With the real estate market still rocky many homeowners and apartment dwellers are choosing to keep their present abodes. Simply updating your home's style can often be just what the doctor ordered. The decorating trends, both today and the upcoming trend previews are showing luxury decor all the way. While a few years ago casual was the watchword today we are looking at luxurious colors, fabrics, textures and patterns throughout the home.
Color
Neutrals have been the last word in colors for a long time, and for those who like to stay in the comfort zone they are still a safe bet, but the trends call for colors that pop. The colors of choice are spicy. Chili-pepper red is in the lead with rich yellows, sage or moss green, and fiery oranges coming in a close second. Mix and match these colors to your heart's content and you can't go wrong.
Why are we seeing this color trend? Because the trend for patterns are exotic. And these are the perfect colors to complement the exotic patterns we are seeing.
Pattern
Exotic is the word with Tribal, Ikat, and Moroccan patterns (to name a few) being the trend for accents such as throw pillows, throws, bed fashions, chairs, rugs and other luxury home accessories.
Living Room
Decor transforms a room and can take it from plain to fantastic with just a few throw pillows, a throw and a vase or decorative bowl. Ceramic vases, jars, and bowls in exotic colors are the perfect touch for today's exotic fabrics. Old world and Italian influences will always be around and most blend very well with the reds, yellows, greens, and oranges that are the trend.
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Bedroom
What better room to indulge you passion for luxury than the bedroom? Luxurious blankets and throws, high thread count sheets provide the ultimate sleeping experience. Decorative throw pillows provide color, texture, and pattern and comfort when reading or watching television.
Dining Room
The dining room is even the scene for luxury today with beautiful Italian dinnerware made in the Old World traditions. You'll find spicy hues of tomato red, and earthy Chocolate, Eucalyptus and Jade. With today's luxury dinnerware every day is a special occasion. For added luxury mix and match dinnerware with Italian ceramic decorative bowls with fruit or vases with flowers in complimentary colors.
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Behind the scenes at an International Art FairSo what specifically is the problem? Well, from a dealer's perspective there used to be two key markets that he/she would operate in. Retail and wholesale. Traditionally the latter would be auctions, purchases from private clients etc. The former would be all the front of house stuff e.g. a shop or the dealer's client 'wants'. The dealer would carry the investment risk, research the item's authenticity and make it presentable for sale. This was reflected in the retail profit margin which would be anywhere from 20-50%. The client would purchase the item, happily knowing that it came with pedigree and authenticity. After all the dealer's reputation was invested in it. Fair enough. What has happened now, with a general tightening of belts, is that clients are now coming to dealers and saying, 'I saw something like this for sale on the internet last week at a third below your asking price, would you take less'. Yup that's the power of the internet. Never mind all the expenses the dealer has to carry, never mind the years of expertise in their field or the fact that they also take an investment risk by buying an item in - no, the bottom line is that the client has seen a similar 'something' privately advertised at a lower price and why should they pay more? And that is a very fair and convincing point. Why pay more? It's not the dealer's fault or the client's fault. It is human nature. 
I have found that some dealers resent the internet, that somehow it has demystified a trade that should be exclusively their domain. (In some sectors of commerce that is known as a price fixing or a monopoly!). The fact is, where there was once an advantage of knowledge, now there is free access to resources that allow any buyer or seller to make informed choices. I wholeheartedly applaud that, because as dealers we also use the internet to research our items, make discoveries and build value into a piece. So we can't have it both ways really. As more and more of our clients buy online or via auction, this wholesale market has shrunk, and with it, a section of customers who now prefer to buy independently. Traditionally auction houses have published their sales records, which you could obtain by buying the back catalogue of the sale. Nowadays, for a small subscription fee or even for free, you can access worldwide sales records going back thirty years or more. This is great for dealers in one way, but in another, bearing in mind that it is a high turnover business (or should be), anyone can check up on the price of an item, e.g. a picture for sale in a gallery and compare that with what the dealer paid for it in auction a year ago. Herein lies the problem. I'm struggling to think of a business where we have access to the cost price of an item when it is also listed for sale in the retail market. To provide a crude analogy, if you ate in a restaurant and on the menu you could see the actual cost of the ingredients for the meal versus what you were being charged, you may think twice about ordering. The same is true with this paradox. We need market intelligence to inform us as dealers, but in a way that protects the integrity of the business and allows for added value via our professional knowledge and service. So what is the answer? Well I don't have all the solutions by any means, but I believe that the internet will be the major market and driving force in our business in the years to come. We've barely tapped its potential and where we are at now will probably be multiplied seven to ten times over. As this change happens, and we as dealers understand that we need to raise our game and have a significant presence in this new market platform, we'll find that our old client base will start to drift back to us again; simply because they'll feel more comfortable buying from a reputable dealer and especially if they have made a few purchase errors in the past. As professional dealers, we must embrace this market fully, we must contribute to it, we must understand how it works and drill down through all the many complex layers of e-commerce. True, there will be a period when margins are down (we're sitting in that lull right now!) and its not going to be like the old days anymore, but like antiques, age and provenance is the key. Be in business, adapt in business and know your business. I guess we couldn't go too far wrong with that mantra. 
Raf Santana / Owner: The Antiques Auction Room (http://www.antiquesauctionroom.com/ The Antiques Auction Room is an online user driven specialist auction site that will launch in September 2013. FREE listing, FREE photos, FREE storefront, FREE Buyer's premium, JUST 5 - 10% Seller's premium, CONFIDENTIAL Sales Records. Contact me for further information. Palladium Fine Art is a sales and brokerage house that deals in high end antiques and fine art. With low transaction rates and an international client list, we offer a great alternative to traditional routes for buying and selling your items. Rate this ArticleDoes The Internet Damage The Antiques And Art Trade?Not Rated YetRaf Santana has published 4 articles. Article submitted on August 05, 2013. Word count: 1040