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Pretty in Pink!

Oh Pink! It's a love it or hate it relationship for a lot of people, but it's a color that in time has always prevailed and for a while now, it's getting stronger than ever!

Last year Pantone came out with a duality as color of the year, and guess what? Pink was one of them, Rose Quartz to be more specific. After that as you can imagine, an entire revolution developed around this hue.  All the decor and fashion world came out with their best pieces to make of this hue and important asset whether in your space or your wardrobe or probably both. 

©Kelly Wearstler Interiors 

©Kelly Wearstler Interiors 

In fashion pink is now the color of powerful optimistic statements. All boss ladies out there get your pink suit on! 

In interiors, pink has always been qualified as feminine, but different shades of pink set different moods. A bright, vivid tone like fuchsia suggests energy and glamour. A soft and restrained pink, like blush, or a beige with pink undertones creates a soothing feeling. 

Pink can be paired with other colors, including chocolate brown, black, mint green, metallic gold and silver and white to create a variety of moods. When paired with a masculine hue like navy blue, pink can add a feminine balance.

©Kelly Wearstler Interiors 

©Kelly Wearstler Interiors 

Dusty pinks mixed with subtle neutrals add glamour to a bedroom. Pink can feel sophisticated when paired with brown or beige; try this color combination in a dining room with raffia walls.

It's always good to take in consideration that pink can be an overwhelming color when is not used carefully. 

I personally love how Kelly Wearstler handles it. It can be as a little pop of color for a neutral room, or an over the top crazy composition all over a space, that will definitely blow your mind and activate all your senses when you walk into the room. 

In architecture we can't forget when Ricado Bofil, decided to make his pink statement with La Muralla Roja in Spain!

© La Muralla Roja by Ricardo Bofil

© La Muralla Roja by Ricardo Bofil

 

                                                        XO,  

Tiara M.

 

The start of something!

Here you are! Welcome to our blog, one that promises to worship design in all its splendor. I don’t know if you noticed, but across this website we have made very clear that Design, is our Passion, so please don’t forget it!

Let’s go a little back shall we?.. Since I can remember design has been all over me, I remember when I first got that artistic rush, I was dying to be a fashion designer ( don’t be surprised if in the future, you run into a few Fashion articles here). Later on when the time came to be all realistic and make decisions, I was leaning more towards Interior design, so I thought about it, and came up with an idea. Why not to go from the general to the specific? So, I went for architecture with the dream of, later focus on interiors and guess what? to incorporate fashion whenever I can.

 "an interior is the natural projection of the soul"

                                                -coco chanel.           

And so I did, I graduated from architecture and then moved to San Francisco, California to pursue my Interior Design dream, for me it was, and is the best complement to my architecture background.  After years of studying and working with important California based designers, which I consider the most wonderful experience in my profesional career so far, I moved back to Santo Domingo to make an even bigger dream come true | arcteriors | an architecture and interior design firm that focuses on making those spaces you have envisioned come to life, taking national and international projects.

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                                                                                                           XO,                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                         Tiara M.