2025’s Top Interior Design Trends & Styles

0:04We are going to be talking about the different interior design styles. I'm very excited about today. The hot ones in 2025. When I think about maximalism, I'm like, I want to be friends with them. Oh, for sure. You know, like the stories they have. Way more fun. I love it when we get a client that's just like, even when we install them, they're like, we're not done. I'm like, no, we're not. We're just getting started. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Dear Alice. We are going to be talking about the different interior design styles i'm very excited about today ones in uh 2025 the true hollywood story each one behind interior design styles do you want me to tell you something you guys i learned i learned the definition of a style i didn't know what post-modern meant yeah like i knew it was like post-war and whatever i was picturing it being like concrete walls and kind of brutalist and very minimal i'm excited to get into this podcast i learned something and I feel like today everybody's kind of all about personal style.

1:08When I see people getting dressed, different influencers and whatnot, their take on it is so fun and fresh because it's their personal style. And so we hope that some of these terms are going to help you define what your personal style is. And maybe you just didn't know what it was called. Like I didn't really realize what postmodern was. And we have different ways of describing it. So we're going to get in here and we're going to talk about the top 10 styles that are really hot right now in 2025 and give you a term for this as you sort of discuss it and one of these is going to really resonate with you i as we were going through is that i was like this is so you sue or you're probably like two or three of them yeah but say i'm like don't be don't be sad about kind of mixing them because like your style is personal and so you can have influences from this and influences from this and make it your own yes and it's even more interesting i think when we do the mashup and we've bradgelina that you know exactly yeah so let's dive into it sweet okay so the first one is modern rustic farmhouse which is not modern farmhouse yes okay okay so let's get to find this let's go clarify this because when you talk about the top styles of 2025 you're like modern farmhouse ain't it it's not it it made people sad the big hg tv article came out in the New York Times last year saying how sad it made everybody to have white walls and black windows.

2:28This is not that. The modern rustic farmhouse, our good friend Sue Hall over here lives in the modern rustic farmhouse. Not because it's a trend, but because it sincerely resonates with your being and you found this incredible 1970s property with a barn on it, a full acre of land, and you have made it so dope and so you yeah do you want to define style I will I want to say just like the whole farmhouse I think that that is just like call I think you mentioned that like this what was it kind of homesteading you know like that was kind of a big like word and we're all just like we all want to like keep our own bees and like make sourdough bread and have a garden and chickens and like and uh which like I love that idea I love that not everyone can have that but I have that happening all around me so like when this like property became available we're like do I like this is like the most fun and feels like the best thing to have a barn for our boys and to just like and I think it goes along with a really a more relaxed person I think the person that has this style what is more relaxed or wants to be more relaxed because it's just a more casual way of living and I think the surfaces are a little bit more humble and you're okay with like a little bit of a mess not everything is like tight and postured because it's farmhouse living so i think that that also goes along with like the rustic if you like sundance if you like like that mountain living this is also that modern farmhouse was what we all like was just like soft sadness like we're all over it um but it was just like really crisp and optic and like that hard contrast of bright white to you know really really dark and like it was i didn't believe it i didn't I was just going to say not a farmhouse at all.

4:14No, it wasn't a farmhouse. And so I think like this, we're just trying to correct that terminology now and saying rustic farmhouse, which I'm totally all about. And I think it's a really honest way of living. And I'm like, I'm totally into the trend, if you will. But I don't know if we want to like, we have like really great definitions. We can kind of really define this for you. It says, a modern rustic farmhouse design is a style that blends the cozy, welcoming elements of a traditional farmhouse decor with the clean lines and contemporary touches of modern design. Which means basically like we're a farmhouse, but we're living in the 21st century.

4:48So that's what that means. You get this charm of rural living, but then you have a polish of living in the modern day. Yeah, exactly. But yours was built in the 70s, truly rural before Highland was even much of a city. This was some of the first homesteads in the city of Highland. And they moved out there because nobody was there and that's what they wanted, right? Since then, it's become completely enclosed with tons of busy neighborhoods, houses, places to eat, you know, car washes, all of the modern day convenience. So that's the modern side of it. But you still have this honest, rusticated, just really beautiful, natural light, big trees, really mature landscape.

