Geometric style has always been suitable to combination. Additions, superimpositions, patchwork: different shapes which merge in a single pattern and find strength in colours contamination.
Geometric style is like a melody which continuously reveals itself: quiet and slow in displaying lines, stripes, circles and squares, it becomes lively and cheerful when it creates graphic signs and colour nuances that give rhythm to surfaces.
Same as the most beautiful combination, it appears in always different ways, expressing lots of meanings and motives that turn the limits of symmetry into new opportunities. Of interior design, vision, beauty.
Our article is dedicated to geometric decorations and to the opportunities which symmetries, graphic motives and patterns can offer in the field of interior design.
Lines, triangles, circles: graphic motives and patterns of geometric style
Until a few years ago, when speaking of geometric shapes, you referred first of all to floors and tiles that had long been the fortune of this style.
Nowadays, geometric design has also conquered vertical dimension, i.e. walls, fabric and pieces of furniture
Characterised by simple shapes, corners, straight and diagonal lines, this style tends to embellish empty spaces through a few pieces of furniture and through clean, clear lines.
But, how shall we define it? Extraordinarily modern? Absolutely traditional? Neither of them and both of them at the same time.
Versatility is actually the feature of geometric style which is most appreciated in the field of interior design: geometric shapes are able to seamlessly blend with other styles of interior design. The specific use you make of it in the combinations and matches you create will then define the total style.
How to furnish your interior with geometric shapes
How and where is it better to use geometries and patterns to decorate the house?
Here are some recommendations about the way to allow this melody made of triangles, lines, squares, cubes, cylinders to play in your interiors… and if you are conquered by this style, it will be enough to pump up the volume … and to have this harmonic music of symmetries play in your spaces.
Pieces of furniture in geometric style
One of the first aspects to consider when creating a geometric style is the choice of the pieces of furniture. There are some furnishing objects which can surely help you to create a successful, astonishing interior.
A console with staggered tops or a minimalist bookcase for instance: two solutions where the alternation and connection of simple lines sophisticatedly characterise interior design.
Another solution is using hexagonal shelves. When employed in combinations of 2 or 3 pieces, they are perfect to create an elegant, refined wall.
And in case your living room is too schematic? You just need to break its rigour with a small armchair (you can find lots of ideas in this article “Small armchairs for the living room: islands of comfort in the sea of elegance”).
What about the floor? Turn it into a mosaic through the carpets with geometric patterns
Geometric floor = tiles? Not at all! Rhombuses, squares, pentagons, hexagons and other shapes are precious when used in the patterns of the carpets for the living room.
Playing with colours combinations and with different shapes allows the creation of a small mosaic, always different, which will guide every step in the living area with rigour and harmony.
From the chessboard effect in grey tones, always perfect to characterise urban and metropolitan interiors, to carpets which randomly combine triangles in vivid tones to fill the living area with light and colour, or more graphic models with patterns which recall the endless motion of sea waves: carpets are a very elegant, precious solution to bring the geometric style into your house, starting from small, yet very impressive decorations.
Geometric wall decorations
And you cannot speak about interior design in geometric style without considering walls. These are perhaps the spaces where imagination can express itself at best.
The shapes you can “hang” have no limits. From the roundness of minimalist patterns which play with materic effect and chromatic combination, to paintings which mix geometric volumes and turn them into a graphic manifesto.
In all of them, geometry becomes a visual extension of the other furnishing elements in the interior. And one leitmotif applies to all: give way to creativity.
Symmetries in fabrics
Fabrics are the protagonists among the elements of geometric interior design: they enhance pieces of furniture and decorative objects, they give them that touch of refinement which characterises and personalises them.
That’s why we can’t think about giving the interior a “geometric attitude” without using cushions with creative patterns such as zigzagged motives or black and white patchwork.
The creative touch? The tablecloth!
Both when you use it as a tablecloth and when you creatively employ it as a wall decoration, this textile has a lot to give to geometric style: it’s the talent of the form which becomes aesthetic play, geometry which comes to life through colour.
Full-geometry accessories: small decorative objects, big stories
Small, essential, poetic: the accessories in geometric style are necessary in any projects of interior design focused on symmetries.
Abstract motives and different shapes make them vivid and dynamic. Photo frames, pocket emptiers, diffusers: every element fills its own space and harmoniously lives in it with other decorative objects, with which it creates wonderful, spectacular effects.
They are objects to use, but also and above all stories to look at, to be enchanted with.
“Order, symmetry and limit: these are the main instances of beauty”, Aristotle declared in its Metaphysics.
Through L’Oca Nera’s products, you change order into a new form of elegance. You find the harmony of new spaces in symmetries, you turn limits into new horizons of interior design. And you create your own beauty.
