2025's Biggest Interior Design Revival: 70s Style Is Back

0:28And I'm just here to tell you this wasn't my idea. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Dear Alice. Today, we are going to take you back in time and talk about the 70s. Old school cool. Maybe one of the coolest decades ever. I think so. I think a very influential decade as far as design goes. 100%. I know, Mom. I can hear you. I can hear you all the way from here. You are rolling your eyes and saying, there's no way this is back. And I'm just here to tell you, this wasn't my idea. We're seeing this from all of the magazines right now. It's science. It's science. Yes. We're seeing it in, um, House Beautiful just did a huge, um, article on it.

1:07We're seeing Vogue printing things on this. We saw runway, um, for fall and I'm telling you, seventies are back. So we wanted to unpack it here. It's been creeping for a bit. I feel like just kind of the moodier, like vibier, you know, like amber colored, like things have kind of been happening for a little bit. And now I feel it's just landed and we're in that pocket it right now yeah and it is a response to like we were like again covid cold icy optic whites everybody was doing gray houses white houses with black windows it's been very soft sadness yeah well it's like cold and cool yeah icy yep makes me feel like my teeth hurt because i whitened them too much you know that feeling too much fluoride too much fluoride yeah or sour patch kids yeah that's what was happening so this response this response is like warming it up making it earthy getting it grounded you're seeing so many like house plants coming in I have to say even just like street style I'm seeing the baby tees nobody come for me on this but girls are not wearing bras again I mean I've noticed it yeah I mean of course that was a thing in the 70s It's yeah.

2:22And then of course we've had the center, the center part for a long time on girls. And then it's like the mermaid waves where it's very natural and undone and like effortless, which really requires so much effort to get that undone look. Right. And I think that's so seventies. Also the sneakers on girls with, with every kind of outfit, which I really love. That's one of my favorite, one of my favorite things. So like very flat grounded shoes again, or the opposite. I've been seeing the clog with the high platform. Yeah. The platform's in. And it all kind of has like a modern like twist. Yeah. Twist to it.

2:58So. Yeah. Yeah. So we wanted to talk about like where we're seeing it, how they're doing it and like our fresh take on it. Yes. Yeah. Because we're because it's happening. We're doing it. Even the installs that we're like working on right now that we've designed three, four years ago have a lot of these notes in it, which is really fun to see it just like across the market. everybody was feeling it then and now it's kind of coming to fruition in all these finished homes which is really really cool and we're so excited to show you but first we want to talk a little bit if you are a designer and you are designing homes right we you should be part of our to the trade program if I honestly when I was on my own for a little bit before I started working for Alice Lane and I tell you what if I had a resource like Alice Lane where like I had all their vendors I had their libraries to look through i have an actual rep to help me source things like it's a no-brainer and that's your team yeah and as far as like they follow the orders they follow claims they follow deliveries um that is what the to the trade program offers and so um if you're not a part of it definitely join um you just go on to alice lane home.com and you go to the design services tab and you go to the trade link and fill that out and we'll reach out to you and you can start immediately and it's just relieve all your headaches that's what this is a little happy pill so you're welcome join her to the trade program anything else to that no no we just we just built it for you guys because we're designers too and we know what the team needs and it's so hard what we do yeah and we have this big resource and we've been at it for 17 years we got we got to share this with other people and also we make our own products now we have like 700 of our own SKUs.

4:36And so we want to be able to give you guys special access to that discounts, everything else. Exclusivity. So your projects look unique and not like other people's. So yeah. As they should. As they should. Yes. Anyway, we're on standby to help you if you want it. Yeah. Okay. Back to the seventies. What is something from that era that you guys like incorporate in your personal style, either, I guess at home or yeah. Wardrobe. Let's go to the, I want to show them on screen. this is some really fun clips who's put this together for y 'all so if you should tune in on youtube or spotify to see these visuals it's so fun i mean for me i well i'm loving the color again yeah right i think that's so fun but i really am loving the footwear aspect where you can really be comfortable um i just feel like the toe boxes are more comfortable for our feet you can wear tennis shoes with dresses with jeans i do love the like and you don't know what you're doing until So you like reach back to the 70s and start to look at all these because like you see it like an influencers or people that you follow and you're like, I dig her style or I dig these new silhouettes coming out from this design line or whatever.

