African Influence

African influence is back. Think black and white, voodoo, spirits, bold monochrome geometrics, hallucinations, blur and the red and white of sacrifice. Watch for companies like Ege Carpet and Moroso.

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Surrealism and Enchantment

Surrealism and enchantment will let spaces tell stories. Alice in Wonderland and Disney classics meet interiors. This may tie in with the trend of Humour with gimmicky items like smiling robotics.

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Calligraphy and Hand Sketching

Calligraphy and hand sketching will be huge… there are already some amazing examples.

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Big thanks for sharing her thoughts www.laurabielecki.com/blog/interior-design

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Happy Christmas!

We at Mainstreamimages would like to thank all our customers and friends all over the world for their sales and support in 2012 and would like to wish them all, a very merry Christmas and happy new year.

Look forward to doing business with you in 2013.

From all at Mainstreamimages.

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Colour of 2013?

The time has come when we begin to wonder about this question. And I have come back to think about that after reading Azkonobel’s Colour Future’s 2013 and after finding an interesting post by Laura Bielecki reporting the predictions made by the prestigious trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort in a meeting in Design Days Dubai 2012. Within a colour palette, indigo is versatile and pairs well with brightest of a similar saturation level, citrus, warmer neutrals and other blues, purples and greens. Curiously, in her seminar in Dubai, Lidewij Edelkoort presented yellow as being the new pink in Interior Design, and that makes sense with its being the complement to the purple family. According to her predictions, yellow will make for vibrant and stimulating colour palettes, fabrics and fittings. And it will come with more staying power than Tangerine Tango, it seems.

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21st Century Cotswolds

Building their own home allowed the Wild family the best of both worlds – a traditional farmhouse façade and hi-tech glamour within. “Plots in the Cotswolds are like hen’s teeth,” says interiors and silverware designer J.B. Wild. “But we’d had a tip-off that this one was coming up for auction: 130 acres of fantastic land, with beautiful hedges and all well maintained. It had been in the same family for 90 years and we were lucky enough to get it,” she exclaims, still delighted at this piece of good fortune. Just a stone’s throw from Bourton-on-the Water, a village voted one of England’s prettiest, J.B., her husband, Chris, and their three children had nabbed themselves an idyllic spot – and one on which their dream to build their own home could be realised. The fact that Chris is a residential property developer was a bonus. His company, Wild Projects, specialises in new building techniques, both high-tech and eco-friendly, and he’s incorporated many of these into the build. “It’s great to be able to give new technology a go,” he says. “The house is best described as Georgian farmhouse in style, but given the levels of insulation and airtightness we’ve achieved, it’s cutting-edge in function"... view feature

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