Khoi Vo, CEO of the American Society of Interior Designers If that was wasn’t enough, a dense blanket of smoke from record wildfires in Canada fell over the Northeast that same month, placing the designer and more than 100 million other Americans under “hazardous” air quality warnings. Once she and the contractors did get back on-site, it was still so persistently wet that they had to make a Home Depot run for dehumidifiers just to install the wood flooring. “The job was delayed for five weeks because the road completely washed away and there was no access to the house at all,” Miles recalls. Then came the rains-days of deluge so extreme, the National Weather Service named it The Great Vermont Flood of July 2023. With her design approved, materials sourced, and installs scheduled throughout the summer, everything was on track for the client to begin enjoying their home by early November. Jesse Dorrisĭesigners have a new role to play: preparing clients for otherworldly heat, smoke, storms, and floodsįor New England designer Lauren Miles, it was an ideal project: a ski-in, ski-out vacation home near Killington, the swank resort in central Vermont. That’s a lot of weight for a Bellini sofa to hold-but then, good design speaks to the present and future, no matter if we only think of it as a piece of the past. And I think in reflection of that, the creative class is saying, ‘We’re not going back to tradition we’re going to break with tradition.’” “Not to get too political, but right now there are forces in our culture that believe in minority rule. “That time was a focus on the self and being able to self-define in a way that was personal but also larger,” Rolston says. That could also mean releasing themselves from the trend cycle altogether and embracing the opportunity to play, get things wrong, and move along. If we are drawn to a period when rules were being broken, designers can use that inspiration to break the rules today. That wasn’t only a futurist idea, about breaking down the physical and social dynamics of sitting-a sofa that didn’t look like a ‘sofa,’ a chair that didn’t look like a ‘chair.’ And that means you can creatively interact with it, which feels like the free spirit of the era.” “In the ’70s, we rejected typology,” he says, “like the sofa or the wingback chair as classical typologies. “What’s fresh today,” the designer says, “is definitely the mix of different patterns, materiality, textures, and periods.”įor Rolston, an open-minded outlook is equally mandatory when conceiving spaces that feel right for right now. I feel less inspired, I can’t lie, by having to copy and paste.” Instead, Curtis recommends a kind of archival patchwork-actually truer to both the ’70s aesthetic and our contemporary one. “There are times when clients want to see things that feel spot on,” he says. Yet honoring it demands work more nuanced than designing a period-perfect room around a Mario Bellini Cameleonda sofa. “As a design community,” says JSN Studio cofounder and chief executive Adair Curtis, “we champion things that have pedigree.” Pedigree accrues with time. Retrospective thinking isn’t the same as a conservative longing for an imagined past: It gleans a clearer understanding of what occurred and what had a lasting effect. The first is that historical movements draw from their own histories. Tracking the design-trend cycle, there are a few lessons still to be learned. There was a return to preindustrial aesthetics and craft but also a look forward in terms of progressive culture and breaking the rules and boundaries of the midcentury.” But it was both forward- and backward-looking. The ’70s were very intensely interested in the 1930s and 1940s. When it comes to historical periods, says INC founding partner and creative and managing director Adam Rolston, “there’s a kind of Russian doll element. Perhaps instead of waiting for trends to change, then, designers might change how they think of them. “It’s just continuing to be popular today,” he adds. “In furniture trends and shopping,” says Anthony Barzilay Freund, editorial director and director of fine art at 1stDibs. And, generally, the annual survey’s hundreds of designers report a doubling of interest in 1970s bohemianism. Mushroom lamps will continue to sprout up everywhere. The influential 1stDibs Designer Survey prognosticates still-growing enthusiasm for the 1970s groovy palette of chocolate brown, burnt orange, and mustard in 2024. Those hoping for change will have to wait.
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