Inspirations
This fall, I wanted to celebrate two of my favorite places to live: Brussels, Belgium and New York, New York.
My Industrial Chic collection is inspired by Belgian design where old world meets new, where traditional sits with modern, and where the shape and texture of each object conjures up an entirely new feeling of contemporary luxury.
In this collection, rough and rustic materials like river stones and wire balls play against the smoothness of glass, while the lushness of flowers and orchids temper a gold hobnail ceramic planter or a crackled mirror vase.
Though neutral in color, the Industrial Chic collection is far from being monotone – crisp white hydrangea and anemones are paired with vibrant green snowball and crimson roses and calla lilies add depth to a pale green palette.
Living in New York after fifteen years in Belgium allowed me to appreciate the changing of the seasons, fall being one of the prettiest in the Northeast.
Gleaming rooftops at sundown, fiery red and orange leaves in Central Park, crisp morning air creating shimmering clouds in canyons of steel – it’s Autumn in New York! A song made popular in the 1930’s and 40’s by the likes of Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra inspired the more traditional styles in my Fall / Winter 2010 collection, where colorful fall flowers are paired with classically elegant glass vases, antiqued mercury glass and porcelain cachepots.