5:26We have irrigation. We have water shares. we have like it's like being off the grid but being close to the freeway in a modern setting yeah and then all of the changes that you're making to it today are modernized by fresh the new plumbing fixtures and tying into the city sewage system we're not on septic anymore yeah yeah she has um you know cows on both sides of her right like little hobby cows yeah and um it's really really charming and a fun way to raise kids and i think it's we don't have sidewalks If you don't have sidewalks, just consider yourself. You're living the modern rustic farmhouse life.

6:02Definitely. That's awesome. They say it honors handcrafted materials, natural textures, and a grounded way of life while keeping the look fresh, clean, and quietly refined. So think of it as warmth meets structure, lived in meets edited. I love that. And we have a few images if you guys are watching this podcast on Spotify or on YouTube. and um these are this is a style that arc digest wants right now all the publications are asking for and it is really honest but still so chic it's very editorial yeah yeah i'm like it's it's the discipline and just the ease of the styling that's so fantastic it has has like soulfulness to it too it's not yeah like the food is going to be farm to table like their eggs are fresh you know yeah the smell is like fresh cut grass yes yeah and you can hear the bees in the trees yes you can hear the bees from the trees and i'll say this um one thing that we've learned we've probably said it here a million times is that glam is out so this really perfect overly polished lifestyle is something that the magazines do not want this is a story that they want to tell right now and oddly enough not oddly but in sync enough with this is these are the things that are really popping up, I think, on these huge Instagram accounts is people making bread and people, you know, I mean, you milking cows, country music has never been hotter, feeding chickens.

7:25I'm going to say, I know. Yeah. So there's a huge, this huge resurgence toward this. And, and of course the way of life goes right along with it. So this trend is called, um, modern rustic farmhouse. Yep. And they forage those branches from the tree outside. Of course. Or they would forage wildflowers yes exactly they would never buy them okay so you do buy them yeah i do yeah but notice i'm like there's not a lot of rugs because again they they probably have boots on and they're probably dragging in some dirt so i'm just saying like a lot of these are just like it's just a little bit like less layered a little bit more humble more honest materials plaids i think all yeah all the stains are just exposed and then okay there's this last one that Again, it's a little bit more about, I wanted to put this in here just because there was one article that I read that I resonate with a lot as far as just like you still are involving just like the, I guess the year and era that the farmhouse was.

8:23You know, whether it was colorful was all in tile, which I resonated with because I'm like, I have a 1970s farmhouse. So when it was time to do my bathroom remodels, I was just like, I'm going to lean into the 1970s. I'm going to go color drenching. And if I could have gotten the plumbing sweet and blue and green, I would have, I'm sure. But just like to really just kind of embrace, again, the honest material all around you, be it wood, be it tile, be it paint, be it whatever, plaster, whatever it is. There's a real honesty about having just like one honored material kind of surrounding you. So I love this picture.

8:54I love, again, the setting's incredible. But again, it's just honest. I know exactly what it is. It's easy. Tell the people that are listening what they're seeing. Jess is so good at that. I'm sorry. I forget sometimes, y 'all. right now we're looking at like this mass this like setting it's I don't know where it's at but like there's fields and rolling and trees and everything and this massive picture window and we just have a simple dining run of dining chairs on a dining table with beautiful greens and the whole thing is some type of TNG that wraps up and around the whole space and it's painted in this like really kind of citron green and I just think it's so beautiful it feels fresh I feel the grass inside so again i think again natural even if it's not a natural material like a wood i use natural colors green tile blue tile like colors that you see when you look out the window pulling that inside i think is part of this whole movement of this rustic farmhouse and like i just love that image so much okay the next one is maximalism maximalism yeah and you can be both you can be a maximalist farmhouse yeah definitely i have to say this when i think about maximalism i'm like i want to be friends with them oh for sure you know like it's like in the stories yes yeah way more fun totally you're like i'm bored i'm going over to her house she's gonna i'm gonna lay on her couch and she's gonna gossip to me and tell me all the stories of of her days back when or and i'm gonna peek inside all the boxes that she has stacks i know she has a cool collection candy She's got cigarettes in one.

