Art in Interior Design

Paintings, glass works, sculpture, ceramics - art can take many forms as well as convey diverse mood. Artwork in interior design can establish a focal point and define a palette for an entire home.

Modern, sleek interiors leave room for a nice art collection benefiting from eye-catching contemporary art pieces from abstract compositions to pop art creations. Modern art can be also featured in transitional rooms as the streamlined design connects traditional and contemporary elements. Especially framed art prints are a very affordable way to bring contemporary art in interior design. There's another abundant source of contemporary art - local artists who create one-of-a-kind pieces.

Sometimes it can be quite a challenge to develop a portfolio of art prints for house-staging, an office or restautrant as it is very important to match the artwork to the architecture and age of the building and to ensure that art pieces provide some continuity for the space. The old architecture would require antique or classic art rather than contemporary or abstract work. An acceptable alternatives to original art can be high quality print reproductions as focal pieces on the main walls in a house as well as in the lobby of a hotel or behind the reception desk in an office.

[via architecturaldigest.com and charlesfaudree.com}

Interior Design - Beautiful and Trendy Boutique Hotel the French Pays Basque

This exquisite boutique hotel is actually a villa on the Basque coast between Biarritz and St-Jean-de-Luz. Residing on the heights, Villa Arguibel overlooks the ocean on one side. On the other side you'll enjoy a terrific view with a drink from the bar on the terrace.
The typical spacious Basque house with neo-Basque architecture presents the local architecture in its best. The interior design combines the antique furniture with contemporary designer works, fabrics and tiles overlapping with exquisite taste.

The owners Mariannick and Francis Blasselle, a young couple, are passionate about contemporary art and fanciful decor. They have realized their dream by building this gem on a family plot to offer another version of the charming hotels.

Flawless White Interior of Queen of Clean of New York, NY

via NY Times
This is a tiny appartment of Barbara Roche Fierman, the owner of New York’s Little Elves - a cleaning service.

Her East Village apartment, designed by Oskar Torres, looks micro-stain-free and tiny - the living room is 10 feet wide, yet cozy, and it's how it's supposed to be for the Lady of Cleanliness of Manhattan.

Residential Interior Design - Traditional Family Room

by David Mitchell

 
The family room where you can gather with those you love is supposed to be a place which brings a cozy feel, whether they look edgy and modern or traditional and coordinated with a fine mixture of antiques and classic. There's some modern interior design ideas to inspire and admire by designer's projects of traditional family room.

by Cook Architectural Design Studio

The main concept is to keep it cozy with comfortable seating in earth-tone upholstery, with restrained modern furniture, or with cashmere throws and pillows.

Hollywood Regency Style in Interior Design

Hollywood Regency style emerged in the 1930s, when celebrities like Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford started decorating their homes with glamour and glitz flavor on the advice of the famous interior designers of the time Dorothy Draper and William Haines. It's modern version is growing in popularity upheld by designers like David Jimenez, the vice president of visual merchandising and store design for Hallmark Cards.
The designer's projects reveal his passion for design and his eye for detail. He also writes a monthly interior design column for Kansas City Spaces (spaceskc.com) that defines his stylish interiors as "a study in elegant living--Cary Grant meets modern style".