Top industry professionals gathered at the New York Design Center at 200 Lex for the 15th annual What’s New, What’s Next event. As we roamed the 16-story design destination, here’s what we heard…
“We see green. Green is just really having a moment,” says rug designer Jennifer Manners, who recently opened her first U.S. location in 200 Lex. “We’ve had to kind of backtrack because we do a lot of blue, which has been very popular in London. We’ve been bringing in green and lots of different shades of green.”
“A real interest for people is the performance,” Manners also spills. “We do lovely silk and wools, but actually what people want are high performance—the /re/PURPOSE Performance collection, it’s all made from recycled water bottles so it’s bleach-cleanable.”
“It is our second book and it is the last seven years of projects that didn’t make it into the first book. It’s sort of a continuation of our first book, which is really just about our ethos and how we have a real breadth of work that ranges from very traditional, very country-charming, and can also be very contemporary,” Jesse Carrier says of Carrier and Company’s new book, Defining Chic: Carrier and Company Interiors.
When asked if trim is coming back, Emily Sapione immediately answers “yes, especially bullion.” Sapione, who does outside sales for Samuel & Sons, shares that one new collection, Dorset, features a “double-sided, scalloped velvet trim.”
“People trying to un-kitchen their kitchen,” is what Uncommon Kitchens: A Revolutionary Approach to the Most Popular Room in the House author Sophie Donelson sees trending in kitchen design. “It is the idea of treating the kitchen as a room first and as a kitchen second. Which is to say, in addition to looking at all the functional aspects of it, looking at decoration the way you would any other room: wall treatments, more decorative tile versus just functional tile, hanging art, adding rugs, or adding a vase or an object.”
