Interior Design 2011: Top lines and directions
Era of Electic simplicity. As we were taught at one time, there is a basis - the economy, and all sorts of add-ins, including fashion styles, must follow the dictates of the base. Here and interior design in the ahead years will be adapting to international economic realities.
Significantly will reduced interest in the classical style as the style of abundance times. But will strengthen the position of minimalism and “space” or technological reasons in the design. Everything in design is moving in the direction of the “minimalist functionalism”, when even a diminutive shelf hangs not just like “furniture”, but also to place on it the concrete right thing.
The manner of interior is now committed to purity and simplicity. Therefore, the union of the living room and kitchen, the so-called studio, will increasingly occur among the work of designers. The living will not change much, but from the kitchen, customer will expect more of aesthetics and functionality at the same time: to clean the kitchen work surface from a variety of diminutive appliances, integrate more technology into the furniture.
All European and American design guru in theirs job tied again to the economic crisis. Accordingly, the most fashionable are inexpensive materials, such as various plastics. However, wood will be fashionable too, as well as other natural materials such as natural wool.
Clear stylistic limitations simply impossible today. Therefore, in the modern interior mainstream - it’s an eclectic (a mixture of styles).
Four international trends. Each year, the organizers of the January exhibition in Cologne, published the book Interior Trends, describing the “fashionable” trends for the new year. In the new release of Interior Trends 2011, which was presented to the public was named four dominant trends of the new year.
“Emotional Astringency.” The elegant environment will be created in discreet solutions, but without the coldness of minimalism. Natural materials (wood, leather, felt, fabric) and natural soft colors - for example, “earthy” with a splash of olive pink and brown tones.
“Surprised Empathy.” Light will look heavier and bulkier, and heavy - lighter. Light and elastic materials will be contrasted with the rough. The main color is gray cold combined with black and ashy and splashes of lemon and orange, well-balanced gray-brown. And forms will gravitate to the angularity.
“Rebalancing”. Subjects will try to give the rounded form, to provide them with soft cushions, upholstery made of cloth or sheepskin.
Preference - natural materials, knitted, wool, hand-spinning even upholstery. Colors: Warm colored-rhubarb, creamy-white, corn-yellow and yellow-brown.
“Transformation of perspective”. It would be archaic, crude, or even kitsch form, polished and matte surfaces, composite materials of mineral, glass. The main will blue-plum, in emphasis - shades of lavender and gray-blue.