Blogs Home Life: Tropical Minimalist Home Design

Swan and Series 7 chairs everywhere — from celebrity homes to magazine pictorials and album covers. Even as the world has gone through numerous trends that have ranged from Italian to French to Tropical Asian and minimalist — Scandinavian design The Museum of Modern Art's annual Party in the Garden benefit incorporated a modern, tropical vibe with lush canopies of greenery and striking neon design details museum hired Tania last fall to be our in-house designer,” said Maggie Lyko, MoMA's After bringing modern banking to Brazil—and making a great fortune in the process—Walter Moreira Salles decided to create a showcase home. So in the late 1940s a high modernist jewel with a distinctly tropical twist. Set on an exclusive hillside Home & Garden TV personality and author Chris Casson Madden dubs it "Forbidden Fruit." Whatever name you give it, there's a design "Not Minimalist, , but much less cluttered." For instance, putting an architectural object or a vase with tropical These floor-standing lights are inspired by nature and mimic seed pods hanging from a tropical well-being in your home. The lights come in natural rattan, ebony or matt white. Muji are renowned for their good quality, minimalist design and these The Uptown house that attorney Jack Sullivan and designer Chet Pourciau tropical greenery and centered around a luminous, bamboo fountain made of emerald green glass. Sullivan and Pourciau commissioned their friend, artist Mitchell Gaudet, to design .

Watling is convinced the vines cascading across her bright green painted walls, among other tropical elements, appealed. Next Thursday (Nov. 22) their homes and two others, one from Hamilton and the other from Oakville, will be aired on the HGTV channel. With rich hues and elaborate grain patterns, exotic woods are growing in home décor. Many rare woods come from tropical climates Brazilian cherry flooring Seattle Stair & Design custom-staircase crafters use exotic wood in a small but growing number Admire a model home with you like tropical or exotic styles, plants with large leaves or intricate colorations are perfect, such as moth orchids, bold palms and split-leaf philodendrons,” says Peterson. “Those who want a more minimalist look Floors/Walls: "A poured concrete floor paired with slatted wood walkways will make this patio pop," suggests Lily Gahagan, market editor of Houzz.com, an online community for home design enthusiasts. Colors: If you're going for a tropical look, accessorize .