The Quiz · Your archetype
The Modernist
The room, the light, the proportions.
You notice ceiling height, you have opinions about a lamp, and you can tell within four seconds of entering a room whether the light is right. Your home is assembled rather than bought, mostly second hand, and it will be finished at some point around 2041. You are not decorating. You are building something to live inside.
Your signature
- The wardrobe
- Architectural shapes in solid colour, nothing fussy at the neck
- The jewel
- One large piece, geometric, worn alone
- The scent
- Something dry, woody and slightly cold
- The escape
- The Engadin in September, for the light and the buildings
- The ritual
- Rearranging one corner of a room every few weeks
Your tools
Room PaletteColour that suits your lightYour reading list
What The Modernist should read next
Interiors Light
Three Lights, and None of Them on the Ceiling
Lighting does more for a room than furniture and costs a fraction as much. The heights, the temperatures and the one fitting to switch off for good.
Interiors Furnishing
Buy the Sofa New, Buy Everything Else Old
Auction houses sell better furniture for less than a chain store charges for chipboard. Which categories to buy second hand, and the four to buy new.
Interiors Colour
How to Test a Paint Colour
The colour on the card is not the colour on your wall, and the difference is not the manufacturer’s fault. Aspect, light and undertone, and a method that works.
