The past few years in home design have been all about ornament, decorative frills and, above all, color.
Welcome to the backlash.
This year every forum for design, from the new furniture collections to the hot colors for stone and marble to the Maison & Objet show in Paris, has shown a taste for black and white. Call it, as one observer did, a yearning for absolutes in unsteady times. Or perhaps homeowners’ are rebelling against the challenges of designing, and living, with bright hues.
One thing the trend doesn’t represent is a rejection of the new ornamentation: many of the best new pieces in black and white boast lines that dress up a room and boggle the eye, like Brocade Home’s lace cut cabinet, above. If anything, some designers are emboldened by the idea that their wildest ideas will be balanced by the combination’s classic formality. You read it here first, in black and white.
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