From kitchen pegboard and high-gloss paint to ugly ceramics and intentionally messy tabletops: Our predictions for the interiors trends that will define 2018.
1. The Kitchen Booth
Above: A new approach to the eat-in kitchen: The revival of the 1950s kitchen booth as seen here in the Los Feliz Hills kitchen by Tamar Barnoon.
Above: Tired of easy-to-identify lighting (from Serge Mouille to Lindsay Adelman), designers are seeking out unique vintage lights. Here, the home office of designer Kirill Bergart features a vintage midcentury clamp light, one of the many lights he sources and sells in his Los Angeles shop, County Ltd. Other examples are the various vintage French lights around Lucile Demory’s Paris apartment.
4. Ugly Ceramics
Above: We’re betting on the ugly ceramics trend. Ugly—in a good way—ceramics in lumpy shapes, unrefined designs, and drab color palettes are looking fresh (don’t give away those 1970s heirlooms just yet). Shown are designer Dylan Bowen‘s slipware plates, available at Guild in New York and The New Craftsmen in the UK.
5. High-Gloss Ceilings
Above: Borrowing the high-gloss look of Dutch doors, designers are using the glossy finish on ceilings as seen in the Sound View Hotel piano bar, designed by Studio Tack. Roman & Williams’s new Guild also has high-gloss ceilings finished in a proprietary shade of dusty blue from Fine Paints of Europe.
6. The Messy Table
Above: Composed like a Dutch old masters painting, dinner party tables with past-their-prime flowers, unironed linens, and intentionally unfussy food is becoming the new trend in entertaining among the fashion set. The look is practiced by of-the-moment designers like Clarisse Demory in Paris and Laila Gohar in New York, who stage dinner parties as an artistic medium. Photograph by Adrianna Glaviano, courtesy of Clarisse Demory.
7. Velvet Cushions
Above: We’ve been coveting velvet pillows for a while now so we’re happy to see more of them from designers like Kristy McLay of KLAY, available at Best Wishes in New Zealand and Marie-France Cohen of Démodé in France.
Above: The next wave in luxury? Games: hand-painted dominoes, leather chess kits (like this one from Hender Scheme), gold playing cards, and more. See our recent roundup: 7 Glamorous Games for the Aesthete.
Above: Julia Child gets full credit for the pegboard trend (brought to life in her 1961 Cambridge kitchen). Now, the useful storage solution is being replicated and refined in kitchens around the world. Here, a small kitchen in London by Undercover Architecture and another can be seen at Swantje Hinrichsen’s kitchen in Münster, Germany.
13. Shoppable Restaurants
Above: Everything on this table is for sale; that’s the premise at La Mercerie, the new restaurant from Marie-Aude Rose located at The Guild, Roman & Williams’s new emporium in SoHo, New York. We expect more restaurants to follow suit.
14. Wonky Jugs
Above: The Pressed Textural Jug from Jochen Holtz is free blown from borosilicate and has a textural pressed interior; it’s available from the New Craftsman. For something similar, consider the HAY Glass Jug from MoMA Store.
15. Tuareg Rugs
Above: Is the Tuareg the new Berber? We think so. You can find them at John Derian, among other outlets. Shown above is the rug in a dining room designed by White Arrow and Space Exploration (see another example in a room by Studio Tack). The rugs are handwoven from palm fiber and leather stripes by the Tuareg tribal people of Mauritania. Photograph by White Arrow.
Above: Retro-inspired bathroom tile (such as the Health tile used in Katie Lockhart’s Auckland project) and just plain retro tile (like the vintage pink tile at Hotel Wanås in Skåne, Sweden, shown) is an emerging trend. Start scouring your local architectural salvage now.
![Swipe right for a tour: the home of Danish couple Johanne Landbo(@johannelandbo ) and Lukas Filip (@__lukasfernandes ) of @femte.til.venstre .
Located in Copenhagen, “The house was very basic and quite minimalistic,” says Johanne. “The floors are the old wooden floors from 1927; [there was a] newly renovated bathroom with beautiful Jura Grau marble tiles, which was just how we like it. All rooms plain, painted white, so it was quite easy for us to make it our own and give it a touch of us. It was in great condition, actually; not much to fix except for the fun aesthetic things.”](https://www.remodelista.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
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