5:42But I would say like the accessories, the accessorizing, I think just like the layers of jewelry. I think I think specs obviously were like a huge deal in the 70s. And I love a spec. You know that. She's got an aviator right now with a rose tinted lens and it's so cute on her. And and again, I think the 70s like the rules are out. We're out, you know, and I think it was just so about like individual style. And I'm just, I love that. Just like whatever, whatever you're into, like you can kind of like express that avenue in some way. Like they did in the 70s. And I just, I dig it. That's when you do you was invented probably.

6:17Exactly. Honestly, damn the man. You do you. But yeah, up here we have Blondie. She's such a fox. Wiggy, all of her cute things like 60s and then her like evolution to the 70s. Robert Redford. Hello. tomcat mcjaggart there's so many clips of him if you start to look at 70s style but it's fun if you just like go online and just start to like look at 70s like influences and it's really it's fascinating yeah share looks the exact same i know it's crazy so good it's awesome okay let's jump into it let's do it okay well tones yes right yeah there's a few things that we want to like cover here um today again and these are like just said ways to incorporate the 70s into your home in a fresh way.

6:59We're going to show you how we're doing it, how the runway is doing it, and just see what clicks for you. Because I do think that there's ways to add warmth and soul, which I think the 70s brought a lot of. And so a few of the different things we're going to be going over is, again, earth tones. I think mustard yellow in particular, actually all versions of yellow, I think we're going to hit on because the runway had a pretty broad variety mostly mustard but then you get into some like lemony chiffons um and then of course like we all remember avocado green and browns so whatever your favorite color of those earth tones are that's something that you can pull in we're going to focus a little bit more on yellow today um we're also going to be let's just start with let's just go yeah let's go with yellow okay okay um i also want to give a shout out because in the 70s i remember my mom buying appliances and you could get them in i think it was called harvest gold or avocado green like those were your appliance colors so funny and actually kohler has like they're mostly greens i actually looked it up last night we'll put it up on here anyway they have a bunch of different and they feel maybe a little bit more 50s 60s like the mint greens and things but like all those as far as like toilet sinks all those things like they have lines so it's called like the heritage line it's pretty sick it's pretty sick if you want to you know like make a move um color's got you and i'm sure a lot other lines are also introducing it but it is really fun but like i don't know you can do it if you want so so fun it's so fun i can see the younger generations doing it i don't think that like our parents will because they remember it and they're like oh i should have never gotten that yellow washer machine or dishwasher or whatever it was but it feels like benson boone would do it I know.

8:41I'm like, it's a groovy move. And if you're color drenching and you can totally like match your paint to the toilet, I think you would do it. A hundred percent I would do it. Yeah. I live in a 1970s ranch. You should. Yeah. You should be the first one. We in Sioux Hall. Yeah. Someone in 30 years is going to, like, if you do that, someone in 30 years is going to be stoked that you did. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Design like you give a damn, right? Exactly. Design like you give a damn. So, wise words from Sioux Hall. I know. But with, I think you mentioned this, the introduction of this, like, I was scrolling on instagram one day and house i ran upon this thing and like the headline was the 1970s are back in a major way and it was like this really quick clip from house beautiful and i sent it to everybody and we're like we need to talk about this yeah this is happening yeah it's yeah exactly anyway so the images that you're seeing on your screen right now again we're going to kind of dive into yellow right now um and jess would yeah um so this is the hermes show um this this is um showing the fall lineup and mustard yellow is the king on the runway.

9:43They're pairing it with red, which is kind of this bright orangey red, these color combinations. Yeah. Yeah. It's very color blocky. Also deep notes. Like they've got black leather paired with it. On the runway, you're seeing some of these shots. You've got scarves, you've got leather collars on these beautiful trenches and mustard. And the look is just so, it's good. It's almost military in some ways. yeah um but then you've got some flowy drapey lines um really love that but you can just you can feel it you can feel it coming back so that was Hermes and then um moving on to Gucci this yellow was more like your um mustard that you put on a hot dog like bright yellow not the deep dark a little bit of neon exactly yes the neon it's really cool super fresh right yeah I'm like if you want to take that yellow I'm like it reminds me a little bit like of the yellow and the Frida I have to say acidic almost, right?

