, Elle Decor included Mr. Couturier in its A-list Top 60 Designers and British House & Garden named him one of the top 10 foreign decorators. In 1987 as a relatively inexperienced designer, Robert Couturier was given the single greatest private commission of modern times: the re-conception, execution, and continuous embellishment - down to the last gilded detail - of Sir James Goldsmith’s 20,000-acre kingdom on the Pacific Coast of Mexico."
Here are some of his designed spaces... are you beginning to see the same trend I am? Each of these rooms has an upholstered chair (either fabric or leather) with a metallic finish. The table legs, and sofa legs, plus a few lamps as well carry on the shine of a tintype finish.
You can discover more about Robert Couturier by going directly to his website and drooling through his many glamorously designed spaces: http://www.robertcouturier.com/
KELLY WEARSTLER
According to the website Essential Home:
"Kelly Wearstler‘s global luxury lifestyle brand is marked by its distinctive designs and sophisticated soulful character. Wearstler’s signature style juxtaposes raw with refined, melds sophistication and spirited spontaneity, and brings together diverse periods of furniture. Her portfolio includes luxury hotels and grand residences from Beverly Hills to the Caribbean, and throughout the rest of the world."
As I was looking through dozens of photos of Kelly's designs, what I found most interesting was that she is most known for her use of period piece furniture in modern design. She clearly favors gold finishes - in these three pictures - but should you choose to dig deeper into her eclectic and vintage array of designs, you will see she has a love for all things modern and cool.
You can read more about Kelly and view her gallery of work by visiting her website: https://www.kellywearstler.com/
KELLY HOPPEN
"Hoppen began her career at 16 when she was given the opportunity to design a family friend's kitchen. She has designed for a number of celebrities, including David and Victoria Beckham; and Martin Shaw, who was one of her early clients. She has designed the homes, yachts and jets of private clients, as well as commercial projects in several countries, including hotels, restaurants, offices and aircraft. Some of Hoppen's most recent projects include a collaboration with Disney to celebrate Mickey Mouse's 90th anniversary, the Celebrity Edge cruise ship for Celebrity Cruises, an ultra luxury residential tower block in Taiwan, One Park Taipei, and LUX* Grand Gaube hotel, the second hotel she has designed for LUX* in Mauritius." Kelly Hoppen, wiki
Out of all our designers so far, Kelly Hoppen has a bit of a different approach. When you visit her website, you will be nicely greeted with a 20% off pop-up advertisement for shopping online and then once you enter the site, you will be able to shop some of her absolutely gorgeous pieces. I have selected three photos of Kelly's designed spaces which CONFIRMS my initial suspension - I am going to need to begin incorporating MORE metal in my home design!:))
You can visit Kelly's website (and go shopping!) here: https://www.kellyhoppen.com/
YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
Have you ever heard it said, "You can't go home again - you can never go back."? I have found this to be all too true. I lamented for years early on in my marriage about the days I missed being carefree and living at home with my parents during a more simple time. No, we can't ever get the 50, 60, 70, 80s back. No, we won't ever be able to reverse time and sit once again as an 8 year old at our mother's table eating vanilla ice cream and oreo cookies. Those days are past, we can never go "home" again. The home we once knew.
I propose this instead... how about we don't try to relive our past but instead we "Don't just go home again, we go home again BETTER" why don't we work to create places to live which inspire us from the inside out. Just like the greatest designers of all time do. Let's recreate the things we once LOVED about the homes of our youth, and then begin incorporating the things we LOVE about home decor and our current design NOW? What if instead of following some mainstream trend while regurgitating yet another magazine/pinterest/insta design we pulled from our past looked forward to the new and took our lackluster spaces to the next level by successfully melding the two?
Yes our past was a minute ago, what's done is done - but what I can see by studying where design is going.... our futures are polished bright, and right in front of us for the taking, should we choose to!
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