Pratt and Lambert - Personal Expressions 2008 - (Page 12) feature bringing the outside Seattle homes, with their incredible views and gorgeous natural materials, celebrate their Northwest environment P P Seed Pearl 27-32 (above) and 8-30 (left) Honey Butter erhaps the biggest irony of the Great Northwest is that despite how beautiful its natural surroundings are, for nearly three-quarters of the year, they’re pretty wet. Of course all the rain contributes to an overabundance of greenery, but still, to enjoy the outdoors you have to be well-clad in Gore-Tex. Seattleites combat the gray with stunning interiors that bring nature indoors. “Northwest design draws a lot from our surroundings,” says Kimberly Frank, a senior designer with GGLO, a Seattle-based design firm. “We have a lot of evergreen trees and the Puget Sound. We have four different seasons. So I think we use a lot of nature to inspire and influence our interiors.” In addition, the Northwest look is also based on modern and Asian attle-based Musa Design. “Because Seattle is so close to Asia and shares much of the same climate, that is a big influence,” she says. “There are a lot of artists from Asia here as well. Nowadays the amount of people from Asia in Seattle is increasing by the day, so the Japanese, Chinese and Korean design influ— specifically Japanese — design trends, says Julia Sandetskaya of Se- 12 P R AT TA N D L A M B E R T. C O M
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