10:38Like look at that number in the runway. And this is color drenched from head to toe. Every single thing from the hat to the jacket to the skirt to the purse to the shoes. Everything drenched in one pattern, one color. But it's really editorial. But it's all set on that like tomato, orangey, red. Background. Again, so you're seeing that color combo again. Yep. You see that there. Yep. This is Prada. Yeah, Prada, Lacoste, and Louboutin. Yep, all of them yellow. And in varying shades, I would say. And how about the yellow on yellow in the first one? Is that Prada? Yep. That leather jacket is a more natural yellow.

11:14Yep. And then paired with that bright, acidic, almost neon yellow pants. It's so cool. Anyway, it was everywhere. Everywhere on the runway is what we were seeing. And then moving into Chloe. Now, Chloe is definitely always. She's always like kind of hanging out in the 70s. She's very flowy and romantic. And this is where we, I think this is more butter yellow or what you're calling chiffon. Yeah. But it's like a lemon glaze. Yes. If you're like not ready, Polly. Yeah. Your mom. Yeah. Not ready to go full mustard. I think this is like a really good way to kind of tiptoe your way into introducing yellow into your home without being overtaking.

11:52Yep. Like you're not going to do it the same way you did it. Just much like my mom's not going to probably buy the appliances in the colors. But there's a fresh take on it for any of us. And so maybe you don't love the mustard yellow vibe, or maybe it's not your color palette, but maybe this butter yellow trend could be something that's something you want to bring into your house. And we're going to show you actually now, if you're watching on screen, this is how we're using it in our projects. After all, this is an interior design podcast. So we're going to show you interior design. But we just wanted to show that this is what we're seeing coming down the runway, which is always a good indicator that we're also going to be filling this in home.

12:28These things all hold hands and touch and they're all reflecting personal style. So Sue, tell me about this project. Yeah, this is a project down in Dallas and we did, they had a really lovely kitchen, but then we had the opportunity to design a scullery kitchen. You know, this accessory that also kind of acted as the mudroom and we're like, it would be really fun to do some color. And again, this was a couple of years ago that we rendered this out and we found this like again this kind of like ochre mustardy zelige tile and we're like that'd be so rad so like see just feel it like top you know countertop to ceiling this whole tiled backsplash in this yellow just like it's such a power move it's i think it's artistic um it's earthy it still like feels kind of neutral it's a color but that i don't know there's something about the mustard that you like it can it can pair well with camels and with like a lot of both in woods really beautifully.

13:21And it gave it a little history. And then, you know, having this mustard tile, zealot handmade tile surrounding it just felt so rich, but fresh. And I think this is a memory point. This was actually a home that a builder did to be a spec home. And so you do want to create those memory points. So people are like, oh, remember that, that room? Oh, I just, I'd love to come home to that every night. So you want to do certain things that the people remember. You don't just want to design a vanilla box for a spec home, especially a luxury spec home. And you'd want kind of an antique table with that color of tile.

13:54Oh, yes. Like those are some history. Yeah. Yeah. It's believable. Yep. You know, like you would actually love that. And the person that would pick that would also pick that table. Exactly. Anyway, so I love this piece. Here we're getting into another new build that we're working actually right now. I'm so excited. And this is a little bit more of that chiffon yellow. And we paired it. But this is, again, this is a bathroom that you're seeing on the screen right now. There's some style little images. But, again, we're a little bit more of the Siobhan. And we paired it with this cherry cola glossy tile for the whole shower.

