Design Trends for 2010: "Odyssey" (3 comments)

This is the third in a series of ideabooks that go into more detail about trends I highlighted in an earlier ideabook called 10 big design trends for 2010. Most of the trends focused on designing with relationships in mind, incorporating story-laden items into home design, and other very human-oriented trends.

One trend, however, was completely different from the rest, so obviously I was drawn towards that one. That trend is "Odyssey."

UK design expert Danielle James is the one who coined the term, and this is how she describes the trend:

"Futuristic. Natural. Think Star Wars - especially the most recently made sequels, where the women’s costumes were exquisitely sculptured, structured and feminine. How this translates into interiors will be via the emergence of interesting futuristic sculptural curves and smaller areas where there is much attention to ornate detail. However, there will be a space-age edge to all this. The ‘natural’ part of this will be that metallics will be textured and/or combined with natural fibers. I’m talking here of a trend that is a celebration of the beauty of the natural world in an ultra contemporary context."

I'm fascinated with using new and unusual materials as a part of home design - that's my big takeway here - and with the combination of "natural" and "futuristic."

These spaces typify this:

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