10:26She's got stories in another. She has pictures in another. She's got brooches on. She's got wigs. Yeah. She's got high heels and all the things. Like this person is an app. There's not an empty closet. Absolute blast. Yeah. I really, really love this design style. Sue, will you define maximalism for us? I sure will. Maximalism. Maximalist design is a bold and exuberant style that embraces abundance, layering, and vibrant elements. celebrating more is more instead of the minimalist less is more approach. It's characterized by the use of bold colors, clashing patterns, which I love, and a curated collection of unique items to create visually rich and personalized spaces.

11:06Love. I love that. I love clashing and I love curating. What do you think? So good. And the boldness of it. Curated. They're just always collecting. The room's never done. I know, which is really, really fun. I love it when we get a client that's just like, house isn't even like we installed they're like we're not done i'm like no we're not we're just getting started so it can i think maximalism can feel cluttered but what's what yeah what's the key to like it only feels cluttered if you're not a maximalist okay which you are not okay yeah i mean i they call it curated clutter okay like a lot of like magazines and like articles out there yeah and this person's never met a stranger they just like yeah you know what i mean they're talkative they're in your business they're comfortable asking any questions everyone knows yeah everyone knows you want a maximalist at every party you know because they're going to keep the conversation going they're gonna they're gonna be holding court in the corner with a bunch of ladies and telling them stories and you know they're dressed like they're dressed the layers to the nines yeah and the outfit itself could do the talking but they're also they're also doing the work in every way they're doing the most you know yeah i love this i will say when i'm doing my own styling because i have a lot of stuff and i have to like put things in piles away and i'm just trying to analyze that right now i'm like how do i keep it from like feeling too much and like you always have to i'm like looking at this image that's on the screen which is like this beautiful like library living setting um that we're looking at right now three chandeliers incredible colorful rug and they have a lot of different they have like two benches like a bunch of benches around the center table with all these books stacked.

12:44What makes it not feel cluttered is the fact that they organize the space planning to be straights on this one. If everything, if everything is straight, the stacks are straight, like they have everything kind of like gridded and angled. And if those were like at angles where you start doing weird stuff like that, that's when it becomes cacophonous and it's not organized clutter. You have to keep some stuff on the streets, which I find myself doing a lot is like in my book arranging, I keep everything straight. I'm not putting it on an angle. I'm keeping things lined up and layered underneath things so that at least, even though there's a lot, it at least feels organized.

13:17So I think that that's one tip when you are like styling furniture or accessories is just to like, don't worry about like, I'm going to cock it on an angle. Things will land the way they land. And that's like the beautiful thing about maximalism is you're going to get trinkets and you're going to collect and put things here and there, but to have like an organized base layer, organized chaos, that is especially that organized base layer is so important. and then like you can just like have a party on top and keep putting stuff on top. And you're never done. She's never done shopping. The space is never finished.

13:48She's so fun. So fun. Maximalists, if you want to hang out, like we're ready. This last one, Jess, when you first saw this, you're like, this feels very K-Dub. Yeah. When I think of Kelly Wurst, I don't always think of her as a maximalism. And I don't know if this is her own residence or somebody that is a maximalist that she worked for, but there is a fun tension going on between she's got her channels wallpaper on the ceiling. She's got this incredible finished work of dental molding on top of dental molding happening, paneling on the walls. All of the rugs are different. And then she has all different eras of furniture happening.

14:21But she has a lot of pairs, which organizes it. Also, let me just say everything in the room is expensive, which also feels really good in maximalism. Otherwise, it can just - More is more. More expensive on more expensive, please. Yes. That is the maximalism that we love, right? Otherwise, it's a garage sale and it's happening in my basement and let's just call it maximalism. Yeah, exactly. That's a garage sale disguise. Yeah, it's maximalism. Totally. I'm like, I got something that's not good looking happening down there. Maximalism disguises a yard sale. Yeah. Maximalism in yard sale clothing.

14:54I do think what you're saying, Suze, uniforming things, pairs of things, symmetry within maximalism. And then you can go ahead and have those patterns fight top and bottom with each other. And that becomes art and design. Even the organization of, again, these like two blue leather channeled sofas marrying each other, like that strict organization, that repeat, like organizes the eye to absorb everything else around it. Like that's done well. That is done well. High five, Kelly. You know what you're doing. It's really good. We know. It's good. Good. Think about this full time. Hey, guys, this is the dark horse for me on the list.

