Articles by Michelle Ogundehin

Just as turmoil led to Netflix TV show Bridgerton’s exuberant interiors our current global situation will lead to designers embracing Neo Regency style, says Michelle Ogundehin. The second series of Bridgerton, which streams tomorrow, will prompt a major new look for interiors. As I wrote in my trends report for 2022: “This sentimental recolouring of history will prompt

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Sustainability will be the focus of the year ahead, but coronavirus lockdowns will make way for “unbridled frivolity”  in interior design, says Michelle Ogundehin in her trends report for 2022. 2021 was thus not a year for trends. It was a year of uncomfortable truths. At the end of my last trends report, I proposed 2021 as “the

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With its choice of a shade of purple, which it claims is blue, as colour of the year, Pantone has once again failed to use the opportunity to talk meaningfully about how colour reflects moments, says Michelle Ogundehin. It’s time to reconsider the whole colour of the year carnival. The extraordinary hiatus of the last two

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After a turbulent 2020, this year designers should be braver and bolder, says Michelle Ogundehin in her interior design anti-trends report for 2021. I concluded my 2020 Interiors Report with the words, “I still believe that we can be as brilliantly inventive as we have previously been so terribly destructive. However, 2020 is our make-or-break year to prove

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With its pick of two colours of the year for 2021, Pantone has tried to both reflect the depressing past year and predict hope for 2021, says Michelle Ogundehin. The tricky thing with a colour of the year is to determine whether it is intended to be a prediction of what is needed for the year

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The interiors of future houses will be designed to mitigate coronavirus, says Michelle Ogundehin who has outlined 11 ways the pandemic will impact the home. The home played a pivotal role in the recent global crisis. Forced to double as office, school, gym, even restaurant, whether it felt safe or suffocating, it came under forensic examination, and

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