14:26That cherry cola is also something we're calling oxblood. Oh, yeah, totally. If you're watching, it's kind of that oxblood note. And it is so pretty with that buttery yellow. Yeah, so good. Corey, go back up to the lifestyle images. this always helps us when we're designing a project to pull different outfits different lifestyle scenes that really have pairings and it helps the client really picture their life there and to really understand the color combination when we're taking a risk and trying to do something that feels very original so I think this combination is just so pretty and then how we interpret it in the bathroom we don't have any finished images because this is a home under construction right now but this is going to be just rich but also original and calming and still feel so high-end this is the bathroom for her like her daughter who's going to be an interior designer and she's hip and she's darling and we'll put like cool slim errands pictures of like boats and cognacs and again those yellow swimsuits and things happening within all this and the art just kind of pulls it all together so i'm so excited for this but again we didn't do the yellow on the cabinetry here but we did it on the wall so that way if we like it now we have the flexibility but I don't think I would tire of this combination yeah it's so so cool it's a fun way though to pull in something that might be something that might be trending is that you do it on the wall because that's the least expensive thing to change yep exactly you're not ripping out the cabinetry so we're so excited for that that's a really easy way to do it um this next one I love so much this is a home that we just installed and this is just like if you're not ready to do envelop an entire space in the mustard i think these like little accents of having it like on pillows on like little small accent furniture you have a yellow chair in your house i have bits of yellow throughout we did the starling velvet mushroom stool nested underneath this like center hall table in the stairwell and i just love it and every time you looked like at that spot from any direction it grabbed you it like was arresting it was like just a little bit of a slap in the face that that needed to have to like say okay these homeowners are young they're fun and like your furniture and your layers can say that about you so just kind of cue into like what is your shade are you an avocado are you mustard are you lemon it's a fairly traditional space but you have a funkier center hall table and then you have this like shot of color anyway these little notes so Again, we'll kind of tell a story about who lives there.

16:56So I love that this space did that. I love that too. Go mustard yellow. I know. Okay, same house. This was in there like the first two images that we're going to show you from the man cave. And you have, again, these like rad profiled little chairs. Again, a lot of, I think the 70s was really good. Not only with like their color, but also just like their organic shapes and non-directional. Like you see it like the mushroom stool. It's, you know, it's a radius. I think it was just like to take the edge off the strictness that society was forcing upon them. Yeah. Those tight bras. Exactly. So I love that first one.

17:33Again, those chairs are rad. And also a thing about yellow is that you can get that not only through like fabrics, but also like gold framing. And this first, we got this again from First Dibs. I think also that's a great way to like pull if you pull in anything vintage that you just resonate with. That's like a sheer sign of just like it's a cool cat move. So we got this cool cheetah original painting from First Dibs paired it with these round chairs. And it's a mood like it's so so fun. OK, so in this man cave we have again, we have like this little moment behind the sofa, which the sofa is also kind of this mustardy, camel-y color.

18:08And then you have these almost like yellow chartreuse-y colored on the chairs. But then you also are introducing the greens. And it's amazing how all these get along with each other in this space. And it's really, it's the painting. And it's some of those like accents that kind of pull everything together. But they live really harmoniously together. I love this. And again, we introduce like warm woods, golds in the frames. And it's just, it's a mood. It is a mood. I think I would want to stay in this room for a very, very long time. I love it. I love the bits of yellow. And the wood drenching that we're feeling, which is another big, big thing from the 70s.

18:44that we saw we would always see those like wood paneled rooms and it wasn't even always real wood sometimes it was sometimes it was like simulated walnut grain you remember that's like the stuff they made alarm clocks out of back then yeah sometimes that type of paneling was on the walls but there was this real wood drench here's the basement yes sue hall has that basement because she has a home built in the 70s like that 70s show yeah totally but this house definitely incorporates wood drench which we'll get into but um we're still hanging out in the color yellow and avocado green on the chair here and the barstools yes i will say on this window bench it was originally a neutral like just a woven and this was like a last minute call and i'm so happy we did this yeah like it's just anyway it you guys changed it to we changed it to something more exciting yeah because the client's more fun and anyway we're like we can't give you a neutral bench so take opportunities like that to express yourself sue whose house is this this is whose orphans are those my little my little lip nickies right there they're so cute um yeah this is our little 19 again our house was built in 1971 so there's a lot of notes in my house anyway that like just kind of scream the 70s which i dig i love it yeah um and so we brought in again this giorgio pillow that we have that it's kind of our bread and butter of velvet pillows like we have it in several colors i brought two of these in the yellow home and again i have this kind of like black and white um woven diagonal stripe on my sofa which is really cool i can put a lot of things with it but i tell you what when i put a velvet on that it sings there's something about the texture of that that's a little bit more dry mixed with the velvet of this and just like the pungent and like purpose of this that is so such magic with this and just like two of them um and i let it's amazing like when i because i already had this like cool kind of acrylic table nesting over my Luca cocktail table which also brought in that okra color so I've had that for a second um it's amazing when I brought these pillows and like all this trifecta between the table the pillows and then all of a sudden you see my gold frame over there in the corner um so much more brilliantly yeah I just I love it I love my little house it brightens up a space it does like and it can like it combines so beautifully with like with any color like I have a pink rug but like honestly yeah you can you've seen the color blocking that yellow has the power to do so so good suz i heard you got cozy earth's new luxury blanket and i want you to tell us about it i did it's my very favorite new toy it's the bubble cuddle blanket from cozy earth and it's this faux fur that is the softest blanket i've ever experienced all my family we all go downstairs we watch movies together almost every night in the summer and we all fight over our blanket and I think I won.

