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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Lovely Rooms for Monday Inspiration – Mad About The Home


Final week I used to be in Portugal the place I used to be taken as a visitor of Color Flooring Firm to see the cork harvest. I’ll let you know extra about that subsequent week, however first a second for the beautiful lodge we stayed in in Porto. The Cocorico is a transformed townhouse with 10 bedrooms and it’s truthfully one of the crucial fabulous motels I’ve ever visited. It additionally sparked a theme for this week’s put up: rattan.

the cocorico hotel in porto

the cocorico lodge in porto

Now in the event you had been paying consideration a few weeks in the past you could have observed I wrote in regards to the distinction between trendY and trendING. The previous being one thing that many people are afraid of with regards to interiors as fashions change and it’s costly and wasteful to maintain purchasing. There’s a distinction, nevertheless, between that and developmenting which is when supplies, colors and textures circle out and in of style however stay, on the coronary heart of it a reasonably traditional materials. Brass is one such instance – brass faucets are trending however after they transfer spherical they may nonetheless be a traditional. Rattan is one other.

styling for la redoute by kws of madaboutthehouse.com

styling for la redoute by kws of madaboutthehouse.com – I did this in 2019 spot the rug that could be very a lot trending

These of you on instagram might have observed manufacturers like Folie Chambre, Anemone Interiors and, within the US, Circa Who, promoting classic rattan, usually from Italy. A lot of it’s beautiful though it could actually attain funding costs (which is a means of claiming that it ain’t low-cost).

charity shop rattan chair in the home of erica davies

charity store rattan chair within the residence of erica davies 

On the similar time there’s a lot of rattan on the excessive road so a technique or one other you may in all probability discover a piece to fit your funds. In any case, in the event you dangle on to it lengthy sufficient even the reasonably priced excessive road piece will change into classic (20 years is the official rely).

design by flack studio using the attpynta belladonna sofa and charlottenborg armchair by sika design

design by flack studio utilizing the attpynta belladonna couch and charlottenborg armchair by sika design

Listed here are some examples of rattan from my cameral roll through the years in addition to clocked on instagram this week. One is a styling job I did for La Redoute again in 2019, one is a shot of a chair that was present in a charity store in addition to the aforementioned Cocorico Lodge and the Hoxton in Paris, the place I stayed in 2018 – and that courtyard continues to be one of the crucial photographed.

the courtyard at the hoxton hotel in paris

the courtyard on the hoxton lodge in paris

Then there may be the Ikea chair, which was restocked a number of occasions and continues to be wanted on classic websites. The present model Buskbo is £179 however aficionados prefer it much less. If anybody is aware of the identify of the unique the bottom line is to arrange a google alert for any that come up on the market.

ikea rattan chair in the home of @thegarden.edit

ikea rattan chair within the residence of @thegarden.edit 

So the place do you stand on stylish v trending? Does rattan do it for you? Along with the classic websites talked about above do take a look at La Redoute in addition to Cox & Cox and  Rockett St George.

For flooring in cork, rubber, vinyl and wooden go to the Color Flooring Firm.

 

Kate Watson-Smyth

I am a journalist who writes about interiors primarily for The Monetary Occasions however I’ve additionally written recurrently for The Impartial and The Day by day Mail. My home has been in Residing And many others, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Avenue Journal & Corriere della Sera. I additionally run an inside styling consultancy Mad About Your Home. Welcome to my Mad Home.



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