It is no shock that I consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of modern home decor, for I have been designing rooms since I was seven years old. Modern luxury homes have always been my calling, something about the vastness of the rooms mixed with the simplicity the decor and furniture is so appealing to me. The juxtaposition of the contrast colors (black and white), and sometimes with a inspiration color (the one that just pops out of the room giving it life and more definition), is the best part of an modern home. Sometimes, it does not even have to be a home, an apartment cleaned and furnished properly can have the same effect as some 
of these maginificent homes, especially when it is hidden among the many steel high rises and gives the illusion of a floating room. Some of my favorite "modernists" or architects are: Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Gaudi. Photos are not of these specific modernists, only of some specific styles that I fell in love with. Though some consider modern architecture to be elitist and to be lacking function, I respond that it has quite the opposite. Modern style brings function instead of gaudy adornments, as well as going back to its roots and becoming more simplistic. How could this be considered elitist? These rooms and homes and apartments are a "simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building" as Wikipedia states (and we all know how reliable this source is).
There really is just something about a seemingly empty, yet clean and crisp room that just makes me appreciate it all the more. Growing up with oriental rugs and ornate middle eastern lamps in a lavish Italian Villa home, one would find it odd that I made such a large switch two the exact opposite type of decor and architecture. To me it just depends on the person, I crave order and yet i do thrive in chaos. So for me, a simple and modern home with a few oddities (like a bed with a moat around it
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