The maximalist home is a celebration of 'curated chaos.' a design trend that encourages us to get playful with contrasting patterns and mismatched furniture – while keeping our spaces tasteful.

Take, for example, the Southampton bedroom of Gloria Vanderbilt, a pattern-on-pattern room that, despite being decades old, ...

and it’s hard to imagine a home that hasn’t embraced pattern in a big way. Layering pattern is huge – piling stipes over florals over geometrics and so on – and the results are explosively ...

‘The English country house aesthetic is a constant influence – not in a literal sense, but in its eclectic approach to layering periods, patterns, and collected treasures. There's something ...