{"id":414140,"date":"2023-11-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=414140"},"modified":"2023-11-24T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:31:41","slug":"how-to-mix-patterns-in-interiors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/how-to-mix-patterns-in-interiors\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Mix Patterns and Prints Like an Interior Design Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"San
Photo by Colin Price<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Generally speaking, pattern mixing is not for the faint of heart. If you\u2019re the monochromatic-and-serene type, it\u2019s probably not for you. But even flamboyant practitioners of the art might catch their breath in maximalist rooms by the San Francisco designer Noz Nozawa<\/a>, whose fearlessness with pattern and color<\/a> would make Liberace blush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the living room of her own home<\/a> \u2014 a modern two-bedroom addition to a Victorian<\/a>-era apartment house in the city\u2019s Hayes Valley neighborhood \u2014 she thought big. She began with black walls. But after living with them for some time, she collaborated with a friend, decorative artist Caroline Lizarraga, to conjure an abstract effect she calls glamoflage. \u201cIt\u2019s as if a giant came into the house and started tearing sheets of paint off the wall to reveal the white,\u201d Nozawa explains. Fundamentally neutral, it nevertheless creates a large-scale graphic statement that she describes as lying somewhere between \u201cthe scale of a traditional wallpaper<\/a> repeat and a mural.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With another artist, Isa Beniston, she channeled the bestiaries depicted in 16th- and 17th-century tapestries<\/a> to create hand-painted curtains of \u201clions and tigers and dragons \u2014 oh my!\u201d A tiger pillow<\/a> from House of Hackney<\/a> invites the wildlife farther into the room, while Pierre Frey<\/a>\u2019s blocky Country pattern, gracing a Louis XVI<\/a>\u2013style berg\u00e8re<\/a>, skews more geometric. There\u2019s also a Balinese fabric<\/a> on a mid-century ottoman and a pillow made of African mud cloth<\/a>. On the floor is the source for the room\u2019s color scheme: an intricately patterned 1930s Afghan tribal rug<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you make it all gel? \u201cYou need a place for the eye to rest,\u201d says Nozawa, who provided two \u2014 the blue stri\u00e9-effect weave on the circa 1870 Louis XIV<\/a>\u2013style settee from Antique Revival<\/a>, as well as the green velvet sofa. But there also need to be commonalities. \u201cI consider the black in the Pierre Frey pattern a neutral, so it\u2019s really basically yellow,\u201d she explains. \u201cAnd the curtains are mostly brown and a peach color. So, they\u2019re all in the same color family.\u201d Another common thread? The bold black lines seen on the curtains, the settee pillow, the mud cloth and even the art<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Sagaponack,
Photo by Francesco Lagnese<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cAny room benefits from a mixture of different scales<\/a> in the fabric patterns,\u201d says Markham Roberts<\/a>, \u201cespecially a room this large with multiple groups of seating<\/a>.\u201d That would be the enormous living room of a holiday home in Sagaponack, New York<\/a>, with three conversation groupings. Colors and patterns vary throughout, but the starting point, says Roberts, was the floral sofa fabric. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe client and I chose the larger, loosely scaled and softly colored Indian floral for the sofa slipcover and the curtains<\/a>, then built the rest of the room around it, pulling the different prints, textures and geometric wovens together and balancing them throughout the room.\u201d He alternated colors from one grouping to another. Picking \u201ccolors of both vibrant and more subdued saturation, which do not match exactly but rather simply relate to one another,” he explains, “prevents it from looking like the Garanimals department.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In front of the sofa<\/a>, the wood-and-resin cube tables from Andrianna Shamaris<\/a> refract and reflect some of the raspberry hue of the nearby loveseat<\/a>. This gets its pattern kick from a bolder, tighter floral on the pillows<\/a>, which sports grays, blues and pinks that don\u2019t quite match the palette of the sofa or the minutely scaled geometric pattern of the slipper chair<\/a>. Even the Chinese patinated-bronze vase turned lamp on the wicker Parsons table (from James Sansum Fine & Decorative Art) subtly, but not completely synchronously, converses with the room\u2019s blues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Candida H\u00f6fer<\/a> photograph on the wall behind the sofa seems to inform the entire scene. The opposite, however, is true. \u201cNo, we did not dye the suzani fabric<\/a> on the center pillow the exact colors of the lavish Capodimonte ballroom room hanging above it,\u201d Roberts quips. \u201cIn fact, the photo was the very last thing found and added to the mix.\u201d Crowning it all is a Paul Ferrante<\/a> chandelier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Sullivan's
