Room for summer (II)
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Two exercises in pure clean white, the incomparable summer cooler. Multifunctional room designed by James Harland in white on white to form a frame for a great view, and using chrome yellow for accents. The white slim lines and vertical louvers give superb light control and a streamlined look in this compact white-walled living room. More good looks and well organized storage without clutter in the modular wall unit. A seating and the canvas director’s chair by Right Direction add color notes. Ash coffee table made to order by John. Moderns track lighting from Majestic. (more…)
Where Ann has picked up the fabrics colors in her flowers. Summer living spelled out by the white tiles, cool greens and massed plants in a relaxed room stripped of non-essentials. In our long summer, rooms should be clear and bright, pared and paled. If new slipcovers are out of the question, try such tricks as changing cushions, replacing curtains by white slim lines, leaving polished floors bare of heavy rugs and massing baskets of garden flowers everywhere, an occupying a temporary pied-a-wall while her permanent home is being built, gave her sitting-room a summery look by replacing a rich dark Persian rug with a pastel. The rug’s design coordinates with the shell pattern of the Designers Guild cotton curtains and cushions. 
A quiet Englishmen and his wife, both of whom have lived in Singapore for many years, came to the designer recently. They had ideas of extending their oldies house which is on the fringe of the hill from which the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation beamed the republic’s news throughout Asia—an area which is semi-jungle in the heart of concrete and brick new developments. On the face of it the task seemed to be a run of the mill one which did not demand much excitement. It was the usual “give me more space for the family and my motor car.” And the designer has a look at their problem. When the designer arrived at the house he lack of interest disappeared right away. 