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22:02It should be your happy place. Cozy Earth makes that possible. Oh, Tiger Oak. We had to put this in because like I was looking through our portfolio when we were putting this together. I was just like, okay, 70s, like look at that sectional. Like there's nothing more like shagglish just than that right there. Also paired with the avocado green casings yeah right I just think it's so good and then that velvet is like a crushed velvet which also feels very 70s a low song sectional yeah it's great it's a party and that acidic kind of yellowy green little moment to take a phone call yeah the banquette paired with that um that green metal shade on that pendant just absolutely so stylish so cool so 70s yeah I mean that is that is like real style those are things that you wouldn't dare do and let's be honest Tiger Oak was 2018 you know nobody was doing this they were doing gray and white in 2018 so I mean just real true style and a really cool combination between the client the designers to to pull out a look like this it was just so original and fun this is a house that won the Parade of Homes I think in every category that year it was just kitchen of the year and kitchen of the year for house beautiful yeah this was just such a great one and continues to be something that people talk about celebrate it still yeah it's awesome okay all right the next on the table so we've hit the yellow um let's talk about like wood yes everyone's feeling like we're going more toward warm toned woods um we're not doing like the light the light white oak we're still using we love white oak um but we're staining it to be a little bit more carameled when we get up a bit walnut-y.

23:44We just want that depth. And so you feel that a lot in the 70s, which we're going to show you. But also we just want to shout out to Burl because that House Beautiful article that I found, it was just like really focused on yellow and Burl. Like those are the two hot topics, which we love. I know you guys are developing like a bunch of stuff in Burl. Yes. So I'm like, we should talk about that for a sec. It's launching at the very end of November, right beginning of October. We're still messing around with it on the calendar but yeah you're gonna see in just a little over a month this beautiful new burled collection called george um launch and it's nightstands it's a dresser and um yeah it's a pedestal you and we are doing a pedestal yes you're gonna see a gallery pedestal come out from us probably beginning of 26 so that you can put your sculptures on it um handsome in a men's office so we'll get into all that but burl is definitely something that if you haven't seen it yet you're going to be seeing it we have this through accessories on our website right now um burl boxes that are super popular in trays yeah yeah i did my bathroom in burl yeah you did we did bro walnut and i love it so much and again 1970s like what should i do in my 1970s house when we did the remodel and i'm like burl we should do burl gosh dang it burl just gives like the entire piece interest in like every square inch of it so yeah i put that um right image for you cory because i'm like those guitars are so rad anyway they're just like a real i don't know it's a cool factor again with like these modeled woods these colors and then you get like musical instruments on there you're just like i'm i feel like i'm in a music video it's so so cool okay and then here's a couple examples of just and it's funny after like we decided to do this um again I think Big Brother heard me and my algorithm has just been like spitting all this wood drenching out to me because these are just like all pins that I was just like naturally like gravitating toward and pinning all weekend.

25:39Not only just like for my own eyeballs, but for projects that we're working on. So here are a couple like examples of wood drenching. We've heard of color drenching, but wood drenching was such a thing in the 70s. Again, back to the paneling you were talking about and just like feeling, feeling something holistically is just, it's such a mood. It's such a mood. And the 70s was all about a mood. Brings a vibe and some like coziness to it. You kind of like feel the walls around you a little bit when there's, you know, like a paneling on them or something like that. So. Totally. I'm like in Palm Springs right now in my head in that Jonathan Adler Hotel.