Photo by Jeff Herr<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Looking at this 1950s house<\/a> on Sullivan\u2019s Island \u2014 which sits along South Carolina\u2019s Intracoastal Waterway \u2014 you\u2019d never dream it was once \u201cvery bland and very beige,\u201d according to Angie Hranowsky<\/a>, who undertook its redesign. The den, which features an Isamu Noguchi<\/a> Akari<\/a> floor lamp and colors that evoke a more adventurous strain of mid-century modernism<\/a>, hints at the home\u2019s vintage. Yet the space bears no resemblance to its former self. Originally a secondary bedroom suite, it was repurposed as a casual hangout for the client\u2019s family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The color palette \u2014 expressed in a purple sofa, sage walls, teal moldings and a pair of Milo Baughman<\/a> chairs dressed in a green-and-blue stripe \u2014 may seem unusual at first glance. But Hranowsky doesn\u2019t find it all that unconventional<\/a>. \u201cPurple is like a neutral to me at this point,\u201d she says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t faze me anymore.\u201d The chairs’ stripes most obviously relate to the wall color and the subtly striped Raoul fabric used for the curtains. But if you look closely, you\u2019ll notice \u201ca darker, almost mahogany brown\u201d line in the upholstery that ties in to the sofa\u2019s rich purple. \u201cYou\u2019re not matching exactly, but you\u2019re staying in the same color family,\u201d Hranowsky explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diamond patterns of different scales unify the room as well, showing up in the Moroccan rug<\/a>, the sofa pillows and one of the artworks on the wall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou want it to look like it sort of came together gradually,\u201d says Hranowsky, \u201cnot like you pulled it together all at once.\u201d The McGuire burlwood Parsons table<\/a>, for instance, might have appeared in the space around the 1970s and the Ralph Lauren lamp<\/a> atop it in the 1990s. That said, inspired design often results from healthy doses of instinct, experimentation and chance. \u201cI don\u2019t remember what exactly was intentional and what was not,\u201d she admits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Houston-area
Photo by Fran Brennan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Ann Wolf<\/a>\u2019s scheme for the sunroom of her Houston-area home<\/a> began with an Italian tile she found at an antique-tile dealer. When the dealer discovered that the design was no longer made, \u201cwe were left with this one little tile,\u201d Wolf says, \u201cso I decided to paint the pattern on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anchor for the room was a French Napoleon III<\/a> settee (purchased through 1stDibs), which she upholstered in a solid neutral but trimmed with a discreetly embroidered floral on a raspberry ground. Chairs with a similar form got a more graphic ikat, which picked up the trim’s pink and added teal blue. Newer chairs have the pink wrapped around their curvaceous frames but feature toile de Jouy cushions. \u201cYou can always mix an ikat with florals and geometrics,\u201d Wolf says. \u201cAnd toile is easy, because it\u2019s just two colors. As long as one of those colors relates to the other colors in the room, it works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these pinks represent a spectrum of tones, not a monolithic hue. \u201cTry not to obsess too much about matching,\u201d Wolf advises. \u201cYou want something that surprises you. In bohemian<\/a> rooms, there\u2019s always something a little off.\u201d One aspect, however, did require some rethinking. Wolf had initially painted the walls a solid color, which she came to feel wasn\u2019t quite right. \u201cI found the wallpaper last,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThat\u2019s when the room finally started working.\u201d The paper\u2019s wispy, lacy florals created a unifying backdrop for the pattern mix, which also included a medium-scale floral on the curtains and a paisley print on a skirted table. \u201cThe needlepoint pillows were a happy accident,\u201d adds Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The patterns throw into higher relief fine pieces like the 18th-century American gateleg side table<\/a> and the faux-bamboo coffee table, both from 1stDibs, as well as a collection of 19th-century Portuguese majolica<\/a>, some by Jos\u00e9 Alves Cunha<\/a>, an avid follower of the Renaissance<\/a> tradition established by French master Bernard Palissy<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Healdsburg,
