During my research I fell in love with a certain book, called Tropical Minimal. This lovely and enlightening book featured minimalist architecture and interior design in tropical locales, mostly in Australia and California. For anyone local and curious visit Kinfolk Studios in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Kinfolk is a cute bar encapsulating this style. In Tropical Minimal, the elements of more traditional minimalism were present in most cases. What drew me to this in particular was the presence of much more plant life than I had seen in most of the more traditional examples. Often the green of the plants was one of few colors present, which really showcased the bold yet organic beauty of plants native to warmer climates (also conveniently the only type of plant I have any chance of keeping alive).
Here are some of the images I pulled, which I will be using for another design project.
This style is pretty awesome, and I thought I had found my dream decorating scheme until I stumbled upon a version I liked even better! I had the pleasure of staying at the Hotel Camino Real in Mexico City on business last spring, and here I fell in love with what is now my dream scheme. My biggest hesitation with attempting to decorate in any minimal style was color... I was unmoved by most of the examples I saw. I have always been excited about color, and adored the warm, bright, exciting color scheme of my South American neighbor's house as a child. Primary colors just seemed to boring, and the mostly neutral color scheme above left me feeling like something was missing. Then, Mexico City happened!
