Trends 1992/1993

Cheerful optimism

• A yerning for the archaic and the romantic. Memories of the joy of discovery in childhood.
  
• The cheerful naive playfulness of a doll’s house in central shades mixed with the brilliant hues – like a bunch of fresh, brightly colored wild flowers – casts a magic spelt-
  
• Buoyant arrangements of fresh green, rich blue and bright red, are excitingly arranges to create a sense of careless ease.
  
• Mediterranean hues and natural-looking materials call for the enacting of new harmonies and opposites.
  
• An uncomplicated look, yet coupled with sophistication in detail. Feeling fine in a “shabby chic”.
  
• A play with unexpected dimensions: furniture oversizes and miniaturized. Colorful and playful interiors with unique items of furniture, “dressed up” in textiles, createsan atmosphere of cosiness and contrasts.

Decayed elegance

• Timeless beauty arouses a longing for the luxury of the past. Joy in opulence combines with an appreciation of unassuming things to form a sensitive balance.
  
• Themes like “oriental décor” and a “new awareness of life in lost worlds” point to a vita tha encourages extravagance.
  
•  Faded-looking medium tones combined with a velvety dark palette yield astonishing effects often reminiscent of patina moods.
  
• The personal life style is expressed in unique items raised to the status of art, whose morbid yet noble character is often imbued with the spirit of past ages.

From nature to culture

• A desire to be closer to nature, yet bound up with the trend toward urbanization. City life today, but with elements of country life.
  
• Natural colors in the city, all neutral hues sensitively combined with the dark green, aubergine and brown shades. Warm and cold alternate, and natural colors are given a new and modern interpretation.
  
• Tress, sand and earth in an urban environment, abstract nature. A caressing eclecticism, blending our urban and natural dreams to evoke the modern, human world.
  
• Unexpected materials reveal this new naturalness: wood, straw, raffia, cork or linen, in sculptural arrangements and combinations. A new interpretation imparting a sense of harmony with nature, a ZEN-feeling.

Memory of time

• Recollections of times past and a play with historical elements. Equal status for old and new.Neo-classicism and modern contrasts bend in an autumnal colors scheme: broken yellow, orange and apricot, the entire natural palette with ecru and dark brown, complemented by warm and cold neutral hues.
  
• Existing elements are reinterpreted and places in a topical and individual context. This includes the reworking of forms and the recycling of materials like wood, glass, ceramic and plastics.
  
• The state of this art is low-tech, reducing technical influences and moving toward a hand-made look.
  
• Contrasts like round – angular, light – dark and masculine – feminine generate an equilibrium between traditional classic and modern comfort.