15:29Postmodern. I said to Suze, let's just skip postmodern because who cares about concrete walls? Absolutely not. And sadness, you know, that's what I thought postmodern was. Guys, postmodern is, I think, the star of the show. Brutalist is dope, too. I just want to say, like, in the whole postmodern. But postmodern, do you want to define it for you, though? I sure do. Postmodern design emerged in the late 1970s and peaked in the 1980s and early 90s as a reaction against the rigid rules and minimalism of modernism. Where modernism favored function, restraint, and rationality, post-modernism embraced expression irony and visual complexity yeah so post-modernism is a really good time and if you're watching um then you're getting to see some of the the fun wacky things going on um so do you want to narrate what they're looking for and i'm going to give them a few okay i think post yeah post-modern is a lot of like sculptural pieces like either like with global influence artist influence abstractions things like that what we're looking at right now is like this really cool living space, which I love what they did on the ceiling too.

16:33They created this like lid with this tray and a pinstripe on the top. I just had to say that out loud because I'm like, it's a really cool like lift on that room. And then the chandelier, like you see the chandelier coming down and I don't know if it's just like this woven or rattan, like all these arms are like stretching out of it. So it feels like it's art. Like all the pieces look like art, which I think is so fantastic. And the profiles are interesting. And again, it's nothing that you would be able to like, create a formula for i don't think post-modern i think it is all in the mix of gathering these different items that feel like art on art on art i love that so good shapes are exaggerated abstracted or whimsical and designers broke the form follows function rule yeah um sometimes form came first but they're really into clashing hues graphic patterns vivid palettes were embraced yes why we like color blocking that is why we like it there also is a material mashup so laminate with marble chrome with lacquer plastic next to wood high meets low glossy meets raw ornamentation was back and surface treatments whether marbled mirrored patterned they were all celebrated so i'm so into it yeah post-modern even like can you go back to that last one cork but even here like with all these things notice the two chairs two main chairs and the sofa are the same yeah so again you have these uniforming things and you're okay seeing repeat but then you have all these like just one-off art pieces just like smattered between them and it's so fantastic the contrast jumping out to me like obviously that chandelier which is like 18 different arms holding light bulbs there's a sculpture in the corner there's a triangle cocktail table you really see the arms of that red chair so you're seeing these shapes that are really standing out even though there's uniformity happening.

18:20Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. It's so fun. It's rule breaking. It's layered. It's expressive. It values attitude over purity and personality over perfection. If modernism was tailored black suit, postmodernism is fashionable, editorial, unexpected, ironic, and unforgettable. Yep. This is like the outfit at the Grammys. They're like, everybody's just like, did you see? Yes, they did. This next picture that we're looking at, again, It's just like, I love this play on stripes that again, none of them match, but you see this like repeated, you know, principle of the stripe on the wall. You see the stripe in the rug and you see that stripe on that sofa.

18:55It is weird how uniforming that is. It is. I'm just like, normally like you put all those and you might feel like cacophonous, but when you get it all together and you just unapologetically like shut the door and you're just like, this is me. It's dope. It's so, so good. And I feel like it is design. Like this does not feel like amateur hour, even though it could really first. you know what I mean it could first I feel like this also um when when we were first pulling all images out and granted none of these are Kelly Wurstler but I feel like this hits the nail on the head for how do you define Kelly's style I would say is post-modern it's breaking all the rules it's having fun it's using unexpected materials together it's really focusing on those shapes and um like the repeated clashing patterns and all of that even the ceiling that like repeated stamp you know you have the repeated globes on the on the light fixture but then you have these color blocking out so you really understand the shapes you guys I just want to say something really fast like you know hopefully you're starting to define your own style as we're talking about these things um I always knew and I think you're the same way where we're not like a ton of pattern like we're more we like more color blocking because I like a lot of I like a lot of items I like a lot of art and stuff so everything in my house yes it's opinionated but like I had like a solid pink rug solid you know just this sculpture over here this sculpture anyway i just recently replaced my pink rug with another pink rug that had a pattern in it and it feels like a mariachi brand is on my floor y 'all like it is it is really cute and my eyeballs are getting used to it but i'm just like i miss my solid pink rug or there's just something about just like having i think this will be great as far as forgiveness for the season that i'm in but you kind of like as you start to like experiment pull things in here like it's it's okay for you to say that's not me this one was more me you know and just like i think that that's a really good exploration as you're trying to figure out who you are because that was just like further validation and like what i knew but then i was like poloing jess i'm just like this is what this looks like right it's not quite it's not quite me i'm like formulaic but i would say i'm like formulaic like it has all the right colors it has like everything that should make it great for somebody else's brain just not mine isn't it cool though that you know your personal style yeah because anybody else could put a pink rug to replace a pink rug and they're like i did it i completed the task but because you're so in tune with your personal style you're like i'm not a pattern because you know where your pattern comes from all your art no i'm like i don't even see my little african chair anymore you don't see the line work.

