It's been a long while since I've seen a house that is truly minimalist. As an interior design editor, I get submitted projects every day, and talk to designers almost as often. And in the whole of my 20-year career, this is the longest it's been since a totally pared back home crossed my desk, around four years, in fact.
Which leads to me wonder is minimalism out of style? And if so, what interior design style is replacing it? ‘To my delight, it does seem like minimalism is currently dead,’ a gleeful Joa Studholme told me recently. As the Color Curator at Farrow & Ball, she literally sets the backdrop for how we all want to decorate. ‘We’re all yearning for something more maximalist, more grounding,' she added. I decided to find out what other designers thought, and whether minimalism really is as cold as detractors of the aesthetic always believed it to be.
