What is Alternative Interior Design
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Alternative Interior Design is about looking at what “is” and asking “what if”.
What are our other options?
What’s popular? What’s common?
Is there something I can replace it with?
Our blog series Palace Interiors is now a published magazine!
↓ Read the rest of this entry…As part of a new series we are trying out here on the SOS blog, I will be taking you through history.
We’ll look at interior design elements in the kingdoms (and their palaces) of the past.
And we will examine the modern day projects that pull inspiration from them.
In the end you might even find something that helps you do what Rene Finberg tries to do for her clients “make their home into a palace – their favorite place to be.”
This is Palace Interiors!
a guide to learning from historical interior design
Today’s trip through time will take us back, some 2,500 years back, to the neo-Babylonian empire.
And you can also see how a modern firm applies the ancient style.
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/07/babylon-restaurant-bar-hoggs-lamb-sydney-australia/
Enjoy!
Searching for classic and antique upholstery pictures I found this book on Archive.org
As I just updated in our Motorized Shades guide, a study by Energy House
in Salford, England, has found that drawing closed window blinds and shades at night can reduce heat loss by as much as… ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am adding more content to our case studies today.
And while I was at it did some digging for alternative uses for slipcovers.
Let’s see.