26:14And it's just Parker. It is. Yeah. It is so groovy. And it's such a mood. And you want to just hang out and have a great conversation with interesting characters. Tell secrets. I mean, we're seeing this done in a more modern way. I mean, these are obviously like modern homes today. And this is how people are interpreting it. We also see this a lot, I feel like, in home gyms with like wood slats, like tiny slats to get that feeling. It feels kind of spa-like. Men's offices. We also see wood drenching, living rooms. Yeah, powder baths. Really cool. Oh, yes. And then here's an example on screen right now.

26:51This is a project that we just installed in Texas. and um there's an option to um to do this all of this beautiful um finish work and paint it and last minute call Suzanne you guys decided to just stain it yeah and really feel this wood drench head to toe and the payoff is extraordinary guys it's my favorite again there's a lot of hot pockets in this house that I love so much but I'm like this is my everyone's like what's your favorite part of desert oaks I'm like this this foyer receiving area I just think it's such a moon it was supposed to feel historic and doing a wood drench if you want to feel history and you want to feel something and say you're not like you don't want to do a color drench like take it wood like it's really something and so if you're traditional you can still do it you don't have to do a you know 70s panel you can just do a you know just a traditional panel work but do it in a stain grade and it'll again pay you back in space and just like really evoke a feeling is this oak is that used there yeah cool but stained for what's got to be walnut is it white or red oh do you know white white yeah cool yeah i like the plain sawn of it so you're like not seeing that tight grain as much as you know can we have been like the last like 10 years but you're kind of seeing the cathedrals of like the yeah and the the figuring of the of the grain it's really cool and then it like gives some depth to the wood too it's not just like a flat brown panel you know yeah no there's a real strength in it like in this whole space and again you can see we even introduced some of the rust tones and anyway just some of these again just kind of 70s non-directional cool silhouettes in here zebra um i think all these things kind of reference back to that to that era yeah i love it wood drenching in cabinetry is something that we like to do in in key spaces not everybody's up for it in the kitchen but um here we're showing you um a man's office we have from floor to ceiling this beautiful cabinet um it's almost like it almost feels floating in the middle of the room like it almost feels like an old trophy case you know what I mean in like the high school hallway but way cooler and in uh kind of a warmer what would you call that wood it's like a white oak but white oak but it's just again that honey colored like again we just had to like give our samples to the cabinet maker to match just because like we really wanted this feeling again because when you color block with like with wood you know just feeling that blue with that honey it's almost again it feels like yellow yeah it feels like yellow but in the wood form right totally oh just the crumbles look so cool okay this next project is one that's being built in or in northern california and again we so depending on where you're at in the nation right i think there's some like east coast you're going to be probably be a little bit darker more historic that way um California we still kind of feel a little bit more of that kind of bleached wood and so we're taking the wood paneling in this family room I'm a little bit lighter but we did decide to take it in the whole family room and I'm just so so excited to see this happen um again we're wood paneled in this entire family room which is pretty big um but because it was big it kind of needed to be have something saturation some saturation on the walls and so you can kind to see these are some just the vignettes we put together that do feel california but they feel iconic like i feel like a movie producer should live here definitely and like a movie should nancy meyer's movie should be filmed here you know like there's something really just a cool factor to this space and i think honestly in the 70s i think it's just the edit of those the profiles um that was just everything felt so iconic and it was so different you know and you color block those things not necessarily pattern on everything but it's a lot of solids so that's why you fill these like saturations with wood with yellow with all these tones anyway i just love it so this is a fresh way to do that and then we're also doing it in a cabin that we have here in utah um down by cedar city and in fact they loved it so much because we have a lot of the tng happening on the ceiling and we brought it onto the built-ins that we're adding it to more walls because they just love it so much and they want to feel it there's really there's a feeling you smell it in a cabin don't you just you want to be surrounded by wood it's like nature yeah and you feel like you're in a tree house you're just surrounded by like pines and snow and like there's a real warmth to it so here's like the ski locker room we did the horizontal slot here with a lot of metal like accents and things happening which is so cool this is a groovy this is right off that ski room um again we feel a lot of that wood drenching we feel the mustard and the tile um i hope you're watching this because there's so many visuals to this one guys um but if you're not tune in later and like go flip through these because it's really really fun and I'm excited we'll be installing this one this fall so I can't wait to show you guys it's going to be a good one another really key thing that we've seen from the 70s is macrame I know mom you're dying I think you made a macrame for the living room wall when we were growing up this was something I mean I feel like it's the 70s were very crafty right oh yeah yeah So we saw this a lot in beach season over the last two summers where St.

