Who is the Best Interior Designer in the World?

Interior design has been around for over a century now and has drastically evolved and changed the way we live and enjoy our homes. Started in the early 1900’s by Elsie de Wolfe, also known as Lady Mendl, the young actress also had an acute sense for her environment and was the first to start interior decorating as a career path. From there, the small business venture boomed into an extraordinary art scene with now highly trained professionals balancing perfect colors, lines, and textures to give each home a certain feel or emotion. Now, design is not a stable career but one that is constantly changing, advancing, and evolving with the times, and only the best interior designers in the world can predict the trends, or even set them themselves.

Interior designers brave enough to go against the grain are the ones blazing the trails and setting the trends, changing the way we enjoy our homes. The world’s top interior designers were chosen for their characteristics they provide through design, style and color, and rewards they have received throughout their careers. There are many incredible interior designers around the world, each specializing in a specific design aesthetic and feel. While ‘the best’ interior designer will come down to personal preferences, there is one designer that stands out amongst the rest.

 

John Barman Inc.

 

 

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So who is the best interior designer in the world? Let me introduce you to John Barman. John Barman is an extremely imaginative, playful interior designer. Born and raised in New York City, John Barman now runs his very successful design firm out of Manhattan and comes with some incredible rewards and an impressive clientele base. Barman has been described as both a modernist and classicist but what makes his work so impressive is not his particular style, but rather the use of bright colors, glamour, and different types of materials in unexpected ways to design rooms that are as elegant as they are bold. With a wide range of clientele comes a versatile and flexible design aesthetic as well. While he uses loud patterns, bright colors, and surprising materials, Barman is also able to design with cool tones and a warm, cozy flow while still bringing in his signature modern and classic influences to play.

John Barman is infamously known for creating spaces for meaningful interactions and breathes life into these focal points of the home. From tearing down walls to create a ceiling to floor, bright yellow sliding door that opens up to a gorgeous beach view on a quiet Miami beach, to dividing rooms with steel framed glass doors, Barman works to create open spaces and comfortable environments through these bold details. In fact, his blend of modern and classic design influences is exactly what has won his firm the recognition and rewards they deserve over the last 15 years.

 

Signature Eclectic Style

 

 

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John Barman has an incredible way with design that makes you feel as though you are stepping into an art exhibit and a cozy home at the same time. His work is not over the top, gaudy luxurious, nor is it a simple minimal design. Barman takes favor to sharp, crisp lines and doesn’t hold back from strong, resonant colors and bold, mixed patterns. In fact, much of his work includes clean walls and floors, with the focal points drawing you in to the living room, or wall mural with bright colors and interesting materials. He creates works of art that play with geometric lines, mixing patterns, and modern-traditional aesthetics. His eclectic design and bold colors have earned him quite the following the last few years, but is also paving the way for new 2021 interior design trends.

For so many years, interior design has been about bright whites, clean neutral linens, and minimal textures and materials. It was a fantastic upgrade from the old, dark, outdated interior designs that stood before, but new trends will soon replace the earth tones and safe neutrals as well. As all white marble kitchens slowly die out of the mainstream interior design trends, we are seeing bright colors, patterns, and classicism slowly start to creep in. Thanks to Barman going against the grain, we are seeing his wild, colorful imagination come into focus as we move into a new era of interior design.

 

Acclaimed Career

 

 

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Throughout his years in interior design, John Barman has earned himself quite the acclaimed career. While most designers rise to the top by sticking to a specific style – ultra sleek minimal spaces or traditional influences – John made his name by doing the exact opposite, resisting the expected. Architectural Digest names Barman as one of the best architects in the world, and has been named as ‘The City’s Best 100 Architects and Designers’ by New York Magazine. His work has been featured in Traditional Homes, Esquire, New York Times, Interior Design, W, and many more renowned publications. With such innovative, inspiring, and imaginative work, it’s no wonder so many are talking about it.

Aside from his many publications throughout the years, Barman also comes with quite the impressive clientele base as well. He has completed interior design projects for George Stephanopoulos and Alexandra Wentworth, Leonard and Allison Stern, Wynton Marsalis, Stone Phillips, Neil Simon, Larry Silverstein, Bryant Gumbel, and many other renowned clients and continues to take private residential design requests today.

 

Final Words

John Barman, with his bold mixed patterns, historical influences, and classical touch, has always been ahead of his time in the interior design industry. But now, we are seeing his incredibly hard work start a new wave of interior design trends that will hopefully leak a lot more color into our lives. In an interview with Architectural Digest, Barman said that the furniture, architecture, or even materials does not define a specific style or aesthetic. Rather, it’s what you do with the tools you’ve been given and the energy you put into your work that creates a true masterpiece. And while you should always have a clear vision of what you want to accomplish, never forget that imagination is what makes it work.