Photo by Aubrie Pick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Jeff Schlarb<\/a>\u2019s light renovation of a 1990s home in Healdsburg, California<\/a>, includes a library with several variations on the theme of grids. If you count the grass cloth backing the shelves and the Lauren Hwang upholstery on the 1940s-inspired Coup D\u2019Etat<\/a> armchairs, you arrive at six permutations in total. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Schlarb, there are a couple of secrets to making that many hashtag-like patterns work. First, they have to complement each other in terms of scale. \u201cThe wallcovering, for example, is like a basketball scale, while the houndstooth is the size of a lemon,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equally important is the balance he strikes<\/a> between looser and more formal patterns: \u201cEvery organic pattern nestles up to something more classic.” The hand-painted Porter Teleo<\/a> wallpaper reads as open and casual, which, Schlarb says, \u201cmakes the room look more relaxing.\u201d The paper plays off the window shades\u2019 houndstooth print \u2014 a nod to classic menswear, as are the plaid pillows and the armchairs\u2019 gray wool. The Stark<\/a> rug, an overdyed patchwork, and the Lauren Hwang ikat feel organic in contrast to the traditional plaid of the pillows. \u201cIt\u2019s a constant push and pull,\u201d Schlarb explains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He softened the orderly grids with the curves of the Visual Comfort<\/a> chandelier and Cliff Young table. The custom mantel<\/a> is made of Indiana limestone, an homage to the owner, who hails from the Hoosier State. Since this is his room, \u201cwe elected not to do light, ethereal patterns or florals,\u201d Schlarb says. \u201cThe grids feel more masculine.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Coronado,
Photo by Karyn Millet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Clients are sometimes more willing to be daring with color and pattern in their vacation homes than in their permanent residences. This was the case for a recently renovated circa 1896 house in Coronado, California<\/a>, designed by Taylor Borsari<\/a>. Her clients loved the bright RM COCO fabric inspired by Josef Frank<\/a> that Borsari selected for their daughter\u2019s bedroom. \u201cWe worked the rest of the room from there,\u201d the designer says. \u201cI opted to pull out the turquoise in the fabric as a grounding element for the beds<\/a> to help settle some of the color on the walls.\u201d The Art Deco<\/a>\u2013style metal frames also had a streamlined silhouette that complemented, rather than rivaled, the bold floral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extrapolating a palette from the most graphic element in a room is a common practice when mixing and matching. But how many colors? \u201cIt\u2019s different with each room,\u201d says Borsari, \u201cmore of an organic feel thing for me rather than a hard formula.\u201d The main objective, she says, is achieving \u201cthe right balance for things to feel connected without being overly hectic and too carnival-like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ditto for patterns. Most of the ones she chose were small (as on the blankets<\/a>, linens and yellow-and-red pillows) or textural (as on the window shade). But \u201cthe walls are extremely bold, so they needed something to compete with them,\u201d says Borsari. \u201cThose suzani-like pillows were the perfect players.\u201d One could say the same for the salmon-pink rug<\/a>, with its large-scale pattern reminiscent of French and Spanish wrought-iron work<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final note of whimsy is an elephant-shaped blanc de chine garden stool<\/a>, which echoes the bulbous shapes of the wallpaper\u2019s green pods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Charlotte,
Photo by Chris Edwards<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThis client’s house is bursting with color and pattern,\u201d says Charlotte Lucas<\/a>, referring to a family home<\/a> she designed in Charlotte, North Carolina, \u201cand the breakfast nook is no exception.\u201d Throughout the project, Lucas relied on a tried-and-true trick to make each room simultaneously lively and restful. \u201cWe used a pattern-pairing recipe that has long served us well,\u201d she says, \u201cmixing a number of small-to-medium-scale patterns within the same general color scheme.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aforementioned breakfast nook is predominantly pink and gray, but Lucas is fond of throwing in an element of surprise. In this case, it is the yellow-green back cushions of the banquette, whose medium-scale pattern is vaguely Secession<\/a> in style. Essentially geometric, it conveys the same sense of order as the triangles on the window shade but introduces a fresh, spring-like chartreuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both patterns are inherently modern and clean-lined. In this, they contrast with the wallpaper, a gray foliate design on white ground that functions, Lucas says, as \u201ca bit of stripe in this space, leaving room for us to incorporate additional florals and geometrics. Since it is a neutral colorway, it also allowed for this mix of pattern and color without being overpowering or distracting.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She surrounded the clients\u2019 own oval Eero Saarinen table<\/a> with chairs from Traba<\/a>, found on 1stDibs, and then threw in another surprise. Instead of choosing all pink chairs, she included one in a deep eggplant that, like the chartreuse, subverts expectations. The Apparatus<\/a> light fixture adds another geometric touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Generally speaking, pattern mixing is not for the faint of heart. If you\u2019re the monochromatic-and-serene type, it\u2019s probably not for you. But even flamboyant practitioners of the art might catch their breath in maximalist rooms by the San Francisco designer Noz Nozawa, whose fearlessness with pattern and color would make Liberace blush. 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