21:34You don't see the line work anymore. It's like a piece of sculpture. It kind of hijacked your brain. So anyway, it's good to just try and really narrow down what your eyeballs like. Really stare at a lot of images and understand these things so that you can define who you are so that you make a better decision on your next buying a machine. Yeah, trip. Edit things out that aren't feeling like you. Marie Kondo, yeah. It does not bring you joy. Get rid of it. i'll go over to sue's house next it'll be in the basement i told that to with legos all over it's so funny i told tom that that night after we put it down he like just got it all down and i was just like you're gonna hate me i'm just like i don't you're just like yeah i don't like it it's not it's right and he was he was so cool this is like what 20 years of marriage he's just like we can put in the basement and it was just like exactly anyway it's a great rug yeah it is but i should put a picture of that next to the other one oh more post-modern this is the sofa that everybody just loves and covets it's so good that modular line but again just that repeat that's why it was so modular because you could like expand it everywhere and it kind of just becomes backdrop noise still sculptural those of you um listening you know the sofa that kind of looks like um it's almost like a lego brick like a marshmallow it's marshmallow and everybody wants it right now and it has these like cool little um chrome sort of um details on the side that wrap around it and also emphasize the bubbliness of it um this of course is hitting right in that pocket of these shapes it's not form follows function it's you know it's it's just like so fun to look at and you just happen to sit on it so like you want to go sit on it yeah like and have it just wrapping yourself just like the ultimate post-modern um feeling so fun once again same sofa um but this one's in leather and a little bit more cacophonous like and it's this rug feels so 1980s um the lamp also feels so 80s yeah the the unapologetic use of color just a lot of fun so post-modern super expressive very designer it's it's um eclectic in a different way and you can spin it to be more maximalist or more minimalist but you're really focusing on all of these fun playful shapes um sculpture as like you're living in it's with sculpture i think all of us have a little bit of this like yeah this in our soul yeah 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.

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24:59Because your bed should be more than a place to sleep. It should be your happy place. Cozy Earth makes that possible. The next one, Bohemian. Bohemian, you guys, this was part of the SEO search that y 'all are loving Bohemian still. This is Suzanne's favorite. it. Suzanne went through a bohemian era when she was in college. You have to get your wiggles out y 'all. Yes. It's part of learning. It is part of learning. Do you want to tell them what you had in your dorm room? Yeah. Or your first apartment? Well I'll tell you yeah growing up like this was in like even high school like I had a hammock.

25:31Oh it was high school yeah. Yeah I had a hammock I had a bunk bed and I got rid of the top bunk and I put a hammock. Why not? Yeah. I had glow in the dark stars like hung from like strings and nailed into my ceiling i had i burned incense i had a strobe light and i had a beaded curtain you've been everything i've done it all yeah i've done it all i do think of bohemian design or boho this is a free-spirited eclectic interior design approach with that emphasizes personal expression and individuality i do feel like a young emerging suzanne hall just little girls are figuring things out yeah but you see the style and you're like oh oh my gosh, I have to, my mom never lived like this.

