No one puts designer Celerie Kemble in a corner. Her new collection with Arteriors, which makes its debut at the spring High Point Market, feels at home in a coastal setting or an urban loft. Check out some of her new products and the inspiration behind them below.
Design Leads
“Nothing is more fun than editing a prototype and finding that in actuality it presents a much different attitude or potential purpose than initially intended. Sometimes the object tells you what it wants to be. Initially, our Tinsley bar cart was to have a very sleek, clean mirror and clear glass surface, but it asked to have a more boho vibe once it presented itself. I felt it begging for wild eglomise waves and we went from there.”
More Than Meets the Eye
“Our multi-teared graduated box started screaming ‘use me as a table,’ and so it grew into a storage-capable table rather than a decorative box.”
Soft Glow
“I wanted to use traditional, useful forms to make a lot of light — like a large multi-headed round chandelier — but bring a playful element to it, so we created scalloped brass globe cups that bring an ice-cream-scoop level of sweetness to the Cleo.“
Light it Up
“One of the things that’s hard with lighting is to stay aware and deliberate about the shadows a fixture will create. It is such a missed opportunity to not shape a shade with this considered and to determine that you want a certain light to glow or bounce off a wall. Sometimes you just want to cover the light source from the eye and other times you want a wild pool of light sculpted across the ceiling.”
