Head to head
Classic Luxe vs Art Deco Glam
Proportioned panelling, cornice and moulding, book-matched stone and warm gilt detail on ivory. Against that: Fluting, fans and geometry. Lacquered colour, brass inlay lines and mirror used as architecture. Eight rooms, both styles, side by side.
Photo: Foto Miki Digital · PDM 1.0Room by room
Where these two diverge
Same brief, same room, two answers. Layout, core material and the one move that defines each.
Modular Kitchen
Photo: Jeremy Levine Design · BY 2.0- Layout
- Peninsula
- Core material
- BWP ply with moulded panel
- Shutter finish
- Hand-painted PU with beading
What changes: Beaded shaker shutters with a moulded plinth.
Photo: Jeremy Levine Design · BY 2.0- Layout
- Straight-Line
- Core material
- BWP ply with lacquer core
- Shutter finish
- Fluted lacquer with brass reveal
What changes: Fluted emerald lacquer shutters with brass inlay lines.
Wardrobe
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- Mirror-front hinged
- Core material
- BWP ply with moulded fronts
- Shutter finish
- Ivory PU with gold beading
What changes: Moulded shaker fronts with a gilt bead.
Photo: andrechinn · BY 2.0- Layout
- Open dresser with fluting
- Core material
- BWP ply with lacquer front
- Shutter finish
- Emerald lacquer, fluted
What changes: Vertical fluting in lacquer with brass inlay between panels.
Bathroom
Photo: andrechinn · BY 2.0- Layout
- Tub and shower suite
- Floor
- Marble-look porcelain, book-matched
- Wall
- Statuario-look slab with gold vein
What changes: Book-matched stone behind a freestanding tub.
Photo: Tracy Hunter · BY 2.0- Layout
- Powder room
- Floor
- Emerald and ivory chequer
- Wall
- Fluted ivory tile with brass trim
What changes: Chequerboard floor set on the diagonal.
Living Room
Photo: Foto Miki Digital · PDM 1.0- Layout
- Formal drawing room
- Seating
- Ivory chesterfield with a gilt console
- Feature wall
- Book-matched marble with panelling
What changes: Book-matched stone behind the seating.
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- Lounge with bar
- Seating
- Emerald velvet curved sofa
- Feature wall
- Fluted lacquer with brass inlay
What changes: A curved emerald sofa as the centrepiece.
Pooja Room
Photo: archer10 (Dennis) · BY-SA 2.0- Layout
- Wall-mounted with marble base
- Body material
- White marble with a moulded base
- Backdrop
- Book-matched marble with gold inlay
What changes: A marble base with gold-inlay detailing.
Photo: mckaysavage · BY 2.0- Layout
- Jaali-screened alcove
- Body material
- Lacquer with brass jaali
- Backdrop
- Emerald lacquer with a brass sunburst
What changes: A brass jaali screen with a sunburst motif.
Foyer
Photo: seier+seier · BY 2.0- Layout
- Panelled with a console and mirror
- Feature
- Ivory panelling with a gilt mirror
- Console
- Moulded console with a marble top
What changes: A symmetrical console-and-mirror composition.
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- Mirror-and-brass statement
- Feature
- Antique-mirror with brass inlay
- Console
- Fluted lacquer console with brass
What changes: Antique-mirror panels with brass inlay.
False Ceiling
Photo: Tim Evanson · BY-SA 2.0- Layout
- Coffered with cornice
- Board
- Gypsum with a moulded plaster cornice
- Drop
- 400mm coffer depth
What changes: A coffered grid with a moulded cornice.
Photo: Suhail sartaj ahmed shaikh · CC0 1.0- Layout
- Floating island with brass trim
- Board
- Gypsum with brass inlay trim
- Drop
- 300mm island over the seating
What changes: A floating island over the seating with a brass edge trim.
Balcony
Photo: jenny downing · BY 2.0- Layout
- Formal with a stone floor
- Floor
- Stone with a brass drainage strip
- Screen
- Wrought railing with a stone coping
What changes: Stone flooring with a wrought railing.
Photo: kohlmann.sascha · BY-SA 2.0- Layout
- Lounge with a bar counter
- Floor
- Chequer tile in emerald and ivory
- Screen
- Brass-framed fluted glass
What changes: A bar counter in fluted lacquer with a brass top.
At a glance
Layouts compared
| Room | Classic Luxe | Art Deco Glam |
|---|---|---|
| Modular Kitchen | Peninsula | Straight-Line |
| Wardrobe | Mirror-front hinged | Open dresser with fluting |
| Bathroom | Tub and shower suite | Powder room |
| Living Room | Formal drawing room | Lounge with bar |
| Pooja Room | Wall-mounted with marble base | Jaali-screened alcove |
| Foyer | Panelled with a console and mirror | Mirror-and-brass statement |
| False Ceiling | Coffered with cornice | Floating island with brass trim |
| Balcony | Formal with a stone floor | Lounge with a bar counter |
Choosing between them
Classic or Deco?
Both are coherent, considered palettes rather than opposites — the honest way to choose between Classic Luxe and Art Deco Glam is against what is already fixed in the home (flooring, window frames, structural openings) rather than against a mood board.
Questions
Classic vs Deco
Can a home mix Classic Luxe and Art Deco Glam?
Within reason, room to room rather than within one sightline — a classic luxe living room and a art deco glam study, for instance, read as a considered choice rather than an inconsistency, provided the transition happens at a doorway or a material change.
Which is easier to live with day to day?
Classic Luxe generally asks less of daily upkeep; Art Deco Glam rewards more regular attention in exchange for a stronger character. Neither is objectively easier — it depends on how much time the household spends maintaining a finish versus how much impact it wants from it.
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