31:59Laurent and actually every single high-end brand had some form of macrame or woven raffia purse or bag or tote. And so this is what we were seeing in fashion. And then in the home, we're seeing this done in chandeliers where you've got either raffia or natural shells or beads that are formed into different shapes to give you this same effect. We've got a couple of different installations here from projects that we've used. And it really gives you a beautiful sort of solid form. There's one here in like the shape of a wedding cake, others that dome more. My home is in the middle. This is my primary bedroom where that soft shape just hangs right in the middle of the room.

32:44It's almost like a water fountain upside down made out of cocoa beads. And I just love the effect. It's so natural and soothing and takes the edge off in any scene. It feels really relaxing. Yeah. This is a really easy way to loosen up a space. Definitely. I think we can thank the 70s for this. I don't think so. Yeah. This is in our Lover's Lane project again on the light. again those tiny little cocoa beads when you like you look up close you can see that they're cocoa beads but from far away it does feel like this like lace work or macrame a huge like a huge piece of coral yeah it's been you know crafted out of natural materials like art i mean like again to the craftiness you know it was like made by hands and that's what this kind of gives back exactly yeah okay okay last but not least plants plants plants in the home high five yeah it's like living sculpture and I know we've been um like we've been doing the we did the olive tree probably like 10 years ago I remember I had an olive tree in my house and slowly um the olive trees become a little bit less popular and the filly fig a little bit less popular and now more of these wilder more interesting varieties and this is a project we just installed in Las Vegas and Sue tell them about this cool resource you found because you trade designers and actually any of you design enthusiasts are going to want to know that this is a resource.

34:02Yeah. Yeah. In LA, there's a company called plant daddies. You heard me plant daddies. She said, sorry, she said in LA, Los Angeles. I blur my words all the time. I just wanted to make sure they heard. Cause yeah. So they worked obviously with this, with this client of ours through us in Las Vegas. Cause it's close, but will they go nationwide? Do you know? I think so. They'll help like actually source everything for you, but they find these like amazing varieties of plants or they'll like find this like cactus that's fallen they'll kind of resurrect it and like put it in a rad planter and they're just it's the coolest thing he actually used to be he's like architecturally trained and then covid happened and he started to sell like house plants on market facebook marketplace and it just turned into this like crazy business where it is sculpture it is incredible it's the most fun follow um you should hop on instagram right now and follow plant the plant daddies um it's really daddies right daddies yep okay yep there's a lot there's several of them but um but they do these exposed root sculpture and it's you see these things we kept seeing these things on like pinterest and this is the energy that we wanted to bring to this home in the desert in las vegas um but we couldn't find none of the nurseries would do it and then one of our designers found plant daddies and it's just such a win and they're so fun to work with and like their curations are incredible and it adds so much to the space i remember because we curated the plants and the art for this home and jess had the idea she's like we should start with trees we should start with trees and get that in there and then see what the space needs because it's such an edit you know and you just want to fill that sculpture and the client is very very simple and didn't doesn't like a ton of styling and we knew the right plants would bring the style element, the sculpture element, the living element, and we bring color into our space.

35:54So yeah, this has been such a great finding. You see how interesting these plants are. And, and then for yourselves, I mean, you know, plants are amazing. I, we, I think you and I both have a pedestal in our homes with a house plant or a small tree on it. And the way it gives back is just so incredible. And how fun is it to like go water it and talk to it and keep it alive or shine leaves on it right yeah like I can't imagine living without a really large plant in smaller plants some in the windowsill I'm addicted I totally get it and this is definitely one of the fresh takes on the 70s I am fully for and all into and then these are a few projects that we've done with just different varieties of house plants that we've used and you can see the personality that they bring to these spaces.

