Wishful Thinking For 2020

Predictions for the interior-design world in the year ahead

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The kitchen work table Nothing will ever topple the island from its kitchen hegemony; it offers buckets of storage and workspace, as well as creating a sociable place prepare to food. But the work table—a descendant of the type that Mrs Patmore slaved over in Downton Abbey —offers a dainty alternative on legs for those who don’t need the room for storage and appliances that are provided by an all-singing, all-dancing island.

Art

Nothing new here, you may argue, but many British houses have yet to recover from the 20-year reign of Minimalism under which paintings, drawings and prints were pretty much banned by the style police. Whatever the Zenlike calm of Modernist interiors, the fact remains that we’ve all grown weary of staring at bare walls. Art, however humble, lends life and meaning to an interior in a way that white paint and a few abstract daubs never will. More is definitely the merrier and collections are flavour of the month.

Block printing