Articles tagged with: Furniture
Posted in Luxury on 24 June 2009
Designed by contemporary artist Arik Levy, the Coffee Fire table is one of the best ways to have conversations going when people arrive. It will keep you and the others warm and cosy while also looking great and chic. It comes from the house of Planika and makes use of their awesome green fuel Fanola.
The fire is enclosed amidst a wall which can be seen and is surrounded by tempered glass that becomes the centre stage of any room. The burning fire, the warm glass, reflecting faces of loved and near ones on the glass, the yellow hues reflected on your friends or lovers’ faces, is something to live for and to be enjoyed.
Posted in Concept, Electronic Products, Furniture on 16 June 2009
Soon carbon fiber, popularly used in making furniture, will be passe for many have not particularly been able to overlook its frail texture. In fact, for them wood has always been a more sturdy and reliable alternative. Now, the facts proved to be of great motivation for the development team at Choate. Well, they have tried to put the goodness of both the materials into a custom carbon fiber TV and table base for te kitchen.
Choate’s technology called ADDON is still pending. We hear that it requires using one layer of carbon fiber sheet over wood. This helps achieve a clean carbon fiber look with the strength of wood.
Posted in Computer, Concept, Designer, Furniture, Home Appliances, Home Decor on 14 June 2009
Frankly, we never really thought of giving time to ourselves to picture the dining table in the future. But not for Petr Kubik. The promising designer has conceptualised a futuristic edge to the mundane furniture unit that sits like a mammoth in most of our homes. The concept table seems to be inspired by the slightly fancy Gorenje’s smart table, but it does come with its own novelties.
Kubik’s dining table is equipped with a whole range of kitchen appliances and intelligent features like refrigerator, mini-dish washer, toaster, microwave and coffee maker to serve all your needs when you dine with your family.
Posted in Display, Drinks, Entertainment, Furniture, Home Decor, Luxury on 9 June 2009
A new furniture unit out in the luxe market has caught our fancy. Called the Howard Miller Ithaca Pub Table, this one is a beauty of a wine and bar furniture. Ty Pennington has designed this table that comes with four full-extension drawers for all sorts of storages from beverages to snacks or your favorite deck. At any point of time, four people can very comfortably use it.
In fact, the Ithaca table also includes a removable sandstone drink coaster to absorb moisture. And the best part is that the table does not come alone. There are plenty of fun accessories accompanying this one like backgammon pieces with dice cups, dice, a betting die and chess and checker pieces in fabric bags. So, you can be quite sure of a fun-filled time with your bunch of pals.
Posted in Display, Furniture, Home Decor on 29 May 2009
Not many of you might have heard of Muller Mobelfabrikation because it is not very well known being rather new on the market. But you can be sure of the products under its name for the folks sure know how to create exclusive and high-quality furniture with steel. If you are shopping with them, you have the option of choosing from some very unique concepts for both your home as well as office.
From their newest collection, we kindah took a liking for he Bar Cabinet mainly because it is so eye-catching! Part of the Classic Line collection, this one is a definite statement standing solely on its exclusive exquisiteness. The shining surface will make your bar look like a million bucks.
Posted in Concept, Furniture, Home Appliances, Home Decor, TV on 27 May 2009
Acerbis is one name forever dedicated to providing novelty to the world of entertainment furniture. So much so that they have many a time intermeshed means of recreation with items of furniture. Take its New Concept collection for instance. Currently on display at Salone Del Mobile 2009 along with the Lyneus Lodovico audio-video cabinet, this one is a great combination of an LCD and a projection screen with a modern furniture type.
The model that took our breath away is the NC Base Superschermo 100 Cabinet. Well as the name suggests, this one is capable of concealing a projection screen right in its belly so that your living room gets transformed into the TV room at the press of a button.
Posted in Art, Chair, Concept, Designer, Furniture on 22 May 2009
Oh, don’t we always wish life was a bed of roses? Now, that might be a little too much to ask for. In that case, how does a chair full of petals sound to you for a consolation? Welcome Tokujin Yoshioka’s ‘Bouquet Chair’. As one would expect anything with flowers to be romantic, this ones too falls in the same category.
A rather sentimental piece of furniture, the bouquet chair has hand-folded Alcantara fabric petals cover the simple egg-shaped shell on top sewn with a lot of care and patience. The slim base of this stool like chair is structured in lacquered steel. The best part about this chair is that even after one has sat in it, the petals resume original shape.
Posted in Entertainment, Furniture on 21 May 2009
Most lovers of pool across the world trust brand Brunswick Billiards when they have to buy a pool table or even game room furniture. Their latest offering goes by the name of Zanzibar table. It is exclusive, part of a limited edition and completely inter-continental in style. So far only 10 of these have been sent in for production.
One look at the table and you can make out the combined influence of European, Indian and African art forms. Plus the foundation of the table is pretty strong being a rich mix of international woods that includes European Mappa burl and rails of American Cherry. But the decoration offered hand-textured brass panels along the aprons and leg pedestals.
Posted in Furniture, Luxury Brands on 20 May 2009
Move over modular kitchens, modular homes and modular furniture. It’s time for a modular, err…shower. Displayed at North America’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2009, also popularly known as ICFF, was Philippe Starck’s modular shower system for Axor.
The modular shower made its official debut at the fair. It’s the most modern of bathroom fittings that have grown to become more and more glamourised over the years. Axor Starck Shower Collection is designer based, easy to fix, and has a building block system to create shower from individual parts, that can be freely combined.
Its overhead Axor Starck ShowerHeaven actually pours water from its 28 square inch fixture in a way, that you feel rain soaking you wet! Read the full story »
Posted in Furniture, Home Decor on 19 May 2009
Want that feel of Las Vegas right in your home? Fendi Casa, the international luxury brand from Italy known for its innovations, has just made that possible for you. It is adding two new innovative pieces to its existing lot of precious products. Inspired by the world of gambling tables straight out of Casinos, Fendi Casa Vegas game table is made with crocodile skin effect.
It has a folding top that you can hide by using a lever. Its inside top has cashmere wool in different colours, or the traditional green. Read the full story »
