Mad About The House was unable to go to Milan this year so it sent Sara Bonfield, interior designer and owner of www.studiobonbon.co.uk and Elina Kopola, owner of Trendworks, who specialises in colour research. After three days milling about Milan, sipping Prosecco and nibbling on canapes, they sent the following report.
One of the trends they spotted was artificially aged pieces. It’s as though we’ve all got too good at redecorating our old bits of furniture – upcycling as it’s now called – and it needs to be duffed up a bit to make it look authentic.
Sara wondered: “Is it because recycled products now look so refined that they need to be aged so you can see they have been recycled? Have we come full circle – we used to paint the old stuff that we found in skips to look new and now we take the new stuff and make it look old.”
You can make your own minds up.
