CURRENTS
CURRENTS
FORTIES
FEVER
Brooklyn designers are feeling the 1940s in rooms and objects with curves,
facets, fringe and velvet. Sculptural shapes invoke Jean Arp and Picasso.
Madcap black-and-white pops, jitterbugs and caffeinates. Natural materials
such as wood and terrazzo ground and solidify. Jewel-tone colors like
emerald and pink tourmaline soothe. —Cate Corcoran
Clockwise from top left: A 1940s-inflected boudoir by Ascher Davis Architects with Mahwish Syed Designs in the 2019
Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse with curvy chair, fringed stool and velvet curtains, photo by Susan De Vries;
concrete terrazzo mirror by Brooklyn-based design company Trueing; Dotty Hex cement tile by Brooklyn’s Grow House
Grow, photo by Katie Deedy/Grow House Grow; Arch coffee table by Brett Miller of Leeds, N.Y.-based Jack Rabbit Studio
available at Clinton Hill home store and coffee shop Relationships, styling and photo by Pippa Drummond; faceted
Brim sconce in green by Manhattan’s Rich Brilliant Willing.
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FORTIES
FEVER
Brooklyn designers are feeling the 1940s in rooms and objects with curves,
facets, fringe and velvet. Sculptural shapes invoke Jean Arp and Picasso.
Madcap black-and-white pops, jitterbugs and caffeinates. Natural materials
such as wood and terrazzo ground and solidify. Jewel-tone colors like
emerald and pink tourmaline soothe. —Cate Corcoran
Clockwise from top left: A 1940s-inflected boudoir by Ascher Davis Architects with Mahwish Syed Designs in the 2019
Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse with curvy chair, fringed stool and velvet curtains, photo by Susan De Vries;
concrete terrazzo mirror by Brooklyn-based design company Trueing; Dotty Hex cement tile by Brooklyn’s Grow House
Grow, photo by Katie Deedy/Grow House Grow; Arch coffee table by Brett Miller of Leeds, N.Y.-based Jack Rabbit Studio
available at Clinton Hill home store and coffee shop Relationships, styling and photo by Pippa Drummond; faceted
Brim sconce in green by Manhattan’s Rich Brilliant Willing.