Living Rooms Show Range of Modernist to Traditional

Dark hues and cool textures help create an urban oasis, especially with the Luis Barragan staircase.

This series of photos reveals a variety of trends in living room interiors and architecture as interpreted by a sampling of young designers.

 Interior architecture, dense textures, and natural colors grant warmth to this contemporary traditional living room.

 Understated decor and a modest size actually serves as homage to this living room’s cosmopolitan context.

 Di Gasperi uses natural materials and lighting to soften the effects of an otherwise sleek and elegant space.

 Rectilinear décor in earthy tones simplifies this living room, while natural sunlight gives the otherwise neutral tones buoyancy.

 Attention to the lighting scheme blend with careful décor and efficient space use in this space.

 A contemporary traditional room benefits from thoroughly deliberated interior architecture, from floor to ceiling, and is accentuated and lightened by natural daylighting.

 Juxtapositional colors grant dimension in this great room plan while airiness abounds to grant levity.

An Art Moderne great room with contrasting color schemes has strong dimension.