Demin resurgence part of trends for 2015
As we crack open a brand new year, full of possibilities and opportunities, I love to look at the decorating trends designers are promoting for the coming season. Every year when I go to the big home furnishings markets to scout for furniture and accents I want to order, it’s fun to see what’s new and hot and exciting.
Looking forward to the design trends in 2015, lots and lots of looks are big right now, and designers are venturing out in many different directions, experimenting with color, styles, shapes and textures. Just about everything seems to be in, and there is no one look they are all touting, which I love.
Holly Blalock, the vice president of marketing with CR Laine, is one of my favorite trend-makers. So I want to kick off the new year by sharing her design forecast for the new year.
Before I jump in, I want to start by sharing my personal view on decorating trends. I love to explore what creative interior designers are doing. But at the end of the day, there is only one style that matters: yours.
Be true to yourself, and fill your home only with the things that make your heart jump for joy. When I see new styles that grab my fancy, I like to weave a few of my favorite elements into my home to keep it fresh and ever-evolving.But I’ve found a look I love for me, and that doesn’t change year by year or trend by trend.
Here is what Blalock is liking for 2015:
DENIM REVIVAL: TRUE BLUE
Home interior trends follow fashion, and what you see on the runway models will eventually make its way to the living room.
For this style trend, Blalock took her cue from the various interpretations of denim that the fashion industry’s top designers were showing in their new collections. She noted this about denim’s resurgence: “At Milan Fashion Week, the casual wear stable re-emerged as a sophisticated choice in collections by such luxury labels as Bottega Veneta and Armani.”
In her trend report, Blalock says, “Denim demands to be taken seriously this season. This time around, the look is less about rugged fabric and more about luminous, inky blue hues and multitoned textiles.”
Blalock took the different hues of blue, from indigo to winter sky, and wrapped them around traditional and more contemporary furniture silhouettes for the collection. I’ve long been a lover of all things blue, so I’m happy to see my favorite hue represented so well by the top designers.
GLASS MENAGERIE
Blalock looks for inspiration for her furniture designs from all sorts of places. This time, the gorgeous glass creations of artist Dale Chihuly captured her imagination. The Glass Menagerie collection is inspired by his work and seeks to translate the organic movement and vibrant colors of Chihuly’s glass art into home furnishings.
Blalock says this about her Glass Menagerie collection: “Our Tangled Indigo and Medici fabrics mimic the mesmerizing tide-like swirls created by glassblowing, a tradition that dates back several millennia. Like their molten predecessors, the designs express a vibrant fluidity.”
CITRUS PUNCH
“Overflowing with juicy color, the fruit bowl has stirred countless painters to put brush to canvas,” Blalock says.
I know at Nell Hill’s, my home store in Missouri, we can’t get enough color this time of year, when the Midwestern sky is gray and the trees are bare. We’re filling the stores with rich, vibrant, saturated color, from the furniture in the showrooms, to the accents and artwork.
“Tangerines, lemons and limes are spilling into home decor, where their vibrant bounty is inspiring fresh new strokes of genius,” Blalock predicts. “No longer limited to the kitchen, these naturally radiant hues are ripe with possibility for any room.
“For a surefire burst of sunshine, pick a pattern featuring the brightest muse in the bowl: lemon yellow.” Love it!
I’m so excited to head to market this year and see what Blalock and all the other designers have in store for us.
This column was adapted from Mary Carol Garrity’s blog at www.nellhills.com. She can be reached at marycarol@nellhills.com.
