Channeling Cats, the Animal Print Craze in the Home Market Noted at High Point Market, Fall 2019
The Cat's Outta The Bag:
Home Takes Cues From Fashion With The Stunning Adornment of Animals & Animal Print!
Fall 2019/Winter 2020 by Glowsy
We know from the runway shows and fashion magazines this Fall, animal print and animal-inspired designs are popular right now-- it's certainly became the "look" for fall fashion 2019. However, the trend has increased for the home market as well as we noted at High Point Fall Market this past October. Some will say animal print has never gone out of style, and for decades animal print has been considered au courant. At Fall Market, cheetah-inspired prints on textiles, wallpaper, adorned on sculptures, lighting and more seemed top of everyone's mind. Speaking of trends, other home trends we noticed at Fall Market were printed velvets (more about that soon) and the combination of animal print and velvet takes the look over the top (in a good way).
As with most trends in interior design, this animal print gets blended with other patterns and textures from the designer's viewpoint, and the animal motif doesn't take over a home. Today's talented designers do a fantastic job at integrating animal print, and using it almost like a neutral while layering it and taking advantage of the textural aspects of the design. I love to see that, and our collective design eye is getting more and more sophisticated. This is just another reason why it's valuable when consumers and homeowners are involved in the process- we no longer need to bring clients along in the design process because they get educated from seeing it everyday in the world now. Today's interior design trends reach a large audience, and that's a good thing! Please note a few animal print motifs we saw as we traveled through Fall Market at record speed.
Happy Nesting
XO Tamara
Regina Andrew's Kenya Ceramic lamp
Scot Meacham Wood incorporated a gorgeous, luxurious
animal print rug into his layered dining room at the Junior League High Point Designer Showhouse
this Fall Market
I love seeing all the refreshing color mixed into their streamlined, luxurious collections at Bernhardt this Fall.
Animal magic comes alive in the Bernhardt showroom.
Interior designer Nick Olsen was invited to become Bernhardt's very first "designer in residence" and utilized his talented eye to curate pieces in the showroom- mission accomplished! The Jokhang Tiger Velvet fabric shown here on pillows and on upholstery in the Bernhardt showroom is stunning This fabric is from the new Schumacher collection with Johnson Hartig of Libertine
love the oversized animal print that almost feels like
an abstract design, Lexington Home Brands
Wildwood Home's big cats are stunning, and we would love to see these on a tabletop design for an extravagant dinner!
Ambella Home shows a beautiful array of animal print
in their gorgeous furniture. This season's animal prints
were noted in their showroom and worked beautifully mingled with their curated fabric collections and showcased on their upholstery.
Hickory Chair got in on the cheetah print mood.
They showed a nice, neutral version on a pillow above. This design would combine well into almost any home.
Jacob Lukas Design by designers Luke Mack and Kurt Jacob Miller with their "more is more" set table in the Alden Parkes Showroom showed a nuanced, layered table with some of the plates capturing animal motifs.
Plates are Fornasetti Wedgewood
