Have you nailed the interiors trends of 2023?
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
![Japanese lanterns get a joyful rejig this season. The trend for paper pendants takes a painterly turn with this sculptural limited-edition Formakami design by Jaime Hayon for & Tradition, £300](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Feffd040a-08cc-4dec-b6fc-6bae6d5ce0e8.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Painted paper shades
Japanese lanterns get a joyful rejig this season. The trend for paper pendants takes a painterly turn with this sculptural limited-edition Formakami design by Jaime Hayon for & Tradition, £300.
![Feeling tipsy? The trend for surrealistic stemware that mimics melting glass – as pioneered by glass artist Miranda Keyes’s hand-forged Ball Knoped collection for Fels Farm Shop at London Design Festival – will have guests quizzing their levels of inebriation (£240)](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fb9c220e9-9802-4b66-9951-7b36d0ee94ed.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Globular glassware
Feeling tipsy? The trend for surrealistic stemware that mimics melting glass — as pioneered by glass artist Miranda Keyes’s hand-forged Ball Knoped collection for Fels Farm Shop at London Design Festival — will have guests quizzing their levels of inebriation (£240).
![Rooms take on a richer flair – think Mayfair gentlemen’s club without the stuffiness. Soane Britain’s rattan Kymo cabinet in scarlet teamed with its sgraffito linen (£250 per metre, pictured edge of page) by dealer and designer Adam Bray nails the eclectic aesthetic](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F768a6c36-28a6-47e0-a0a7-d75ee8b5363a.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Mannish interiors
Rooms take on a richer flair — think Mayfair gentlemen’s club without the stuffiness. Soane Britain’s rattan Kymo cabinet in scarlet teamed with its sgraffito linen (£250 per metre, pictured edge of page) by dealer and designer Adam Bray nails the eclectic aesthetic.
![The movement to channel? Art nouveau with a distinctly postmodern air. Mickey, India Mahdavi’s swirling Viennese design, transports the classic bentwood lounge chair straight to Disneyland. From Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, from €3,910](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fbc607e6a-fe05-4963-b2b9-ef1eddf1aa7b.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Oh, Vienna!
The movement to channel? Art nouveau with a distinctly postmodern air. Mickey, India Mahdavi’s swirling Viennese design, transports the classic bentwood lounge chair straight to Disneyland. From Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, from €3,910.
![The romantic botanicals of Rameau Fleuri wallpaper are being revived from the riches of the Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler archive (£696 per roll). This trellis pattern is bang on the English country-house-style trend that’s currently in bloom](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F9582e379-4cf0-406e-886f-9b7a5449e2f1.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Full flower
The romantic botanicals of Rameau Fleuri wallpaper are being revived from the riches of the Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler archive (£696 per roll). This trellis pattern is bang on the English country-house-style trend that’s currently in bloom.
![Ceramicist Frances Palmer has fashioned unglazed clay containers (from £1,800) inspired by the ancients – and artists Cy Twombly and Brâncuşi – to set against de Gournay’s exuberant Mughal paper collection](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F9952c45b-36a1-4810-885a-cc09018909fb.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Terracotta trophies
Ceramicist Frances Palmer has fashioned unglazed clay containers (from £1,800) inspired by the ancients — and artists Cy Twombly and Brâncuşi — to set against de Gournay’s exuberant Mughal paper collection.
![Drinks cabinets are the new artisanal statement-maker. The more hand-wrought and rough-hewn the better. Tiled Welcome drinks cabinet inspired by the ceramic adornments of Britain’s railway stations, by Matthew Raw, £26,360, from The New Craftsmen](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fa35b905b-27a1-4163-8034-41b163052f98.png?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Crafty cocktail cabinets
Drinks cabinets are the new artisanal statement-maker. The more hand-wrought and rough-hewn the better. Tiled Welcome drinks cabinet inspired by the ceramic adornments of Britain’s railway stations, by Matthew Raw, £26,360, from The New Craftsmen.
![Woven hand-block-printed linen textiles are having a moment. Whether by Drusus Tabor for Schumacher or by designer Jermaine Gallacher, they tell a modernist tale reminiscent of the naturalistic abstract wonder of English artist Ben Nicholson](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F616a2c2b-afde-4d3a-8921-36691f377e23.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Block stars
Woven hand-block-printed linen textiles are having a moment. Whether by Drusus Tabor for Schumacher or by designer Jermaine Gallacher, they tell a modernist tale reminiscent of the naturalistic abstract wonder of English artist Ben Nicholson.
![Bold, chalky and sophisticated, the new big-top stripes are defined by their earthy and off-beat palette. Pavilion table lamp in Stripe by Palefire Studio x 8 Holland Street, £770, exclusively from 8hollandstreet.com](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F00b7baca-e56f-4cbb-9597-111b627fc84f.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Clowning around
Bold, chalky and sophisticated, the new big-top stripes are defined by their earthy and offbeat palette. Pavilion table lamp in Stripe by Palefire Studio x 8 Holland Street, £770, exclusively from 8hollandstreet.com.
