Linen Luxe

Aug 132012
 

Linen is one of the old­est fab­rics in the world and traced back to 8000BC in Switzer­land. It is pro­duced from the Flax plant tra­di­tion­ally from West­ern Europe. The high­est qual­ity Linen comes from Ire­land, Bel­gium and Italy how­ever, now France, Ger­many, Den­mark, Nether­lands, Spain, Britain, India and USA pro­duce linen of equal qual­ity. It is light­weight, breath­able and durable, requir­ing far less main­te­nance than cot­ton and silk. It’s also a great insu­la­tor mak­ing it ideal in kitchens near hot objects or curtains.

To pro­duce linen for uphol­stery pur­poses requires quite a com­plex process which is depen­dent on just the right har­vest­ing con­di­tions. This is also the rea­son why it is often expensive.

Linen is a ‘must have’ clas­sic in any inte­rior. When it’s used indoors for home fur­nish­ings it is one of the most beau­ti­ful, lux­u­ri­ous fab­rics. Ver­sa­tile and unde­mand­ing, Linen can be used just as eas­ily in con­tem­po­rary inte­ri­ors as indus­trial, rus­tic or traditional.

It can add instant integrity to a space — Def­i­nitely worth the price.

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X-base Furniture

Jul 242012
 

X-base fur­ni­ture has been around for decades, and you can find it in many styles from tra­di­tional to coun­try, mid-century to contemporary.

Choos­ing a piece for your home in the X-base style is a smart design choice and a pleas­ing alter­na­tive that brings con­trast to the pedestal or straight leg style found in most fur­ni­ture with legs.

X-base Furniture

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The din­ing room is a fan­tas­tic place for an X base table, espe­cially when the design choice includes break­ing up a set and choos­ing seat­ing of a dif­fer­ent style.

X-base Furniture

 

X-base Furniture

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The end of the bed is the per­fect place a set of uphol­stered X benches which pro­vide the func­tion of a place to toss blan­kets or dec­o­ra­tive pil­lows not used dur­ing hours of slumber.

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The X base desk is a sleek style choice for a sophis­ti­cated home office.

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The Iconic Eames Lounge Chair in eye-catching Interiors

Jun 182012
 

The Iconic Eames Lounge Chair adorns all kinds of spaces. The first chair cre­ated by Amer­i­can design cou­ple Charles and Ray Eames for the lux­ury mar­ket has been in our homes for 56 years. Entan­gled in a story that promises to con­tinue, molded ply­wood and leather were com­bined in what would become an iconic design.

This fruit­ful col­lab­o­ra­tion between the husband/wife team and the Her­man Miller fur­ni­ture com­pany resulted in an inter­na­tion­ally appre­ci­ated lounge chair. It was ini­tially designed as a gift for the couple’s friend Billy Wilder, the direc­tor of “Some Like It Hot” and “Sun­set Blvd“. Years of devel­op­ment led to the release of the iconic Eames Chair in 1956. Since then, it not only inspired other fur­ni­ture items or objects, but has remained a ver­sa­tile piece of fur­ni­ture still being pro­duced for the US by Her­man Miller and for Europe by Vitra.

Iconic Eames Lounge Chair

 

The orig­i­nal chair was made out of five lay­ers of Brazil­ian rose­wood veneer. Over the years some details were changed to adapt to mod­ern tech­nol­ogy. It’s mod­ern ver­sion has seven thin wood veneer lay­ers shaped under heat and pres­sure. Comfy cush­ions have a zip­per on the outer edge, con­nect­ing them to a stiff plas­tic back­ing that allows the veneer to be smooth and unin­ter­rupted by marks of screws or bolts.

We are all famil­iar with the strik­ing impact of an orig­i­nal piece of fur­ni­ture. This impres­sive chair cre­ates a dis­tinct atmos­phere around it, uni­fy­ing the inte­rior design with a clas­sic touch.

Iconic Eames Lounge Chair

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Iconic Eames Lounge Chair

Iconic Eames Lounge Chair

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The iconic Bertoia chair

May 312012
 

“If you look at these chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculp­ture. Space passes right through them.” — Harry Bertoia.  Lets have a look at the man behind the iconic Bertoia chair.

Bertoia was an inven­tor of form and an enricher of fur­ni­ture design with his intro­duc­tion of a new mate­r­ial: he turned indus­trial wire rods into a design icon. Bertoia taught metal crafts at Cran­brook and was edu­cated at Detroit Tech­ni­cal High School, the Detroit School of Arts and Crafts and Cran­brook Acad­emy of Art in Bloom­field Hills, Michi­gan. He worked with Charles Eames to develop his sig­na­ture molded ply­wood chairs. Eero Saari­nen com­mis­sioned him to design a metal sculp­tured screen for the Gen­eral Motors Tech­ni­cal Cen­ter in Detroit.

He struck designer gold with his intro­duc­tion of indus­trial wire mesh in his col­lec­tion for Knoll Inter­na­tional in 1952. So much so, his com­mis­sions allowed him to devote him­self fully to his first love: sculp­ture. He even­tu­ally went on to explore how metal can affect and pro­duce sound, cre­at­ing “sound­ing sculp­tures” like large wind chimes. Bertoia received awards from the Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Archi­tects in 1973 and the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Let­ters in 1975.  Even today, we are still using his inno­v­a­tive forms in so many types of rooms. Like the Plat­ner and Saari­nen col­lec­tions, these iconic pieces can stand alone or be paired with just about any fur­ni­ture style, cre­at­ing an instantly eclec­tic space.

Iconic Bertoia chair

Iconic Bertoia chair

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Iconic Bertoia chair

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Iconic Bertoia chair

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Iconic Bertoia chair

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Mid-century modern classic — The Cherner Chair

Apr 252012
 

Nor­man Cherner was a pio­neer both in molded ply­wood and pre­fab hous­ing.  He stud­ied and taught at the Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity Fine Arts Depart­ment and was an instruc­tor at the Museum of Mod­ern Art in New York from 1947 to 1949. Here he explored the Bauhaus move­ment, embark­ing on a life­time explo­ration of mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary design, from fur­ni­ture, shelv­ing, glass­ware, light­ing and even toys to his pio­neer­ing work in low-cost pre­fab­ri­cated housing.

Cherner is best known for the molded ply­wood seat­ing line he cre­ated for Ply­craft, a man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pany in Lawrence, Mass­a­chu­setts. After telling Cherner that his design for what is now known as the Cherner Chair (1958) had been scrapped, Plycraft’s owner con­tin­ued to pro­duce it, claim­ing him­self as the designer. Soon after, the chair’s pop­u­lar­ity was height­ened when it appeared in Nor­man Rockwell’s 1961 paint­ing “The Artist at Work” on the cover of the Sat­ur­day Evening Post. Cherner sued the com­pany, and Ply­craft agreed to pay Cherner roy­al­ties, yet the whole seat­ing line was out of pro­duc­tion by the early 1970s.

For almost 20 years, Cherner’s seat­ing was rarely seen out­side of gal­leries, muse­ums and the liv­ing rooms of few lucky col­lec­tors. In 1999, Cherner’s sons Ben­jamin and Thomas formed the Cherner Chair Com­pany to revive the designs and pro­duce them as their father orig­i­nally intended.

Used as a state­ment piece, or in a group­ing, it is beau­ti­ful in any setting!

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