How to be Trendy...or Not

(photo: NYTimes)


Here's a link to a year-end round up of decorating trends that are "over"!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/garden/20over.html

If you're like me you may have been wondering:"what's up with all the antlers, faux deer heads, and woodland creatures popping up everywhere in the past few years?" (have you seen Smith, on 15th in Seattle?, they really went for it with the antlers)

The linked article has the answer.

As for the "Hollywood Regency" look being over, when a term becomes a keyword on Craigslist and Ebay descriptions to be lumped together with a bunch of other vague labels like "Eames", and when the pieces featured only vaguely have anything to do with the look. You know the trend is becoming threadbare.

The sad thing is how fast this is happening.

Neoclassical, yes, Empire, yes, but this chair would have to be more exaggerated to be "Hollywood Regency", maybe if it was laquered green with black and white zebra upholstery!


Also "Hollywood Regency" according to the lister on Craigslist. To me it's just a nice little mahogany dining chair with a neoclassical influence, probably from the 40's when this sort of thing was very common.

It could be pushed into "Hollywood Regency" territory if it were re-done, let's say white laquer with a bold, large scale black and white geometric seat fabric, that would do it!


Here is a room by Johnathan Adler which shows the exaggerated, almost cartoonish quality of the "Hollywood Regency" look. (and there's that zebra rug!)