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Asian Furniture Adds Sophistication
If you're looking for a sleek, exotic look perfectly suited for smaller apartments and living spaces, Oriental-style d furniture is a definite option to consider. Chinese and Japanese offerings have had a great influence on Western furniture and modern design. Bedroom furniture pieces such as the platform bed and futon, as well as stacked chests and trunks are examples of Asian-inspire d furniture that is practical and compact, and at the same time stylish and sophisticated.
Lacquered surfaces are a key attribute of the Chinese furniture style, creating luxuriantly deep finishes that are paradoxically subtle and striking in their elegance. Comprised of ebony, teak and rosewood, Chinese furniture often bears an inlay of semi-precious materials like lapis lazuli, jade and mother-of-pearl. Symmetrical construction, miter joints and copper, brass or pewter brackets are often employed to create a clean profile that enhances a modern, cosmopolitan living space.
Space-saving savvy puts Japanese-inspire d furniture high on the list of city dwellers and dorm room denizens alike. If you love your sleek, streamlined platform bed and couldn't live without your stowaway futon, you owe your admiration to the ingenuity of a culture that traditionally shuns large, overwrought furniture. Other recognizable items that hail from Japan include the stacked Tansu chests and Nagamochi trunks. Like Chinese furnishings, furniture influenced by Japanese design is defined by its joinery, with master artisans taking years to learn the construction of these complex, durable joints. Great pride is taken in the general lack of nails or glue that holds the structure together, and in the joint's shock absorbing properties.
Much contemporary furniture owes its inspiration to ancient Oriental designs. The beauty of a piece was found in its usefulness and construction. Simplicity of design was valued more than ostentatious and gaudy overindulgence. The same can be said for today's modern furniture, especially bedroom furniture, where sleek and simple equals stylish and sophisticated.
Submitted by: James Allen
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Brad Pitt to Design a Luxury Eco-friendly Hotel in Dubai
It seems that when you are a celebrity you know everything, or at least media shows that you know everything and you can do anything easily. For example recently actor Brad Pitt has signed on as the designer of a luxury eco- friendly hotel with Zabeel Properties, that will be built Dubai. The project, which aims to be an “environmentally sustainable” 800-room luxury property, will include Pitt as a designer working with GRAFT. “Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my Beverly Hills: Passion / Leather Bedrooms” said Brad in a statement. Now I know that an architect has to study hard for about 6 or 7 years in college, to be able to create something, and I really hope Brad isn’t the lead architect on this thing. It’ll probably collapse whilst they’re working on it. Finally I think that the company that started this project got Brad Pitt involved in this project for a big boost of publicity and not really for his designer services. What do you think ? Via Telegraph and People.
Angled Corner Picture Frames
Angled Corner Picture Frames are a smart idea, that allows you to display your pictures in a way you never thought before. They have inner frame and outer frame versions, so you now you can use that empty space you never used before. Find them in natural maple or beech black finishes, and choose from inside or outside corner styles through the details website. The design might look cool and innovative, but the price is huge for a picture frame €198,00 and €224,00. - Via - roadsidescholar
8AM Desk Lamp - A wire with a Bulb
8PM desk lamp clamps onto your desk, and it looks like its bulb is magically held up by a wire. There’s a regular braided electric wire leading to the clamp on the desk, but then coming out the other side is an electric wire that looks the same but that’s reinforced just enough to hold up the light bulb at the other end. By touching the aluminum clamp, the user is able to trigger the ever-increasing levels of light output. This simple system consisting of a wire and a clamp, can take on various forms to fill the home, office, or lobby with a pleasant wash of light.
Home Theater Wall System - TROLL
TROLL Wall System combines modern features with more traditional design elements. A sweeping curve of walnut brown or zebra cherry provides the perfect frame for your flat panel display. Harkening back to shaker utilarianism, TROLL modernizes that ethos of simplicity with features including wire management to keep your home theater neat and organized and ventilation to keep your components operating at peak levels.A sweeping curve of Walnut Brown or Zebra Cherry provides the perfect frame for your flat panel display. This wall system is an ideal solution for those people who want modern technology in their homes, but they still preffer that old classy and traditional design. This home theater wall system can be yours for $3,199.00 from here.
Roses Rug for a Beautiful Romantic Atmosphere
The Roses Rug is a simply stunning rug designed by Nani Marquina. This rug is handmade and hand loomed, each individual petal is woven into the base to create a remarkably durable and beautiful piece for any room. I’m pretty sure that this rug can create a beautiful romantic atmosphere if you add a sweet Barry White, a few candles, and a bottle of wine. Nani Marquina is a wonderful female industrial designer who launched her line in 1986, specializing in textiles for the home, and subsequently receiving many accolades and awards. The rose rug comes in red, grey, ivory, orange or brown in sizes Small: 5.5′ x 7.8′ or Large: 6.5′ x 9.8′ (although red is best). This rug is available here. - Via - Haute*Nature
Giant Ceiling Light : Ociu Light
If you always wanted something really cool and unique then the Ociu Light from Zava that has a diameter of 6 feet ( 185 cm ) certainly makes a statement. The suspension is fully realized in opal methacrylate, 8 mm thickness, diameter of 185 cm and a width of 90 cm. OCIU is available in various colors: black and white entirely with internal processing leaf gold or silver.The word “ociu” means “pay attention,” as if you could ignore something this big. Fianlly you have to agree that the Ociu Light from Zava stunning but nevertheless linear and very elegant.
Latest Kitchen Design Ideas from Copenhagen’s Kitchen Showrooms
Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Susan Serra from The kitchendesigner
I LOVED going to Copenhagen’s kitchen showrooms, seeing the latest, and very cool, design ideas. Large patterns on walls, beautiful, and textural wood grains, lots of dark charcoal or black, and white, cabinetry, these are some of the latest Beverly Hills: Trend / Leather Sofa Setss in kitchen design. I also noticed backsplashes with clear or colored glass sections positioned over painted, textured, walls, a very sleek look! Always fabulous lighting and always little splashes of color, a typical, and modern, Scandinavian touch.
Traditional Sofas and Armchairs by Versace Home
Once again Versace Home shows off their classically traditional style here with a few sofas and arm chairs. The collection is diverse and features intricate frames with hand carved details and exquisite fabrics. The Versace Home series is vast and covers not only upholstere d furniture but all types of crystal, porcelain, lamps, fabrics and of course more beautiful furniture. See the entire Versace Home collection here.
Reversible Destiny Lofts for Rent in Tokyo
I always knew that the Japanese have a dose of craziness but I guess that’s what you get when you let NY-based architect-poets and “reversible destiny” philosophers Arakawa & Gins to design your building (if you’re in Japan).
Designed for the young these are the Reversible Destiny Lofts, promoting powerful colors that will tickle your senses and force you to use balance, physical strength and imagination. That if you choose to rent one of these lofts with uneven floors, oddly positioned power switches and outlets, irregularly shaped curtainless windows or if you don’t mind a transparent shower room. It will cost you 220,000 and 250,000 yen ($2,000/$2,400) per month, but it’s Tokyo.
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