impressed Interiors: furnishings designs impressed by means of style, structure, art

Sally Falk Nancrede, IndyStar correspondent 1:21 p.m. EDT September 2, 2016

Jean-Louis Deniot BA3135 Agate rectangular eating desk model number BA3135(picture: offered with the aid of Kohler)

loads of furnishings looks plenty alike: brown, boxy, predictable.

That's not true for Baker furniture's new assortment designed with the aid of French architect Jean-Louis Deniot. here is what new and sparkling appear to be. His assortment for Baker is thoughtful modern furniture with imaginative and prescient. And it is in fact French.

A tightly upholstered sofa boasts a crescent-formed again, squared fingers and a bench seat with corners cut on the diagonal. The mahogany base has pairs of legs within the front and single, tapered legs in the returned. The upholstery is equally luxe: champagne or light red velvet, for instance.

Lamps and tables present in a similar fashion numerous design combos. A linear console desk combines rubbed bronze or silver legs with a gloss top. Or rubbed bronze is reduce to resemble the veins of agate and form an unique dice desk or the base of a dramatic eating table.

The forty one-yr-historical Parisian learned to make furniture  in France, however he has a resume of tasks that spans from the Hamptons, N.Y., to Chicago, Aspen, Colo., to Miami beach Fla., Colombia to Monaco, a palace in New Delhi to a Nineteen Thirties penthouse in Milan. He says he attracts his concept from style, architecture and paintings.

And he says he's alive with the unexpected. He wants to shock people. He desires his designs to be livable however unbelievable — so he hangs an image upside down to get your attention. And he likes open house, so a nesting table has poor area beneath.

His furnishings is both artistic and useable. The fingers of sofas and chairs are large so you can sit down on them.

Deniot describes the new assortment for Baker as "French Neoclassical paintings deco md-century California." He also calls it "futuristic-classic." some of his designs have a touch of Paris, others are greater l. a..

"i am a citizen of the realm," he referred to, "and love all cultures and nations i'm exposed to and feel my collection reflects that."

Sally Falk Nancrede is an Indianapolis-based home-decor author. email her at hoosierhabitat@yahoo.com.

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