Spice Up Your Holiday Décor With Middle Eastern Flair

ALO — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 06:43:38 +0000

It’s the season! The holidays call for glitz and glamour, and there is no better décor that defines seasonal style than Middle Eastern-inspired décor.

Whether you are celebrating Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Diwali, or Kwanzaa, holiday decorating with a global flair is always in style. In multigenerational, multicultural households that observe a variety of holiday celebrations, Moroccan-inspired holiday décor is a perfect fit to elevate your seasonal decorating.

Create Holiday Warmth with A Festive Moroccan Color Scheme

Moroccan décor brings people together, transcends boundaries, and appeals to a wide variety of tastes, cultures, and backgrounds. It allows for imagination and creativity, it creates a lively and boisterous environment, and it is the perfect accompaniment to the sights and sounds of the holiday season.

The deep crimson reds, intense golds, burnished oranges, and rich earth tones of Moroccan décor are the perfect colors to perfectly capture the exuberance and joy of the holiday season. By incorporating these rich and vibrant colors into your holiday decorating, you can instantly add festive holiday ambience to your home’s living and dining spaces.

Balance Luxurious Holiday Excess With Nature-Inspired Accents

Honor both cherished traditions and innovative trends with an eclectic mix of décor that includes a delicate balance of holiday excess and natural minimalism.

Need inspiration? Simply look to the great outdoors to supplement your holiday design style. Create a centerpiece for your buffet table with sprigs of spruce, evergreen, berries, or bunches of forest twigs displayed in a glass vase or wicker basket to enhance the holiday mood. Fresh or faux greenery exudes natural warmth and rustic elegance, while also adding visual interest to your traditional holiday décor.

To further enhance your display, you can include a selection of family ornaments or holiday keepsakes that have been passed down for generations, which will not only add a pop of color, but also meaningful symbolism.

Set A Holiday Table That Will Be The Toast Of The Town

As you raise your glass and toast to good cheer, good fortune, and good times together with family and friends, make sure your holiday table is dressed to impress. When you’re sharing a delicious holiday feast, decorative Moroccan table accents and dinnerware can instantly create an air of festive elegance and timeless sophistication.

It’s an undeniable fact that delicious food and the holidays go hand in hand. This year, try elevating your serving style with items that are both functional and festive. For example, you can display a rustic and sustainable wooden cutting board for serving delicious meats, breads, jams, nuts, crackers, and other small and tasty bites for family and friends to enjoy.

Give your guests an unforgettable dining experience with elegant holiday place settings and use a stylish cocktail set for mixing your favorite holiday beverages and craft cocktails. To enhance the beauty of your holiday table, create a warm glow with a sophisticated candle pedestal or iron candelabra, or add touches of brass or gold for a dash of Old-World elegance.

Make Time For Self-Care During The Busy Holiday Season

Even during the busiest time of the year, it’s essential to prioritize your health and minimize stress. While you’re preparing to entertain, shop, clean, and more, make sure you take time to relax, reflect, and enjoy the ones you love. And of course, it always helps to have your favorite coffee or tea in a reusable mug to provide an energy boost, whether you’re at home or on the go.

With the right balance of self-care and holiday celebrations, you can truly enjoy the reason for the season.

This Colorful Apartment in Northern Italy Embraces Bold and Bright Design

ALO — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 01:18:59 +0000

This very colorful apartment is in northern Italy’s province of Bergamo, a locale known for its dramatic landscapes of alpine peaks and valleys. This space offers a dramatic backdrop for daily life much like its province. The 1,700-square-foot home’s riot of different hues was orchestrated by Edoardo and Giulia Anna Milesi of Italian studio Eduardo Milesi & Archos.

Colors punctuate and define the different areas of this eclectic penthouse designed—not surprisingly—for a couple of art collectors, in which “every detail is thought out and realized to give life to a comfortable, intimate, and uncluttered home,” as the architects say. The living area is a seamless open space lined by windows that open to a large panoramic terrace with a breathtaking view. Inside the loft, different materials repeat and interact with each other in a playful exchange that guides visitors to discover the various rooms, “sometimes concealed by secret doors and at other times revealed through small details.” A notable feature of the apartment are the walnut and birch partitions, which effectively divide the space. Oil-treated light oak floors are found throughout most of the apartment while the kitchen island is treated with a bold turquoise resin. In one of the bathrooms, ceramic tiles provide color while in the guest bathroom that task is left to the bright wallpaper.

Two polychrome Wink armchairs by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina steal the show in the living area, in stark contrast to the sleek lines of the DS-450 sofa by Thomas Althaus and the solid wood Barrel chairs by Frank Lloyd Wright which are placed around the custom-designed dining table that sits between the living room and the kitchen. Photo: Andrea Ceriani, Courtesy of Studio Edoardo Milesi & Archos

Custom-made furniture is juxtaposed with classic design objects that the owners have collected over the years. Photo: Andrea Ceriani, Courtesy of Studio Edoardo Milesi & Archos

The apartment’s interior design features a juxtaposition of custom-made furniture along with classic design objects collected over the years by the homeowners—a couple who are enthusiastic collectors of art and design objects from Italy and beyond. In the bedroom, the iconic Traccia table by Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim is paired with the wooden Dodicesima Notte bed by Luca Meda (here its headboard has been left unupholstered). The bedroom also has a blue Edo chair by Kisho Kurokawa. The stars of the living area, on the other hand, are the two polychrome Wink armchairs by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina, which contrast with the sleek lines of the DS-450 sofa by Thomas Althaus and the solid wood Barrel chairs by Frank Lloyd Wright which are placed around the custom-designed dining table that divides the living room and the kitchen.

This colorful apartment was first published by AD Italy.