Home as Your Own Creation

By Maarja Pehk

Helsinki is this year’s World Design Capital, the third city to hold the title since the initiative was launched in 2008.

Helsinki’s concept for 2012 – Embedded Design – ties in with the idea of Helsinki being an open city. Organisers say this can be achieved by transparency, curiosity, global responsibility and innovation.

Throughout 2012 some 300 events, exhibitions, projects and initiatives are set take place to help examine ways that design can be embedded into everyday life.

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Going bold in home design is an admirable 2012 resolution for someone accustomed to neutral interiors, but Cece Fourchy is taking on the challenge! Considering her round-up of color saturated rooms, we say shes got a bright future ahead of her.

January is all about resolutions. While everyone else is promising themselves to work out more, eat less and spend less, all I’m thinking about is decorating (are you surprised?). In 2012 I’m resolving to go bold with décor. Don’t get me wrong—I love my neutral boudoir, my creamy sofa, my subdued powder room. But this

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