Cluttercore: How to embrace the magic of mess or curated chaos

Just as we’re sold on the idea of culling our belongings, a trend develops that encourages us to make a feature of them 

Art and picture-laden walls are a key feature of the cluttercore look. Wonderlust art by Claire Luxton x Wedgwood from www.feathr.com, €85.

The inevitable has occurred: the backlash against declutterer-in-chief Marie Kondo and her calm orderliness, by the hoarders, anti-minimalists and collectors, and maybe even the new-found decluttering evangelists who filled a bin bag with domestic excess but chickened out of taking it to the charity shop.

Less is more does not apply when you make a virtue of displaying your possessions rather than culling them. (Gold Links mirror top console table, €270 from www.audenza.com).