peekkaboooo-ladies-top: "White-Space"Inspiration From Interior Design Magazine, November 2009

Recently I've been looking quite a bit at what I'm calling whitespace. It's a term used in several contexts. Essentially to describe the manner in which absence can bind elements together. Often referred to in the arts as negative space.

'White space should not be considered merely blank space. It is an important element of design which enables the objects in it to exist at all. The balance between positive or non white and the use of negative spaces is key to aesthetic composition.'
-Wikipedia

Relative to interior design, I came across this example a year or two ago from an Interior Design Magazine article. The house is in Connecticut. Interiors by Cherie Zucker. In this project, we start with an almost entirely white space. Then color is then injected at points boldly and strong, but in a finite and elemental manner. Every piece of color and form to some degree thus becomes part of a spatial definition, the white space thus is holding these curated pieces together like parts of a Mondrian composition. It is museum like, but soothing. Discreet, and harmonious at once. And it's a very gorgeous and contemporary idea of space I think that can be translated easily into anyone's interior.

Thomas-Michael