Fall trends for your home

 With the cold weather coming, it is wise to look for some ways to transform our homes into a cozy winter retreat. One of the main trends this year in interior design is the increased use of copper and brass - they both are warm metals and definitely will help you with this. Adding a touch of copper or brass here and there will make your interior much more warm and welcoming. If you like the charm of ancient crafts a lamp like this one can transform completely the atmosphere at you home:
Desiree Metal Bell Pendant Lamp
If, like me, you prefer the mellow beauty of copper, try to warm your home byadding some copper accent pieces:
IMAX 44191-3 Palmer Copper-Plated Tall Vases
Hammered copper provides both - visual and textural interest. 

This Oval Hammered Copper Party Tub is a great way to chill drinks for any party - whether indoors or out. This tub is also ready for everyday use! Use it to store firewood by your fireplace! Place it in your living room to catch magazines and books. Free Shipping.
And for a more modern style, the designer to look for is Tom Dixon - he is a great example of modern way of using copper and applying crafts. His Void Pendant Light reference the Olympic medals with three metallic finishes: brass, polished stainless steel and copper. Inspired by vacuum flasks, these mysterious lighting objects conceal a powerful halogen lamp that concentrates the light to create a soft directional beam. Solid metal sheets are pressed, spun and braised to form a double wall shade. They are hand polished to create a mirror surface which is lacquered to maintain a high gloss finish. Void makes use of existing techniques and regular fittings - the innovation lies in the undulating form of the shade:
Void Mini Pendant by Tom Dixon

Void Pendant Light 

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Beat Light Pendant - Fat by Tom Dixon is part of a series of lights inspired by the handmade brass cooking pots and water vessels found in India. Made from spun and hand-beaten brass, the interior retains its golden reflective quality while the exterior is painted a contrasting Matte Black. Also available in Stout, Tall and Wide versions.

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This Cast Mini Jack by Tom Dixon is a petite aluminum version of the original polyethylene Jack, that "sitting, stacking, lighting thing" first designed in 1994. At less than 5 inches tall, the hefty Mini Jack is ideal as a paperweight or doorstop. It is also the perfect decorative piece, with its distinctive lines gleaming in a warm Copper plate.
Step Pendant - Tall by Tom Dixon - made out of spun copper, which is then finished with a White powder-coat on the exterior and a Clear lacquer on the interior. The white stands in crisp contrast to the polished copper's warm, burnished glow. Exquisit!


Etch Candleholder by Tom Dixon

Copper Shade Pendant


Especially the Copper trend has been huge now for quite some time and since this is one of my favourite materials, I have dedicated to it a lot of posts - get some inspiration!

Soft sorage furniture

 No, I am not talking about sofas and poufs - I am talking about wardrobes! We have seen some examples of textile used in storage furniture, but this already becomes a stable trend: the 26 years old German designer Meike Harde's textile furniture series London consists of a wardrobe, a cabinet as well as a bag-like storage object. 
The Organisers from Tent and Super Brands London invited Meike Harde to participate at SUPER DESIGN GALLERY during the Design Festival.

We know the designer from her ingenious Zieharsofika collection that appeared last year and I think that this direction of her new designs is part of the beginning of new trend in furniture design.

Complete overlap between trends in fashion and interior design

at least what concerns colours, as we can see from the ELLE's New York Fashion Week trend reports:

- black and white is proving its staying power:

Ralph Lauren Spring 2014 Ready-to-Wear Collection

and GRAPHIC

                                  Diane von Furstenberg Spring 2014 Ready-to-Wear Collection

- pastels:

Tory Burch Spring 2014 Ready-to-Wear Collection

- metallics:

Gucci Kim Metallic Leather Lace-Up Bootie

Diane von Furstenberg Spring 2014 Ready-to-Wear Collection

And in interior design:

Pastels are a major trend in interior design since the beginning of the year, as we have seen from the first design events and untill the latest ones:

designjunction at London Design Festival 2013

designjunction at London Design Festival 2013

Copper Inspiration from Tom Dixon

The same allplies for Graphic design and metallics, too,

 but more posts on the theme will follow soon.

The London Design Festival 2013

Two trends that I notice and that I like very much: graphic design and
African-inspired design:

Darkroom So Sottsass cushions

A graphic cork installation by FAT architecture for cork producer Amorim lines one of the V&A's walkways. Photography: Ed Reeves source

Lights by Atelier de Troupe

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Richard Brendon for Paternity

 Ade cushion, made with vintage West African wax cloth and part of a limited edition run. 

Hand-woven basket from Northern Ghana

,  All of these beautiful designs are part of Graphic Africa, an exhibition of African design at London’s Platform Gallery.

Another trend in interior design that is also noticed during London Design festival 2013 is the renewal of eclectic.