36:41One part, a little tip back to macrame. This is one of our favorite throws that we'll put at the end of a bed. I guess it's considered a blanket. It's our trowel. A little coverlet. Yeah, and it's giving that macrame loose, really loosely woven feeling, natural fibers. And it just looks fantastic. We end up using it in almost every photo shoot. So much. Yeah, it's really great. And I think we can thank the 70s for this too. I think so too. And honestly, these like next few slides are like things that like are easy ways to add the style into your home that kind of like reinforce some of the stuff that we've been teaching you today.

37:16So again, the macrame, that's this organic weave and texture just like add so much to some of these just like because you might not want to reinvest in, you know, new bedding, but just the coverlet can add so much. so okay yeah again here are those little mushroom stools which we dig that again that tiger is just my favorite this is in my son's room and i just love it so much it gets along so beautifully with this rug that we're going to show you in a second too um jess talk to them about phoenix yeah so you can see on your screen if you're watching um just this shot from the 70s they had an entire wall that was mirrored i think that was like i don't know if that came from the 60s and they did 70s my friend so yeah i came from ron burgundy rust mirror installed as a full plane on the wall we sort of took a take on this and we have a phoenix our phoenix mirrors and they're these beautiful sort of ambiguous shapes in a large and a small they're antique mirror that are also rust and they are so chic yeah like a pair of these over your entry console so good um or maybe it's above your sideboard in your living room or in your dining room they reflect light they bounce it around there it's a mirror but it's not so much that somebody needs to sit and like check themselves out or like you know do your hair in it or something it's just more of a mood and it's just like bouncing around the party back in it reflecting vibe reflecting exactly yeah so it does add a color like to a space in a very like i don't know ambiguous way natural yeah it almost feels like the shape of it feels like a skipping stone so again those organic the rocks and things that you found in the 70s it's like you guys put it in a sculpture and it's so cool i also saw this done in a in a man's office which looked really great anyway they look amazing the phoenix mirror set check those out on our website um suz's favorite rug in the collection is it your favorite mine too yeah favorite we've ever done yeah me too i'm like it's so this is our Sussex rug and I have it in my son's room I love this rug there's something that's just like so again vintage about this the repeat of the pattern like it feels like a high-end brand that's just like been plastered all over this rug and I just I love it I love the color a lot of our rugs we can like switch up colors and things I'm like why would I switch this up it's perfect yeah like why would I mess with perfection that's awesome yeah yeah I love I love this rug yes Sussex definitely gives that vintage feel.

39:43I love it. Another one that feels kind of seventies and shagadelic is our Fifi stool. This is sheep, Mongolian sheep, um, skin, right? Yeah. That we've upholstered on a little stool and it has these little animal legs. And this just feels like a little character in a room. Everybody loves it. You want to sit on it. I'm going to put your foot on it. I'm going to put your purse on it. It's just like you want it in the entry, but you also want it in the living room or at the foot of your daughter's twin bed or in the closet. So you can sit down and pull those boots on. This piece is fantastic. It's sculptural.

40:13It's interesting. It's kind of wild. And it's been a bestseller since it launched. It continues to sell out. You should get on and buy it. It'll probably get here in a month or two if it is sold out. We just have it constantly being recarved and remade for all of you guys. And it looks fantastic. Another way to get that shaggy texture in is through our ball pillows. We bring these in from Belgium and they are shearling again and or Denmark yes and um cut and tailored into this beautiful orb shape and they come in a natural shearling or they actually both of them are natural sheep come in both the brown and the off-white so it's cocoa color yeah it does it cocoa is a perfect word to describe it so that's another way that we're bringing in the 70s um through through the products we're selling and the work that we're doing it's not so on the nose it doesn't have to be so hardened or it can if you want to but you want to go there we'll take you yeah but this is kind of our fresh take on it just borrowing elements you know from the 70s and yeah definitely yeah so again takeaways are wood drenching burl wood um color we're so back with color um those notes from the 70s again they're kind of here uh with me i've got all of our velvet pillows but we've got browns and avocados mustard butter animal prints um so a lot of those are fun ways to bring in to bring in these feelings um high texture on your accents like we talked about and then plants so that's our fresh take on the 70s okay i think that's it did we do it drop mic drop yep okay awesome well guys thanks so much for listening please comment review every little bill every little bit helps grow our show and check us out on Instagram.

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