2007 - The Year of Iconic Design

What is the next design icon?

• Palladian windows have enjoyed a huge success in the last two decades. The windows are the icon that have come to signify "upscale home."
• Audrey Hepburn's Givenchy "little black dress" from Breakfast at Tiffany's recently sold for $807,000. Its iconic value drove the price up 8x over the expectation.
  
• Phillipe Starck's popular "Louis Ghost" chair is a updated version of an iconic design.

An icon is an important and enduring symbol that enjoys universal familiarity within a group. Icons will continue to supply the motifs and styles to our homes. Familiarity in the midst of so many choices (which often becomes clutter) will renew interest in the iconic. The new fascination with simplicty will govern the icons selected. Think: a white strand of pearls, pencil post beds, greek key borders - all exqusitely executed and just like the little black dress, you will never go wrong.