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Category: TRENDS
The best and latest lifestyle and design trends and inspiration.
Ultra luxury, the new superlative of design
First, there was the need to have something above your head. Then you made that beautiful. Later, you noticed that others have it even more beautiful and defined the term: luxurious in the English language started happening in the seventeenth century. Coming from a French term underscored by sexual meaning, luxury first referred to indulgence,…
Bond With Your Environment
Over three millennia of cosmology, osmosis, Fengshui, psychology and now, Selftropy tells us that influences exist between us and our environment. It’s here; it’s real; it’s useful-bank on it. In a world where experience is everything, why limit yourself to the tangible when you can have so much more? The borders of real and surreal, virtual…
IDS Toronto 2023 in review (Interior Design Show)
Cheers to a new and beautiful year of design! Let’s celebrate the creative minds of the design industry, the forward thinking visionaries and manufacturers and take a look at the new aesthetics of 2023: MICROPLANTS Beautiful structures for all your microplants needs☘️ OUTDOOR LIVING IN CONTRASTS Black and white have never looked so good!👇 A…
2023 Kitchen design trends
The most reinvented room in your home is the kitchen. By far. Because of that, following the kitchen trends can be very insightful in what new living patterns are concerned. Here are some of the ones that I’ve spotted with my keen (22-year and counting) professional eye that I’m sure will fill in the 2023…
TRENDS 2022 Design Retrospective
Interior design is one of the greatest modes of personal expression. Over the past few years people have spent more time at home than ever before. In turn, they have started to hone in on their personal aesthetic, and create rooms that feel right to them. By focusing on the pieces that bring joy, colours…
A much needed lifestyle trend change for Fall: social-islands and the fight against loneliness
When Malinowski coined the ubiquitous term in the 1920s, nuclear families had been at the root of most societies for more than 500 years; yet that was not always the case. In history, we see other constructs that have been much more successful in delivering a wide range of impressive lifestyle benefits as, both, precursors…
3 Lifestyle Trends for Summer: confidence, self-care and incompleteness syndrome
My top 3 picks for this spring: Confidence at ease gets everyone smitten, Bite-size home self-care democratizes design, and incompleteness syndrome turns into a positive mantra Incompleteness syndrome turns into a positive mantra Most things in our lives are on the go. Seldom can we see a chapter fully closed and when we do, that…
Over the top hotels and Blue Zone lifestyle, two major trends for this Spring
Needless to say, they both have to do with leisure, health and wellbeing. At some point enough is enough and one has to admit that this is the world we live in. While risks have changed, life must go on and, with adjusted responsibility and awareness, we should continue to travel and explore this beautiful…
The No.1 lifestyle trend to pop open the New Year: 2022 and the sophisticated luxuries of the everyday
RE-SHAPE YOUR LIFE from what you do, to where and how you live, to who you spend your time with. This is the overarching trend that will take center stage in 2022. It is not a generalization. It is an expression of a widespread need for total life revamp. At first sight, this does not…
Health above all else and a look at how the three toughest 2021 trends shaped my design ideas
Health above all else is what shaped pretty much everything this past year. As much as this is a fact at any point in life for anyone and in every century, this year we’ve been globally reminded of our own mortality. The solidarity that ensued, even with its systemic flaws here and there, stood proof…
Blue is the new black and 10 things to do with it
If you have not seen it yet, look again. Blue has entered the market and is here to stay for a bit longer. Unlike the stark black, elegant, yes, but unforgiving to dust and fingerprints, blue offers a surprise – especially the darker one. Together with green, blue is one of the colours…