Trending - Pink Sofas

Lee Radziwill's Paris apartment

Yesterday I posted an inspiration board that featured a pink sofa. Pink sofas are becoming quite mainstream and quite the decorating trend. I have a Pinterest board here on Pink Sofas. I love it above paired with Scalamandre's Chinoise Exotique.

Do you remember years ago when Domino magazine ran this photo of a living room with a pink daybed? People couldn't stop talking about it.

A pink sofa works in any style living room, but is at its best paired with Chinoiserie. A pink sofa is amazing with blue and white Chinese porcelain and black and gold lacquered Chinoiserie furniture. Use it with black and gold to keep it sophisticated and adult. Zebra is a natural with it.

Here are some wonderful examples -

Ruthie Sommers

Lilly Pulitzer

Michael Carter

Diamond Baratta

Mary McDonald

Lilly Pulitzer

Betsy Burnham

Vintage

Erika Bonnell

Trending - Pink and Gray

From time to time, I love to post on emerging trends I perceive in interior design. These are not the hot trends written up in shelter mags, but looks I start to see repeated in rooms that I feel work especially well with Chinoiserie. Last year I did "Trending" posts on -

*Pineapples
*Malachite
*Purple
*The Big Chinoiserie Lamp
*Antelope
*The White Elephant
*Brushstroke
*Mudcloth
*The Return of the Skirted Table
*Combining Pink and Orange
*Black Windows

My first emerging trend for 2014 is combining pink and gray. I believe that gray is here to stay as an elegant, versatile, and sophisticated neutral. People will be looking for new ways to use gray and I absolutely adore this combination. Here is some inspiration -

Gray with hot pink -

Gray with coral pink -

Gray with pale pink -