16 Sep Featured Inspiration: Functional Luxury with Jeffrey Alan Marks
Jeffrey Alan Marks is a visionary interior, textile and furniture designer best known for starring on Bravo TV’s hit show “Million Dollar Decorators”. Set against his own rigorous standards of comfort and liveability, Marks’ unique eye for combining subdued traditional elegance with contemporary edgy accents has earned him recognition as one of today’s most influential and important designers. In this article we consider the man, the vision and the newest textile designs from America’s favourite golden designer.
Source: JAM
Who
Hollywood Reporter picked Marks as “the town’s most-wanted decorators” for his creative approach to contemporary American design. Though contemporary American design is often overshadowed by French and Italian power houses in many markets, Marks’ take on the best of this elegant, luxuriously comfortable tradition has got us looking a little closer to home. Today, Marks leads his own award-winning design firm, JAM, Inc., based in Santa Monica, focusing on both luxury homes and commercial projects.
What
In partnership with Kravet Inc, Marks has created a collection of luxury fabric prints that express Marks’ love of color and bold patterns. Signature watery blues, palm greens, brilliant yellows and vibrant corals coordinate beautifully through a variety of prints that are accented with embroidery on white, crisp linens and cottons – a collection as cool, relaxed and tailored as the designer himself. Inspired by his Southern California outdoor lifestyle, this Kravet Inc. collection is perfectly coordinated for layering across soft surfaces in the home, from Zen beddings – to inviting seating arraignments that reminisce of California’s loveliest white sand beaches.
Source: Kravet
Standout
The only shelf our designers love more than the ones for their shoes, are their designer inspirations bookshelves! Today, the most recent addition to our collection has got the design floor a buzz: Jeffrey Alan Mark: The Meaning of Home. In glorious large-format photography curated to perfection, a series of beautifully decorated residences are unveiled by every page turn, revealing Marks’s skill at capturing each client’s personality. From a movie star’s London townhouse full of eccentric furnishings, to a charming Nantucket cottage with nautical embellishments – this is an inspirational portfolio of Marks’ most outstanding work. So guess what we are taking to bed tonight…
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