A design trend that lets you throw out the rules and do whatever makes you feel good? Here’s why people are embracing dopamine style and surrounding themselves with things that bring them joy.
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Design by Nadia Watts Interior Design, Home Dining Room
We are excited to join in this year’s Luncheon by Design 2024 at the Denver Art Museum on 5/9, [which] explores the integration of design and nature, in celebration of the [now open] exhibition Biophilia: Nature Reimagined.
Organized by Darrin Alfred, Curator of Architecture and Design, Biophilia provides a space for leading architects, artists, and designers to re-examine and reanimate our intrinsic bond with the natural world.
This Thursday’s Luncheon by Design is an inspired presentation with the acclaimed architect Jeanne Gang, founding partner of international architecture and urban design practice Studio Gang. Gang will share an array of compelling projects around the world—and now in Denver—that underscore how she uses design to strengthen connections between people, communities, and nature.
Read more about the exhibition and purchase tickets HERE
Photograph by Oriol Tarridas, courtesy of Superblue Miami
What a wild and wonderful ride it has been! Designing The Lively Loggia and Jeweled Gallery at the Kips Bay 2024 Designer Showhouse in West Palm Beach, FL, was an exhilarating experience. Collaborating with The Shade Store, we created custom drapes using my Kravet Gem Collection Fabric, infusing the space with vibrant colors and luxurious textures.
Featured above: Drapery in the Jeweled Gallery using Kravet Gem Collection fabric, in collaboration with The Shade Store
Last week’s event at the Kravet showroom (Denver), hosted by The Shade Store, provided a fantastic opportunity to connect with the Denver design community and share the behind-the-scenes stories of our showhouse journey. I'm grateful to Kravet and The Shade Store for their amazing sponsorship, which made this project possible.
If you missed the discussion, not to worry! You can still take a virtual tour of the showhouse here, and check out this article, which features The Jeweled Gallery and offers inspiring design insights from the show.
Thank you to everyone who supported and followed along with our Kips Bay adventure. Stay tuned for more exciting projects to come!
Thank you House Beautiful and Kelly Allen for including us in this 3D design feature using All3D: a company that creates shockingly realistic renderings. To put their tech to the test, we asked five interior designers—Serena Dugan, Heather Peterson, Kiyonda Powell, Nadia Watts, and Anita Yokota—to reimagine the same bedroom in different ways.
See all five designers here!
Image by All3D
House Beautiful: What inspired your design?
Nadia Watts: Flora and fauna! Biophilia was top of mind for this project as I was in the midst of joining the committee for Luncheon By Design in Denver, featuring this amazing biophilia exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. I live in Colorado and nature has always been an inspiration. The idea of being intertwined with the natural world speaks to me. It’s the perfect starting point for design inspiration.
HB: Which pattern did you start with?
NW: The Porter Teleo wallcovering and the window coverings in The Gem Collection, which I created with Kravet, are where it all began. I fell in love with the large-scale pattern on the paper and then went with contrasting stripes on the ceiling by Sanderson and zig-zags on the draperies by Kravet. The biophilia shines in the paper. The geometric stripes and zig-zags perfectly complement the nature-inspired wallcovering.
HB: Describe the room you designed in three words.
NW: Whimsical, comfortable, and unique.
HB: What do you like most about the pattern-on-pattern trend?
NW: Pattern-on pattern forces you out of your comfort zone, and the results are always unique. It’s such an active and curious way to design a room. The “let’s try it and see” approach is so much fun. The pattern-on-pattern trend opens up so many possibilities. It broadens the creative process, which is always a treat.
HB: Can you share any tips for designing around this trend and choosing complementary patterns/colors?
NW: This trend thrives under an analogous color scheme. Choosing colors from the same family will help your patterns feel purposeful and curated. So choose a palette and stick to it. Your room will thank you for it. I like to use a mix of natural, free-flowing patterns with more structured geometric patterns. Also, keep scale in mind. You want to vary your scale with an assortment of small, medium, and large-scale prints.
HB: What role do you think technology like this will play in the future of design?
NW: This has been a huge year for technology in the design world. Having a tool that allows you to show your design concepts in such a tangible way is a game changer. Technology is making design more accessible for people, allowing them to see a space as the creative vision comes together.
At the seventh-annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach, 23 architects and designers reimagined an airy abode in West Palm Beach’s SoSo neighborhood. This year’s impressive designer roster includes five AD PRO Directory design studios—Ariel Okin Interiors, Donna Mondi Interior Design, Nadia Watts Interior Design, Redmond Aldrich Design, and Sara Story Design—each of whom took distinctively imaginative approaches. The show house, which benefits the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County, is open through March 17.
Read HERE
Written by Emily Moorman
Farrow & Ball Mizzle and Down Pipe
Teaming up Farrow & Ball's Mizzle and Down Pipe is a failsafe color combination for Denver-based interior designer Nadia Watts. In the kitchen shown above, Nadia used Mizzle as the main color choice across the kitchen cabinet ideas, adding contrast with Down Pipe for the kitchen island ideas.
'It's hard to choose just one favorite from Farrow & Ball,' she begins. 'I love the combination of Mizzle and Down Pipe. These in-between colors are almost like a neutral, they work well with so many other colors and patterns. Mizzle is a soft gray-green reminiscent of a misty drizzle, hence the name. The gray undertones work well with Down Pipe, which also has gray undertones. Down Pipe has a deep blue hue which brings complexity and richness. These two colors work great for cabinetry as well as walls. Because they are in between colors, they play well with others and will withstand trends.'
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Thank you House Beautiful and Catherine Dipersico for this lovely piece on the Kips Bay Palm Beach Show House! Read Here for all of the Takeaways.
The designers gave new life to the classic pink-and-green palette, seashell motifs, and more.
Thank you Christine Davis for this beautiful piece for the Showhouse.
Sargent Photography
Designer Nadia Watts of Denver is a great-great granddaughter of master jeweler and glass designer Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co., and she took cues from Tiffany’s rich color palette and design sensibility to welcome visitors to the show house. With a 13-foot ceiling, the front loggia features comfortable seating with a color pallet of green, gray and yellow.
From there visitors head into the foyer, which is decorated as gallery with a rich color scheme inspired by pieces of Tiffany leaded glass Watts has collected over the years. The forms in the hand-painted ceiling resemble leaded glass, and its colors are Tiffiny-esque turquoise and gold, complemented elsewhere by pink and tangerine.
The gallery’s custom hand-knotted, 28-foot rug has noteworthy center medallions. “In citrus, teal blue and bright-green chartreuse, they contain the shapes of an oval antique brooch, which is more than 125 years old and in the Tiffany archives,” she says.
Watts points out another nod to Tiffany — the lush adornments of tassels and trims.
Sargent Photography
Sargent Photography
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Jewel Tones Meet Colorful Accents
Photo: Nickolas Sargent Photography
A 28-foot custom rug by Retorra greets visitors to this lively entry room dubbed “Jeweled Gallery” by Nadia Watts Interior Design. The rug’s center medallions are modeled after an oval brooch from The Tiffany Archives. Jewel tones adorn the walls and ceiling, the latter of which is covered in a Porter Teleo wallcovering that was handmade for the room. Serving as the official art curator for several of the show’s designers, Singulart provided original art pieces like the vibrant pink painting by Gary Komarin above the sofa. Together, the room explores the interplay of color, from bright to muted to everything in between.