26:11This is me, right? You want the opposite of how you were raised. And so all of a sudden you've got vibrant color and pattern and texture, and you've got all these natural materials, often woven things or handmade things, right? You've had all those bracelets on your arm. You're like, now I made a bracelet. I can make a hammock. You know what I mean? It's so crafty. But usually with natural materials, you've got some you've got macrame it's real you got layered and i do think i crocheted something every single girl at some point in their life has been boho don't you think absolutely and she like maybe didn't even comb her hair for a while she's like i'm doing dreads i'm gonna see what happens yeah um it's the summer no one cares i was about to say i'm like i feel very like urban outfitters and ironically i remember like being in santa monica on the promenade and going into urban outfitters in this phase of my life yes so it all tracks iconic it's kind of like i was just like this is me you know when you're like a kid you're just like i belong yeah you know you watch state by the bone you're like that's me yeah whatever it is just like them there i found my fold um we've all every girl has been we've all bought the succulents we've all done it yep definitely and so i can see how that's trending for someone at some point in their life it's part of being I was going to say it's part of girlhood but Corey I don't know did you experience that as a boy did you ever crave um no no you wanted I didn't yeah as a young boy yeah exactly yeah um this is more example of boho um I don't know what we're I mean like a southwesterny like pattern like rug too yeah yeah cactus southwestern woven in tables leather sofa with a hide over the top of it.

27:58You probably have a peacock chair around the corner. Most plants that you've ever experienced. The air in your head is crazy. And you can see the chair hanging from the ceiling. That's the vibe. Some driftwood maybe. It smells like dirt. Yeah, exactly. For incense. From the raw safarian bishop that you bought it from on the promenade. Cleanliness is a huge component. There's for sure a record player and some records and stuff. That's the thing with that. too yeah yeah there might be some like paraphernalia in there yeah yeah you're taking some rips in the morning okay style okay none of us are really employing boho right now but unfortunately respect you young you young ladies that are trying to you're figuring it all out so new traditional is the next one and we were talking about this before we recorded and i was saying like man it feels that's like is tradition transitional to me but just made some good point.

28:57So let's, yeah. Yeah. So I'll define it. New traditional is a modern take on classic design. It's grounded in timeless principles, but updated for how we live today. It respects history without being stuck in it. Think of this as an elegant, but edited with an eye toward balance, proportion, and subtle personality. It's traditional, but with a twist. New traditional is gracious and timeless with just enough modernity to keep it feeling current. You guys know those traditional homes that are so trad that you're pretty sure you lived like that once before and your mom or your grandma did it and especially right now because the 90s are kind of having this resurgence and I get a little itch under my collar when I see them completely interpreted almost the exact same way the palette might be different so I tend toward new traditional I like a fresher take on it I still think you can I still think you can employ some of the old tricks which make it feel historical and expensive and you have i think everything's done in really high taste good taste but if you take a fresher palette then i think it feels more like new traditional instead of the way that our parents did it agreed yeah so it's about honing the past while making space for the new with a fresh lens on the whole thing so let's show them a few images those of you watching um you can tune in for this if not we'll try and describe them so in this room we've got But this is kind of space planning.

30:24You've got the sofa face-off and we have two, I'd call them olive green velvet sofas, doing a face-off with a fireplace at the end of the room, a gilded mirror over top, beautiful gold or brass bowl fixture. I do feel like the cocktail table is a little bit more simple and transitional. Yeah. But then you have that. A little bit more Parsons looking. Yep. And then you have that sort of empire side table that's got a marble top. But then I feel like all the styling is really bright and poppy and happy and almost Kate Spade. Yeah. You know what I mean? Or like Tory Burch lives here. So I think those fresh fashion sort of compliments and colors that you're using can give you that fresh, that new traditional feeling where the old traditional might use Hunter Green.

31:09They might be law books. Yeah. Like a bunch of encyclopedias. And the jewel tones will all be employed and it will feel more serious. yeah they collected art pieces and stuff around have little frames everywhere like yeah so if you're kind of if you like parts about traditional but you love this sort of update with a fresher palette you could tell people your style is new traditional um i think the difference between this and transitional i feel like transitional leads it is blending contemporary yes i feel like it's more edited and i feel like the palette is generally more calm yeah they're not employing all the jewel tones.

