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21.9.11
Simple design in the living room
After my last post on Copenhagen Design Week, I've been thinking about how to incorporate some great functional design into my living room.Danish designers have got it so right, and I think the simplicity of such clean design is missing in a lot of living rooms - especially mine right now. Naturally, the living room is where a lot of time spent - so we usually need to incorporate several parts of life into the interior design of one room....
Copenhagen Design Week
At the start of this month the Copenhagen Design Week took place - a whole week of talks and presentation featuring mostly Scandinavian design.As a big fan of Scandinavian furniture design, I was extremely dissapointed that I couldn't go - and geography kept us apart. But luckily some feedback from the events gave me the chance to learn about some great new designers - and I got some great ideas for my living room, which I am currently redorating (when am I not). Here are some of the things I wish I'd managed to get too.Four...
17.5.11
The Search for A New Couch
It may sound easy - but searching for a new sofa is a lot more difficult than it looks.As the focal point of any contemporary living room, a couch needs to tie together comfort, style, usability and durability - as well as being the right size and shape for the room it is going to be placed in.Yes, sofas have a number of standards to meet -and we haven't even discussed the price yet. Many sofa stores run promotions all year round, so great...
14.5.11
Shining a Light on the Effects of Wall Lamps
Shamefully, lighting used to be the last thing most people thought about when decorating their living room.I have to admit I have done it myself - choosing colourschemes, couches and carpets used to seem far more interesting. Matching lampshades and a couple of table lamps could be found after the job was complete.But my eyes are open now -lighting can set the tone for an entire room on its own. Take these wall lights for example. Not...
4.4.11
Chairs and more - furniture you can relax in
When you think about chair design, there's actually a whole lot more to the discipline than simply the aesthetics of it. Think of the classic Eames designs - so much went into them that it's impossible to separate the love of design from the love the actual concept of the chair itself - and what you get is the confluence of the ergonomic, teh aesthetic, the physical, and beyond the physical - the construction of an object that almost disappears...
11.2.11
Living room themes
It's time to think about living room themes.How about the following - this is just to help get ideas, you understand. It's not a command:James BondMexican GothicEdwardianSpace agePsychedelicShakerZenJapan1960s East London NightclubIt would be fun (but a bit time consuming) to post links to items that would help build these themes. So I'll leave it to your imaginasheeyu...
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