Fresh ideas: how to use marble and concrete in the interior

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Some of the most popular trends in 2018 are marble, concrete and colored stone in the interior.

The fashion for marble can hardly be called new: it holds positions not for a season or two. Concrete does not have a similar aristocratic past, but now it regularly appears in interiors and collections of items for the home - be it upholstered furniture or dishes. Both concrete and marble have penetrated even those areas where they were not expected. For example, in perfumery (this fall, Comme des Garcons the Concrete scent was released in a bottle made of concrete and with a corresponding scent), and the watch industry (Hublot adorned the dial with concrete, once again admiring New York). And even in hairdressing - we are talking about "marble stains".

The experts at Houzz, the global home renovation and design platform, have noted the growing interest of their users in marble and concrete and advise on how to integrate these trends into the home environment.

Marble: from furniture to tableware

By adding stone to your home, you will not lose. Another question is how to do it in a new way? Marble has been seen more than once in countertops, cutting boards or wall tiles, but is it so often in the design of mirrors, sofas or beds? The latter version was shown at the London Design Festival 2017 by Aram Gallery, exhibiting the work of Max Frommeld.

His pink and gray marble bed is a way to infuse stone into a bedroom without making it palatial cold and like hundreds of other Pinterest rooms.

Slovenian Lara Bohink, who managed to work with Gucci, Costume Narional and Lanvin, and launched the Lara Bohinc brand in London, performed at the same festival with marble tables present in many conventionally fashionable restaurants and cafes - but played out on an unusual design. British designer Lee Broome makes a familiar striking grandfather clock out of marble, which could be seen at the last Salone del Mobile in Milan. And the Frenchman Matthew Leannor has been recreating the surface of water in his marble sculptures or "liquid" coffee tables for several years.

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If his works bordering on art are not enough for you and you want something more “artistic” - pay attention to the sculptures made of brightly colored boulders by Hugo Rondinone or lay a marble “carpet” by Anglo-Palestinian artist Mona Khatum on the floor.

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Concrete: from chest of drawers to candlesticks

Concrete, like marble, needs to be in an advantageous neighborhood. Roughness and coldness will smooth out pastel colors, rounded lines, white, and also live plants and various fluffy objects. The uneven matt texture of the concrete is accentuated by the polished surfaces.

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If you cannot afford to cover a wall or ceiling in an apartment with concrete, and plumbing made from this material is also not an option, it makes sense to limit yourself to miniature details: they alone are enough to make the interior more relevant. These can be candlesticks or lamps that combine concrete with glass. Hand-blown, like Norwegian designer Magnus Petersen, or brutal, like Canadian David Umemoto.

Bathroom accessories - from toothbrush tumblers to soap dishes - and even bedside tables made up of perforated concrete bricks are also great solutions.

If anything, I have already released a fake Ikea - she has minimalistic dressers with a "concrete effect".

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For those who are ready to go further, it is just right to work with concrete on a large scale: in countertops or wall tiles in the kitchen, "exposing" individual walls and even entire rooms. If a gray concrete bathroom is not what you dreamed of, we have spied on other "total" options.

Max Lamb, for example, shone with an all-colored marble bathroom in the winter of 2015 at Design Miami. Since then, other interesting solutions have appeared in homes around the world. Below is everything to help you get inspired.

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