designstreet: LOVING PATTERNS

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

LOVING PATTERNS

Designing a space doesn’t end with choosing the right furniture and hanging the right frames. We also need to keep in mind the other elements in design, such as color, light, texture and pattern.

And how else to play with texture in the simplest way? By using patterns!

Patterns and texture are different things but visually they can be one and the same.

We loved DAMASK PATTERN last year. It was all over!

Its like damsk pattern invaded every nooks and cranny of the design world.

Rugs, wallpapers, curtains, furniture...

Towels, invitations, stationeries, even food, everywhere!

And now new patterns are invading our interior world!

TRELLIS PATTERN

Trellis pattern are geometric shapes interwoven to create another pattern.

This pattern has the sophistication and classic look that damask pattern has but is not too girly.

One of the famous patterns today is one made by Kelly Wearstler

See how she combines geometric shapes?

CHEVRON PATTERN

this are patterns that looks like a nested letters "V" and sometimes called a herringbone pattern.

this pattern I'm also starting to love.

maybe because its an easy DIY next to stripes

MORROCAN PATTERN

there are quite a number of different moroccan patterns.

but this is the prettiest.

generally a morrocan pattern resembles an arabic/morrocan embelishment

as seen on morrocan arcitectures and arches

its quite similar to a quatrefoil

but notice that a morrocan pattern such as this has a pointed top and bottom or sides either way

QUATREFOIL

its very famous in art, architecture and christian symbolism

which are four overlapping circles with the same diameter.

Gothic and Renaissance era are rich with the use of this pattern it is usually seen on top of Gothic arches.

and now we are all loving it.

FRET

A lot of early civilizations loved and used this pattern,

Egyptians, Romans, Indians, Mayan and Aztec and lets not forget Greek.

"It is a running or repeated ornament, consisting of lengths of straight lines or narrow bands, usually connected and at the right angles to each other in T, L, or square-cornered G shapes." -encyclopedia Britanica

LATTICE

this is quite similar to the Trellis pattern but notice that lattice uses straight overlapping lines whereas with a Trellis pattern, it uses a combination of straight and curved patterns.