Inviting the Indoors In with Crate and Barrel’s Spring Summer Collection 2017
Global lifestyle brand Crate & Barrel is open for living, indoors and out, as it launches its Spring/Summer 2017 collection.
“The biggest trend in interior design and décor for 2017 is about inviting the outdoors in,” says Crate & Barrel US VP for Merchandising Raymond Arenson. “This is the time of year to expand living spaces by flinging open the doors and furnishing outdoor space with indoor comfort.”
“These modern outdoor living rooms break down the barrier between indoor and outdoor living – seeing the outside as not separate from the home but as an extension of it. We are calling this trend Open for Living,” he adds.
With this, Crate & Barrel’s style of the season focuses on The Great Room, where one can experience relaxed modern living and entertaining, indoors and out. There’s a carefree lakeside mindset as The Great Room story continues with focus on the kitchen side.
The Inspired Kitchen go beyond the everyday foundations, now setting the home’s décor and style statement with color and new furniture-level dining islands that create social flow in the living side of Great Room – whose doors now open to a Modern Outdoor Living Room. Living and entertaining, indoors and out becomes all fluid and seamless.
Colors, on the other hand celebrate this indoor/outdoor breakthrough. Navy’s Making Waves as the Blue theme evolves from Fall 2016, to navy in combo with crisp bright White from Outdoor collections to entertaining tabletop.
Likewise, it’s anything but neutral as this new trend for Spring 2017 plays up texture, scale, and sculptural profiles. An evolution of Fall 2016’s White Wood Warm installation, this palette is anything but neutral, making a dramatic statement on its own or living comfortably with the blues.
The Inspired Kitchen is an opportunity to start the year off with a fresh color pop, showing the savvy stylist how to re-think and re-energize the everyday aqua and cream, blue and white, copper and marble, black and white, mint, pistachio – even white becomes a newer color with fresh texture.
Harborside Slipcovered Sofa
Casually attired for the cottage, the Harborside Slipcovered Apartment Sofa is designed for taking life easy. Deep plump cushions, petite understated rolled arms and a carefree machine-washable slipcover on a smaller scale frame bring a relaxed air to family rooms and sunrooms. Generous seats and high back cushions invite guests to sink in for a long leisurely stay. Harborside Slipcovered 2-Seat Apartment Sofa is a Crate and Barrel exclusive.
Spin Glass Hurricane Candle Holder/Vase
Spun glass cylinders with distinctive organic texture create a dramatic candlelight glow or showcase for fresh flowers.
Austin Media Console
Solid walnut zigs and zags as an open, architectural console accented with matte black steel supports and dovetail joinery. As practical as it is sculptural, Austin adds style points as a media center, low bookcase, or floating room divider. The Austin Media Console is a Crate and Barrel exclusive.
Grayson Chair
Our fashionable Grayson barrel chair shows off its curves in free-spirited, multicolored stripes that look as if they’ve been sketched right on.
Monarch Natural Dining Table
Our Monarch 76″ solid wood dining table is handcrafted using centuries-old techniques in a modern way. The Monarch 76″ Solid Walnut Dining Table is a Crate and Barrel exclusive.
Willow Sofa
Willow’s more modern lines relax in cottage style, instantly putting family rooms and casual living rooms in a vacation state of mind.
Apex Dining Table
Exquisite solid American black walnut takes the finest form in the Apex, with its slim reverse-beveled top that balances on a sculptural, crisscrossed tripod of notched and angled beams.
Check out the Crate&Barrel Spring/Summer 2017 Collection in stores now. Inventory of pieces selected to appeal to any taste. For more information, visit www.crateandbarrel.com. Crate & Barrel stores in the Philippines are located at SM Mega Fashion Hall, SM Aura Premier and SM Makati.
Also Read: Crate&Barrel: 50 years of making quality home furnishing
This story first appeared in Primer Magazine English Edition May 2017 Issue
