Dark Nostalgia

About this book

As the late twentieth-century fascination with rounded shapes organic influences and plastics fades interior designers are increasingly drawn to deep colors polished woods velvets furs leather dark metals and brick that have a nostalgic qualitymaterials used liberally in centuries gone by. Efforts to shape a more authentic less austere present by creating an idealized version of the past have begun to appear in commercial and residential design throughout the country and abroad. Dark Nostalgia presents twenty-six projects that exemplify the smooth incorporation of evocative historic detail into current interiors. Public spaces including New Yorks famous Royalton Hotel lobby renovation the Clift Hotel bar in San Francisco and Alain Ducasses newest restaurant Adour as well as private residences and smaller intimate restaurants and clubs by cutting-edge designers including AvroKO David Rockwell Roman & Williams Julian Schnabel Philippe Starck and Adam Tihany demonstrate the many successful ways this trend towards a dark nostalgia has been incorporated in recent designs.