31:45It's not as poppy. Yeah. More images. I love this take on the traditional. I do too. We've got a lot of really beautiful stain grade paneling that are happening on the mantle, the walls. I call those like almost gothic windows. Beautiful ceiling with plaster molding on it. And then furniture, we've got multiple rugs, a huge rug grounding the whole space, and then multiple antique rugs loaded on here. But then that modern art really, really sort of slaps it in the face and keeps the room interesting. It's a modern sculpture over this fireplace with all this natural wood paneling on the wall, white plaster up top, steel windows, massive rugs, but all relatively neutral.

32:27The silhouettes, though, are all very traditional. And lots and lots of pattern. We've got tapes on the bottom of the chair skirts. We've got scallops on the end tables. Yeah, so a lot of really expensive things happening here, but the palette feels fresh and the art is really doing a lot for the space, I think. Completely, yeah. Yeah, so the palette, I think the palette makes it feel mostly that new traditional. Let's talk about mid-century. This is a style I find a lot of men are really drawn to in the work that we do. generally he likes some form of contemporary or he like he usually reference mid-century and he usually wants one of those iconic chairs right in his space he has one at his work he wants one at home it really defines his style he feels like he feels at one with mid-century design sue tell them about mid-century okay mid-century design you all are familiar with it and we've done like podcasts on podcasts on it before but we're going to give you a definition mid-century modern is a design style that emerged in the post-World War II era, roughly 1945 to 1969.

33:33It's characterized by simplicity, functionality, and a belief that good design should be accessible to everyone. The look is clean, optimistic, and often organic, celebrating form and innovation without excess. It's a design that quietly says more with less. So again, you had a lot of, as far as just like designers, architects that were creating furniture to go inside these architectural like monuments right mid-century design and so the outside speaks really well with the interior with this type of furniture and you feel a lot of these like cantilevered ceilings that are like the same material outside going inside and vice versa and so it's all a very natural organic thing with a lot of discipline in the furniture i i actually love the older i get the more respect the more respect as far as like when you go down to the roots of mid-century and you experience some spaces like i love it and i think that there's a place of a little bit in every home can you imagine being alive at the time this feels so original yeah for that like you've never experienced it before you know how fun that is it was like how you had never experienced boho before and then you did in that moment i smelled the incense i was just like yes i'm not that than be it take me to your leader i'm all in i love it like imagine experiencing mid-century for the first time it would feel so fresh yeah yeah i think so too this is how um these are some key attributes of of it clean lines geometric forms sleek straight lines with soft curved silhouettes there's no frills ornamentation or excessive detailing just strong purposeful shapes every element's intentional furniture is designed to be lived with not looked at often lightweight and low slung that low slung thing it's a very i think eames sarenin nelson wagner bent plywood wood fiberglass shell chairs tapered legs pedestal bases pieces that feel sculptural but approachable and then the materials they used were wood like walnut teak rosewood and then they used leather glass and metal and materials were often combined in innovative waves like wood and molded plastic or steel so it's things that you just hadn't seen before as furniture and these shapes just were so iconic and are still today and everybody still collects these things or if they're still being programmed they purchase these things at full list and such a break from traditional it's like yeah um i don't know i i like sue said i feel like uh there's pieces of mid-century modern that you everybody could use you know um yeah to me honestly when i see an entire space that's mid-century it feels a little stale to me uh but using elements of it um you know here and there can create great interest, I think.

36:21I agree. You know what we did in Angie Harrington's House of Harrington? Yeah. Yeah. There was a couple of vintage moments in her house that I think shined so beautifully amongst all of her collections. I love that style. I feel like every house needs some of this discipline. And just the clean lines of it all. It feels so good when there's a lot of other things going on. It's that tension between the two. It's so good. Another key component, which I think is really hot right now that we took from mid-century is large windows and indoor plants. And an emphasis on indoor outdoor living that we got that from mid-century.

37:02And now today we see like all the nano walls here would just be a sliding glass door. Right. But today we took that from them where we have the whole wall that opens up and you want that inside and the outside. The views are definitely a part of how you're living and I know everybody today wants bigger windows than ever before and a lot of us are growing plants inside I know I am I feel like it does so much for space you just you're just finishing up a modern home right now in Vegas and the first step we did was let's bring in plants so we learned it from them yeah exactly which is really cool exactly I think you know how we always say like the older you get the more like edited and simple you want things you pair things back I feel a little bit of that right now.

