There are wide stripes, very wide, and small stripes, bandos and macro bands, horizontal, oblique, bicolor or multicolor, marinièr, masculine or hippie style!
The trend for summer 2017 are stripes, both in fashion and interior design.
Stripes never stop fascinating designers and stylists.
Stripes create strong optical illusions and they play with light with essential graphic and fantasy. They are colorful and filled with an explosion of colors that recalls Brazil and Mexico and manifest their liveliness with unedited effect.
Paul Smith made of his colorful stripes a personal declaration of crazy happiness.
The horizontal blue and white stripes of Breton fishermen identifies the sea style that recalls the beach umbrellas of the Riviera Romagnola or Brigitte Bardot’s French Riviera.
The trend of stripes is timeless in homes and it is able to remodel spaces thanks to a refined optical illusion.
Spaces will be able to look larger or smaller by simply adjusting the “palette” or by changing the thickness of the stripes to obtained the desired effect.
There are different options for wallpapers: the classic black and white (Fermliving –“Black and White”), the one with more tonalities to insert in the same space (Jannelli e Volpi – “Strictly Stripes”), the more sophisticated one where stripes are interpreted with designs that look like wood, ideal for bedrooms (Wall & Deco – “Floor”) or are made out of drawings like pencils, perfect for children’s’ rooms (Mr. Perswall – “Pen Pall”) and even evoking nature with black and white trees (Mr. Perswall – “Trees”).
Then there are the “Wallpaper picta”, hand painted with different strokes that give depth and the idea of a fresco.
Even curtains can create a side scene with a striped effect, like the ones by Nya Nordiska with the fabric “Ruben” or have a gradient effect where colors blend in seven variations with “Seven Shades” by Dedar.
Using it on furniture is more difficult, but can give a touch of great personality to a plain corner.
This year Driade presented their “Zag-zig” tables with irregular forms and optical décor on a laminated surface. In the renewed folding chair “Piccy” by Campeggi, designed by Vico Magistretti, a beech tree is created with red or blue striped printed on cotton.
In Bonaldo and Seletti’s furniture stripes are very colorful and of great impact.
They are original if used on linen. We find them in Bossi’s sheets, in Marimekko’s spunges where green, red and white are alternated or in the nice natural colors of Libeco.
Even Wegwood’s luxurious ceramic has an interesting striped collection called “Lee Bloom”.
There are countless examples of stripes, just think about the fantasies of icons like Jean Paul Gaultier or Pablo Picasso, or the sabot “summerstripes” by Sergio Rossi.
Stripes can be thought of in a thousand ways, with colors of our dreams and our infinite possibilities.
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