Spanish architect and designer, Patricia Urquiola has done it again with her Frilly Chair for Kartell. Urquiola’s fans now watch her in her adopted home and workplace: Milan. The city is known for decades of shapely, colorful modern furniture. and the Frilly Chair is no exception. Urquiola’s indoor/outdoor line boasts eight bold colors with “crystal clear” promising to fit into any color palette! Stack them five high or line them up – the chairs’ asymmetrical lines will add depth, color and glowing shadows to any space.

I fell in love today. This Atlas Carpet Mills’ carpet has an enormous effect on a modern interior! The Contour’s concentric waves span 14″ circles across the floor.  Like carvings, the ripples add subtle art to any room.  The colors are just as lovely as the form: the two-tone colorways create a slight holographic effect.  The predominant color seen depends on the your lighting and viewing location.

The colors, shadows and tactile curves of this carpet literally made my day! My feet would happily wake up to the Contour carpet for years on end.

Susan Diana Harris on AvaLiving - January 2010

Susan Diana Harris Interior Design’s “Chiyogami Modern” is featured again this week on AvaLiving.com!

Looking for artwork to compliment our chiyogami-influenced theme,  we quickly fell in love with “Fluke the Mutant Cardinal” (below).  This collage is one of many by Chelsea Groves who laces her artwork with the Japanese papers. Fluke’s salmon, aqua, cinnamon and tangerine hues now envelop the entire three bedroom home in Mountain View, California.

Fluke the Mutant Cardinal by ChelseArt

Not only are the walls swathed with color, but the details offer opportunities to play with the palette.  Chiyogami papers wrap wall plates and peek through glass cabinet knobs. The handiwork of the beautiful wall plates? None other than the clients themselves!

Chiyogami Wall Plate

See more of this project at SusanDianaHarris.com.  Find the San Francisco Bay Area artist’s work at ChelseArt as under “BirdNerd” on Etsy.com.

Photo by oneblackbird - Glowbowls

San Francisco’s own Diana Fayt offers light with her “glowbowls” (above). Gorgeous unglazed bowls add form to your home by day. The bowls’ glazed interiors house votives to add movement and light by night. Strands of 5, 7 and 9 are common. Custom lengths are available to fill your loft! Find them at  Etsy.com.

Photo by Puka Puka - Sea String Mobile

Puka Puka of Sydney, Australia brings us colorful, graphic mobiles made of polypropylene. The Sea String Mobile (above) exemplifies Nina Still’s playful, organic shapes and color combinations. Find her work at Etsy.com.

Photo by Julie Frith - Cirqus Mobile

Finally, Julie Frith of Eureka, California offers an understated focal point for minimalist homes: Cirqus. This is one of her “Foamobiles” made of EVA Foam. Don’t want black? Choose from thirtyone colors!

Identity

It’s God’s fingerprint in your living room! Its humbling scale is a breath of fresh air both in terms of design and production. This Pop Art modern rug, “Identity,” is one of many modern designs by ModernRugs.com’s newest collection: Green Leaf Rugs. The line boasts 100% biodegradable rugs that are made in sweatshop-free environments.

Susan Diana Harris’ Mondrian Loft is one of a few Piet Mondrian-inspired interiors on Apartment Therapy!  Mondrian was stranded in his home country, the Netherlands, at the outbreak of the First World War.  His forced isolation from the international art world is said to be the catalyst of De Stijl, a movement Mondrian co-founded with artists Theo Van Doesburg, Anthony Kok, J.J.P. Oud, Vilmos Huszár and Bart van der Leck in 1917.  Mondrian’s art continues to influence architecture, fashions, furniture and graphics to this day! Markedly “Modern,” even 97 years later!

“I believe it is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.”

~ Piet Mondrian to H.P. Bremmer in 1914

Sources: Apartment Therapy, Wikipedia 1 &  2

Lama Concept's Cell

Dutch designers Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel cut industrial woolfelt into strings and combine them to form cell-like structures. Add LEDs and voilà: LAMA Concept’s CELL + LED Carpet.

The CELL + LED Carpet was first seen on the Airbus A350 businessclass. Tweak the 32 available colors, striped pattern, number of LEDs, and rug shape for a custom look. Take it a step further with your choice of LED color!

See this at the Fashioning Felt Exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt: 6 March – 7 September 2009.

China’s Modern Decoration Magazine, CNMD featured Susan Diana Harris Interior Design’s Mondrian Loft. The Yerba Buena Loft in San Francisco’s SOMA Neighborhood is honored by CNMD as an “International Trend.”  Read the  five-page article either in Cantonese or English by clicking here!