37:41Like even though I just got a pattern drug, I know. You're feeling that because you got the pattern drug. Yeah, exactly. Or just like even because I think I'm like, what do I want this like land to have? Or what do I want this house to look like? Anyway, like I do want like something a little bit more tailored and a little bit more modern, like inventive. And I don't know if it's just like this itch or something as you get older to kind of pull back and like be disciplined and do things on the interior that you would. Anyway, so it is interesting that as you kind of go through your design journey, like what you're drawn to you know and like how you feel in space i think i think these images are really i think it indicates a lot you'll call me you feel calling your new rug in there look at all those solids you also love nature yeah no it makes sense which makes yeah tons of sense organic modern i think this is another one that's high on our list we feel this a lot in utah especially where we live mostly because we have park city the mountains heber city and this is a style that a lot of people with a second home want to employ so um we'll just sue do you want to define organic modern for course yep organic modern is an interior design style that blends the clean lines and minimalist aesthetic of modern design with the warmth and natural elements of organic materials it creates a harmonious balance between contemporary and natural aesthetics often featuring natural materials like wood stone and plants alongside sleek modern furniture yeah definitely so we're we're modern feels like very um like white and cold and chrome and very simple this is bringing in those natural materials like sue said your wood your stone your linen your clay your plaster walls your wool your leather so there's like honest living materials your surfaces are matte and raw rather than polished and you're even seeing like unfinished oak, honed marble, ceramics.

39:30And it's just something that feels really soft, even though it's modern. It's very clean. There's sculptural forms. Like right now, we're showing you a room where you've got a very organic shaped white sectional. It's interesting to look at. And then you've got these beautiful organic tables that are mixing with it, big, huge boucle, chairs, caning. So I think this is the way to do modern if you're doing it today this also feels very california to me yeah and i think this is a really nice a really nice way to live a lot of natural light this space is stunning um windows being a huge thing and then look at all the natural materials in that room the palette's so easy on the eyes the trees are the sculpture out the window yeah like everything else is pretty straight but all organic material curved this one's lovely again big trees they're paneling on the walls here but ceramics are celebrated on top of beautiful pedestals it's more of a texture story than a pattern story yeah like texture and form yep okay deco right deco yeah this is a fun one yeah kind of playing around in deco land right now i think so yeah we have a whole home that's actually art nouveau which like was a predecessor to art deco and anyway but art deco i think was well We'll just read the definition.

40:51Art Deco is a decorative style that flourished in the 20s and 30s, defined by its embrace of glamour, geometry, modernity. Think the Empire State Building, right? Not the Eiffel Tower. Yeah, it symbolized luxury and progress in the post-war era, post-World War I era, an optimistic, bold look that drew from both ancient influences and emerging technologies. it's all about drama, symmetry, polish with a heavy dose of opulence that it is you guys think how fun that would be to be alive just after the war and then have all this progress come out, that whole empire state building is stainless steel isn't that crazy yeah, I mean I feel the same way about Artica that I do about mid-centuries that it's a ton but again they were all in so much respect and the fact that it's so definitive is super cool.

41:48Definitely. What else do we want to say about Art Deco? I think it's just the lines and the geometry. I think we've done a few different podcasts talking about Art Deco. And it is, honestly, you guys, I remember doing a lot of the research, but the Design Through the Decades podcast was really, really fun. It was like a two-segment thing where we went through a lot of these design styles, not these specific ones, but historic design styles and great depth. And it talks a little bit more about like why things were like the reaction to the thing before, which I always find fascinating in a history lesson.

42:23And again, these like straight lines was kind of like a reaction to, again, Art Nouveau, the true craftsman, you know, and like some of those organic movements and just these strict lines and the industrialization of just materials. and that's why you feel such a strictness with Art Deco and the stacking and the steppings. I would say my favorite part about Art Deco is the moodiness of it. And it's just really, I mean, it really is just like a cool vibe. I like it for commercial spaces. I think it would be fun to eat in a restaurant or maybe go into a hotel lobby and stay there. Go and dress up.