Visitors to the January 2014 edition of the Maison et Objet fair in Paris may remember the underwater vehicle parked around the Andrew Martin spaces to complement the Beatles-esque yellow submarine theme (View this photo). The British design house known for its fabrics, wallpapers, furniture and home accessories is indeed well known for combining influences, colours, fabrics, and objects from all corners of the world and bringing them together in a cohesive way.
Andrew Martin was co-founded in 1978 in London by Martin Waller, who made a name for himself in the interior design world, working in the '80s on the sets for the James Bond films A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights.
As the decades passed, Waller injected his passion for travelling around the globe in his ideas for interior designs. His transnational taste resulted in the Fusion Interior philosophy, that blends ideas and flavours from all over the world, celebrating difference and vitality.
In 1996 Waller founded "Andrew Martin Interior Designer of the Year Award" dubbed by The Sunday Times "The Oscars for the interior design world".
Each year the very best work from the entrants selected from across the world is published in the "Interior Design Review" book and this "Bible of the Design World" has now reached the eighteenth edition.
Volume 18 (published by teNeues) features over 1000 colour photographs of concepts for private and public spaces designed by the most innovative interior designers worldwide (among the others Kelly Hoppen, UK; Thomas Pheasant, USA; Michael Reeves, UK; Stephen Falcke, South Africa; Jean de Meulder, Belgium; Rabih Hage, Lebanon, and the One Plus Partnership, Hong Kong), individually presented.
The volume is a source of design inspiration, presenting a combination of interior designs from various cultures and a wide range of styles. Playful moods are juxtaposed to sensual atmospheres and elegantly polished interiors; personality pervades form and function to create an emotional as well as an aesthetic response, and eye-catching geometric patterns provide optical stimuli. While this is a useful volume for professional interior decorators and design fans, it is also highly recommended to all the creative minds in search of visual enlightenment.
Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Volume 18 is out now on teNeues; Andrew Martin will be at the London Design Week, 22nd - 24th September 2014.
Image credits for this post
1. Book cover
2. Angelos Angelopoulous, Photo © Vangelis Paterakis @ studio paterakis, Costas Mitropoulos
3. Designers in the City,
Photo © Jessica Lindsay
4. Aleksandra Laska,
Photo © Aleksandra Laska
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