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Alicia Keys’ living room teaches how to decorate with art |
Everyone loves art, but styling it can bring up hundreds of interior design questions. How should you pair furniture with art? Should you buy art to match your space, or just choose pieces you love? Luckily, Alicia Keys is here to provide some answers. The singer took to Instagram to share that she and her husband, Swizz Beatz, were lending art from their collection, the Dean Collection, to the Brooklyn Museum, offering a view into her artistically designed living room. The space is a lesson in decorating with art – starting with the colorful and textural pieces that juxtapose the neutral paint and furnishings. San Francisco-based interior designer Soledad Alzaga…
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Robert A. M. Stern’s new twin, sweeping bell-shaped St. Regis Residences in Miami’s Financial District mirrors the city’s famed Art Deco tradition
Miami, Florida, United states Robert A. M. Stern and his design and style crew at RAMSA with each other with Rockwell Group and Swiss landscape architects Enea Garden Layout have developed two new Miami residential towers for developers Related Team and Integra Investments at the edge of Biscayne Bay with a sweeping bell-shaped footprint that will be instantly recognizable with rounded sorts and a glass design that attracts on the city’s Artwork Deco and Miami Present day heritage. Adapted for 21st-Century residing, the twin structures will present iconic views to the water, south across Biscayne Bay, and north to the lights of Downtown Miami. The two-tower residence, with lavish interiors…
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Ennead reveals design for garden-intertwined art museum in Wuxi, China
Now approaching a ten years in procedure, the bustling Shanghai studio of New York–headquartered Ennead Architects has exposed its level of competition-winning design and style for a key arts and cultural hub in Wuxi, a historic port city of about 5 million residents in the petite-but-populous eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu. Found inside of the city’s lakefront Shangxianhe Wetland Park, the forthcoming new Wuxi Artwork Museum, considerably like the firm’s structure for the new Milwaukee General public Museum, attracts direct inspiration from regional geology shaped more than the eons by the arms of character. With the circumstance of the Wuxi Art Museum, the sprawling, multi-quantity complicated pays homage to Gongshi—or…
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15 Bathrooms That Will Take You Back To The Art Nouveau Era
Hendrickson Photography/Shutterstock Popular from the 1890s through 1910, the Art Nouveau style is known for its curved, flowing lines and silhouettes on everything from architectural elements to furniture, glassware, and pottery. A reaction to the stuffy ornateness of Victorian design that preceded it, this décor style presented a simplified, nature-inspired design that appealed to homeowners, who appreciated its grace and glamour. Art Nouveau, meaning “new art” or “art of the new,” is often considered in relation to other art movements that were popular or developing at the time, including the Arts and Crafts trend, which shared Art Nouveau’s love of florals and botanicals, and Art Deco, which would incorporate many…
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What does your home — your furniture, colors, art — say about you?
I have interviewed hundreds of designers over the years, and I often ask this same question: What makes you cringe when you walk into someone’s home? I expect them to say something like bad taste, too much clutter, no sense of proportion — but universally, their answer is this: lack of personality. Our homes say a lot about us, and ideally, the goal is for our homes to reflect the best version of us, not the too timid, too busy or too boring version. So when a pitch from a publicist promised that her client, interior designer Margarita Bravo, could reveal “what the aesthetics of someone’s home reveal about their…
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20 Savvy Ways To Bring Art Into Your Bathroom
Whether you’re a fan of pop art, prefer impressionist art, or happen to adore abstract art, you might be interested in finding ways to add artistic hints to the various rooms in your home. While it might seem rather obvious how to do that when it comes to your living room, bedroom, or even kitchen, the fact is you might find it a little harder to think of appropriate ways to add touches of creativity to your bathroom. Frankly, while you surely want the space to be just as stylish as every other room in your home, it’s important to remember that a bathroom primarily needs to be functional. That’s…
