London Design Week opened this week and we were at the Chelsea Design Centre bright and early on Monday morning to explore the new trends that the interior design brands have presented.
Bold Wallpapers
While we don't exclusively follow trends, we do need to be aware of them and consider whether they will fit into our projects in a meaningful way. Trends also help us to understand the direction that design takes and gives us an indication of what is popular at the moment.
What really stood out for us was the striking use of wallpapers and wall coverings. Bright and bold botanicals, paisley inspired designs, layers of raffia fringing and just so much more.
Maximalism
The bold wallpapers falls into a wider movement that we’ve seen over the last few years - Maximalism. While we’ve discussed this before, it’s interesting to see it playing out. It started off with overstuffed styling and that Gucci-esque approach of bold colours and patterns being mixed up.
Maximalism is clearly mainstream now, and as you can see from these images, it’s all about layers. Layering lighting and products in complimentary single tones to the wall coverings avoids pattern and colour clashes.
Monochrome
Hard to call this a trend, as it’s an established style and look, but it’s clearly back with bang. Strong vertical lines, and layers of black and white objet and furniture. But interestingly, it’s a maximalist approach to monochrome and not the traditional sleek and minimal lines that we know this style to represent.
What works for your project?
As we said above, trends come and go and they’re great to challenge the status quo. At the end of the day, you need to think about who is going to live in the space and what works for their lifestyle.
If you've seen anything here that you particularly like or dislike, do let us know by hitting reply, we'd love to discuss this with you.