![Malachite gets a kaleidoscopic retool. This high-octane handpainted and lacquered table, POA, by PPCDV (the newest incarnation of design duo Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos) takes sitting-room psychedelia into the stratosphere.](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F370bdeeb-f337-4ffa-ab6b-c6c767f4252d.png?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Mineral of the moment
Malachite gets a kaleidoscopic retool. This high-octane hand-painted and lacquered table, POA, by PPCDV (the newest incarnation of design duo Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos) takes sitting-room psychedelia into the stratosphere.
![Counter stools go back to the bronze age. Anna Karlin’s wrought-iron seating forgoes the froufrou of filigree with a sculptural, glyph-like silhouette that’s elegantly elemental, £4,300 each, from Anna Karlin Furniture + Fine Objects. annakarlin.com](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F07bb7670-9d6e-48bb-ac26-3482c831e416.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Sit here
Counter stools go back to the bronze age. Anna Karlin’s wrought-iron seating forgoes the frou-frou of filigree with a sculptural, glyph-like silhouette that’s elegantly elemental, £4,300 each, from Anna Karlin Furniture + Fine Objects. annakarlin.com.
![Glass outshines ceramic as the playful tile du jour. Balineum’s translucent designs borrow from the aquatic, poppy hues of David Hockney’s Californian swimming pool in A Bigger Splash. Dive in from £2.85 per tile](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fdb2f2ab2-1d66-467d-8ad0-ed8b28ed2553.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Art of glass
Glass outshines ceramic as the playful tile du jour. Balineum’s translucent designs borrow from the aquatic, poppy hues of David Hockney’s Californian swimming pool in A Bigger Splash. Dive in from £2.85 per tile.
![Peter Mikic’s brilliantly glossy Bordeaux-toned drinks tray for The Lacquer Company calls to mind the Dazzle ships of the first world war. The aesthetic challenge: to conjure a cocktail to visually compete. In three sizes, from £295](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F35550e53-f440-425b-accc-913717e073c9.png?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Tray chic
Peter Mikic’s brilliantly glossy Bordeaux-toned drinks tray for The Lacquer Company calls to mind the Dazzle ships of the first world war. The aesthetic challenge: to conjure a cocktail to visually compete. In three sizes, from £295.
![Corduroy supplants bouclé as the most wanted textile: tactile, enduring and perennially chic – especially rendered in rose-petal pink (BDDW Fabric #243). Seen here on the cast-blackened, bronze-footed Abel sofa, from $21,300, from BBDW](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fcee03c5f-3747-48ba-a0f4-b7bef1dc746c.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Corduroy cool
Corduroy supplants bouclé as the most wanted textile: tactile, enduring and perennially chic — especially rendered in rose-petal pink (BDDW Fabric #243). Seen here on the cast-blackened, bronze-footed Abel sofa, from $21,300, from BBDW.
![Bauhaus is back – did it ever go away? – but this time it’s the women artists who are looming large. Gunta Stölzl’s 1923 flat-weave rug spotlights the textile talent of the German school’s first female master (Karl Largerfeld was a fan). £8,500, from Christopher Farr](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F4f9b59db-6f7b-4579-b758-d2f57d91c3c4.png?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Women who weave
Bauhaus is back — did it ever go away? — but this time it’s the women artists who are looming large. Gunta Stölzl’s 1923 flat-weave rug spotlights the textile talent of the German school’s first female master (Karl Lagerfeld was a fan). £8,500, from Christopher Farr.
![Modernist marvels feel new again. Jamb’s art deco style ‘Astor’ chimneypiece in black marble and onyx lends deeply glamorous Soanian drama to the drawing room, £27,500 + VAT](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fdd70bb76-2645-405e-a94d-561b2772d7f8.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Bright young things get lit
Modernist marvels feel new again. Jamb’s art deco style ‘Astor’ chimneypiece in black marble and onyx lends deeply glamorous Soanian drama to the drawing room, £27,500 + VAT.
![Make it reign: Purple, that most regal – and marmite – of pigments is making a majestic comeback. See the colourful kente-influenced embossed nubuck leather ‘Chester’ sofa by British menswear designer Ozwald Boateng for Poltrona Frau, £13,230 + VAT](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F921dbed8-f0c2-44be-b970-c19cbec12aef.png?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
The colour purple
Make it reign: Purple, that most regal — and marmite — of pigments is making a majestic comeback. See the colourful kente-influenced embossed nubuck leather ‘Chester’ sofa by British menswear designer Ozwald Boateng for Poltrona Frau, £13,230 + VAT.
![Inspired carpets: Rugs hark back to the 1980s with primary-hued, hand-woven jacquard floor coverings that pack a geometric punch. Flower Grid wool rug from Chateau Orlando by Luke Edward Hall for cc-tapis, £3.764](https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fe5107365-a8ba-446f-b3d9-a7953b61f2cf.png?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1)
Power dressing — for floors
Inspired carpets: Rugs hark back to the 1980s with primary-hued, hand-woven jacquard floor coverings that pack a geometric punch. Flower Grid wool rug from Chateau Orlando by Luke Edward Hall for cc-tapis, £3.764.
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