by Patrick Knowles | Oct 13, 2020 | Posts
“Art is pattern formed by sensibility.” —Herbert Read, Poet Good design draws a viewer in, but great design keeps a viewer interested, taking in every aspect of the space. One of the best ways to encourage a roaming eye in a room is with repetition of design elements,...
by Patrick Knowles | Sep 28, 2020 | Posts
“Drawing is vision on paper.” —Andrew Loomis The world of technology is bursting with design tools, and yet you will often see architects and designers picking up paper and pencil before anything else. Why is that? When a client contacts Patrick Knowles Designs and...
by Patrick Knowles | Sep 17, 2020 | Posts
“Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.” —UNKNOWN Revive, Living Room, Before & After In its most stripped-down definition, minimalism is about getting rid of any excessive and unnecessary components and features in a room, bringing in only the most...
by Patrick Knowles | Aug 26, 2020 | Posts
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.” —THOMAS HARDY Ribbon Cut Mahogany in a boxed-pattern sketch face. Writer Thomas Hardy had it correct, every species of tree has its voice, and every species of wood has...
by Patrick Knowles | Aug 10, 2020 | Posts
“Yatch design is a dream made visual.” —p. knowles A dream is only a wish, a desire, a thought – until you turn it into something tangible. The moment when pencil and paper meet and a sketch is laid out, a dream becomes possible. When that sketch is turned into...
by Patrick Knowles | Jul 27, 2020 | Posts
There is little in life that is not affected by the passage of time, and even the most divine spaces are not immune. Though we design always with the intention of creating something that is classic and timeless, a refined space that never goes out of style,...
