Katie Lockhart, Interior decorator and owner of Everyday Needs design store, shares her predictions and inspiration for the design trends for 2014. I have always thought that the following quote by Sally Sirkin Lewis (Joni Mitchell's interior designer) nicely summarises my design philosophy.
Mrs Lewis, too, dislikes the "decorated" look. "All those fashion tricks. A house isn't a series of tricks," she remarks, "it's a reflection of a person - the essence
of the one who lives there. The designer is responsible for interpreting personality. I don't believe in creating monuments for myself or my ego."
Colour is always the starting point of a project for me and I spend a lot of time collecting colours that I store away as references. Most recently I took a little chip of the peeling paint from the front of Robert Frank's building in New York City. I have always loved how sun faded it is and finally plucked up the nerve to help myself.
Rachel Lacy of Drikolor has just launched a beautiful palette of paint colours that we have been using a lot in the studio. I love the integrity of the natural and mineral pigments she uses such as champagne chalk, bone black, ochre and umber. For someone as interested in colour as I am, the depth of colour created by such raw materials makes a big difference to how I approach my work.
