6 DESIGN PIECES MAKING HOME MORE INTERESTING
From Japanese art and sculptural lighting to Italian design icons and Murano glass — six luxury interior accessories proving that the best homes are collected, not decorated.
Hello Beauties,
Sometimes the smallest objects tell you the most about a home.
A book left open on a table. An absurdly beautiful coffee maker. A lamp disguised as an oversized pen. The glasses brought out for dinner even when nobody particularly important is coming.
For this Interior Edit, we wanted pieces with personality rather than perfection. TASCHEN, Dolce & Gabbana, Seletti, Smeg, Alessi and Les-Ottomans all make the list — six objects that turn everyday rituals into something considerably better looking.
TASCHEN HIROSHIGE
A great coffee-table book should never feel like something bought simply to fill a coffee table.
TASCHEN’s edition of Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo brings the Japanese master’s extraordinary visual world into the room. The pale blues, graphic compositions and delicate landscape studies make the book as compelling closed on a table as it is opened and explored.
Because books remain one of the easiest ways to make an interior feel personal, intelligent and genuinely collected.
DOLCE & GABBANA MOKA
There are coffee makers. And then there are coffee makers that absolutely refuse to disappear into the kitchen.
Dolce & Gabbana turns the familiar Moka ritual into maximalist Italian design: brilliant red, ornamental pattern and enough visual confidence to make hiding it inside a cupboard almost criminal.
It takes something completely ordinary and gives it the visual presence of a decorative object.
SELETTI × BIC
Exactly the sort of thing Seletti does brilliantly: take an object everybody knows and completely change its scale.
The iconic BIC pen becomes a floor lamp — instantly recognisable, slightly ridiculous and unexpectedly elegant. Against an otherwise restrained room, it becomes less novelty and more visual punctuation.
Because one object with humour can do more for a room than another perfectly tasteful accessory ever will.
SMEG IN BLACK
Not every statement needs colour.
Smeg’s glossy black toaster is all curved lines, chrome detailing and retro restraint. It has enough design identity to live permanently on the countertop without turning the kitchen into a showroom.
Black gives Smeg’s familiar retro silhouette a sharper, more architectural attitude.
ALESSI CACCIA
The opposite of disposable design.
Caccia is beautifully restrained: elongated proportions, polished surfaces and the kind of silhouette that makes a table look considered before the plates have even arrived.
It is a reminder that some of the strongest design objects are also the ones we touch every day.
Timeless tableware earns its place by becoming part of everyday life rather than waiting for a special occasion.
LES-OTTOMANS × BROWNS
These are not glasses designed to vanish into a tablescape.
The Murano-inspired forms, cut-glass effect and flashes of gold bring instant occasion to the table. They work especially well against simple linen and plain ceramics, where their decorative character gets room to breathe.
Because beautiful glassware can turn even an uncomplicated dinner into a proper table.
WHICH LUXURY INTERIOR ACCESSORIES ARE WORTH INVESTING IN?
The most interesting luxury interior accessories are not necessarily the largest pieces in a room. Often, they are the objects used every day.
Designer tableware, sculptural lighting, art books, glassware and beautifully designed kitchen objects can introduce character without requiring an entirely new interior.
Look for pieces with a recognisable design language, materials that age well and enough personality to survive changing trends.
The objective is not to fill a home with designer objects. It is to choose a few that make the objects around them look more considered.
HOW DO YOU MAKE A MODERN LUXURY HOME FEEL COLLECTED?
Stop trying to make everything match.
The rooms that feel most sophisticated usually contain tension: something old beside something new, something serious beside something playful, polished silver next to coloured glass or an art book beneath an unexpected lamp.
A modern luxury interior becomes personal when objects appear to have arrived for different reasons and at different moments.
Buy what you genuinely want to look at. Use the beautiful glasses. Leave the good book on the table. Put the extraordinary coffee maker on the counter.
A home becomes interesting when the things inside it begin telling different stories.
THE TBM TAKE
Perfect rooms are becoming considerably less interesting to us.
Give us the enormous BIC lamp. The unapologetically Dolce & Gabbana coffee maker. Hiroshige beside a black Smeg toaster. Polished Alessi cutlery and Murano glasses on a table that otherwise keeps completely quiet.
That is where luxury becomes personal.
Not when everything coordinates — but when every object feels as though somebody actually chose it.
Which one would make it into your home?
xo
