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Belgium-based furniture design company Mocaline has presented some modern, minimalist pieces of furniture that can adorn a contemporary home with their charming lines. The concepts are simple, yet provocative – each piece gathers the energy of its bold simplicity and diffuses it throughout the space. One of the seating pieces is available with or without arms – Cubic and Cubic Arm – and comes in a variety of colors.

A round or square side table – Cross 50 – and a criss-crossed frame table – Cross 88 – will be the perfect place to put the morning paper, while the stainless steel low profile coffee table – Cover – will accompany your coffee. An ottoman with a playful contrast between the upper white felt or leather part and the colorful bottom side – Seal – can help you decorate the living room, while the Cubic Stool can successfully be used anywhere in the house like the hallway or the bedroom. Designed by Steven Wittouck, the furniture range is versatile, fun and functional – perfect for a modern home.

Mocaline is a Belgium based company and a new label in the market. Despite of the fact that the company is producing creative designs their concepts are simple and pure. According to Steven Wittouck “Moca philosophy is very simple. No big theory in this company. We want to surprise you by new designs, which are produced with respect for human and his environment. These should have highest quality requirements. If we can delight you with our furniture, if we can enjoy you for longer time, if you don’t regret your purchase after years, then our mission has succeed. So simple is our philosophy.

Plywood has become a material of choice for many modern designers, turning into real masterships of furniture design. Made of 3 or more thin layers or veneers of wood which are glued together the grain of each layer being set at right angles to that of the next in order to give the material greater strength. Light in weight and capable of being bent into elegant, curvilinear forms it has been in use in furniture making since the eighteenth century. Because it was so cheap, durable and easily accessible it became an important medium for experimentation by modernist designers from the 1920′s onwards.

Bent plywood chairs from Emmemobili is another great example of cool furniture that can be created with plywood. The Dogon chairs by designer Ferruccio Laviani are bent from a single flexible sheet of plywood decorated with laser fretworks. A beautiful designmakes the chair looks so wonderful and added convenience are made of padded cushions, which are packed with fabric, leather or velvet. Chair called the Dogon, it is presented in a very small size, so you can find it in the urban compact flat or apartment. This fashionable chair is available in two different heights of the back, so you can choose a higher or lower. Dogon is not only ideal for a living, but for living room space, balcony or even a roof terrace as well. Pair of glass top table and will be perfect.

Working area of Emmemobili is very wide – from planning spaces to solving an almost infinite variety of furnishing problems – for homes or offices. Using innovative solutions and specialization in the area of shaped, multi-layer woods the Emmemobili presents collection, which brings together technology, supreme craftsmanship, top-quality materials, top-quality finishes, and top-quality design. Absolutely unique products, made to be recognized and handed down, manufactured with a view to protecting the environment.

Milan-based designer Emanuele Magini showed this sofa wrapped in a fabric wall for Italian brand Campeggi at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.

If you’re one of those people who is constantly rearranging your apartment, this is the sofa for you. Emanuele Magini’s nutty Sosia sofa is a transformable piece of furniture with more configurations that you can shake a bastone at.

The piece comprises two seats that can be pushed together to form a day bed, separated into two armchairs or wrapped in the extended cover to create a private space within a larger room. The wall can be folded down around the seat backs or zipped up completely. Give one of these to your capricious girlfriend, and you’ll know what kind of mood she’s in the instant you walk in the door.

Two armchairs, one sofa, a sheltered bed but also a proto-living room. Sosia is all those things and even Emanuele Magini was born in Arezzo in 1977. After graduating from Milan Politecnico he worked in several different design and architecture studios as Albera Monti & Associati, and Studio Rotella. He also worked in the field of scenography and set design for Disney Italy and for several Italian independent productions. Prize and selected in many national and international design competitions, in 2009 he won Promosedia International Design Competition. In 2010 he has opened his own Studio in Milan.more. A mutant object, dynamic and snug, ready to fit with different everyday life situations.

Coffee table s always a center of any living room: this is also the place for communication of friends who gathered for a cup of coffee and often exactly there the pictures in the frames stand and family photo-albums lay. Like the pictures keeping the remembering which do not allow past events and emotions disappearing from our life, the conceptual coffee table called Remembrance created by designer Micth Steinmetz looking like the huge photo-album will keep inside itself the most important small things which are dear like the memory.

Table – photo-album Remembrance is something in the middle between practical and original thing, furniture and art-object because it can serve as a decorative element decorating the living room or hall or the full-fledged coffee table which can be served for tea. But besides this Remembrance is also the huge album for pictures and cards and the stand for other things which you want to save for memory but not to show everybody.

Actually, Remembrance does not only look like a book, – it is. Turning over the pages filling with pictures you can re-experience pleasant moments caught on the pictures and entertain the guests. And you can tell only few people about the secret stand hidden under the thick lists of the table-album. It is more interesting…

Not only for the apartment but also for the reception in the office or for lobby in the hotel or for lounge-room in the entertainment place, – the table can serve the wonderful place for advertising pictures, booklets, visit cards and other print production promoting goods and services.

Untraditional book shelves are one of the most creative and interesting elements of décor of modern interior. The designer from France Olivier Dolle offers one more interpretation of “book tree” which can become the expressive dominant in the children or student room, living room or even bedroom.

Simple and stylish bookshelf made of natural oak is acceptable in two variants of design and decoration and is fixed on the wall on the hardware which is invisible for eye.

Under this dynamic “branch” the cozy sofa, ergonomic working place or capacious long chest can be placed. All other things – the background, color gamut and elements of décor which you choose – will form the appropriate exclusive context.

You should agree that so wonderful “shelf-branch” will become the source of inspiration for creative decisions and unexpected ideas. It is quite possible that this element by French designer who always combines traditional craft and contemporary design will become the part of stylish Scandinavian interior, “branch of sakura” on the background of outlines of Fudzi in the minimalist Japanese room, merry platform for books and numerous colorful toys or collection of exotic souvenirs brought from the fascinating trips.

And if you consider the designer of the shelf to be too laconic it is possible to show the creativity and place on the “branch” small fastenings for hanging various small things pleasant to the eye or thematic décor to different festivals.

Today transforming furniture takes the special place in the interior of our home. Its multifunctionality allows modeling the space depending of the concrete situations and also deciding many problems for the organization of everyday life. In the folded condition this furniture is compact and can be used in the most small-sized apartments. But the owner of capacious houses also sympathize them very much.

Combining the advantages of modern designer ideas with hi-tech materials, today furniture transformers do not look much alike their forerunners. Sofas and armchairs with folding mechanisms and possibility of regulating the body position; teenager beds on castors rolling out from the wardrobe for night; computer tables at which it is possible to work sitting and standing.

Transforming tables include all models and kinds of tables which allow regulating even one of three sizes – length, width or height.

By the way of transformations all models of transforming tables can be divided into three groups:

-          with the changing sizes of the table top, the height of legs is constant

-          with the regulating height of stands, the area of top is not changed;

-          with the full transformation of all the construction.

The first group is the most numerous and various. It includes dining tables for kitchens and dining rooms. Second group is mainly coffee tables, serving tables, decorative and other ones. The third group is the transformers as they are: the same model can be the coffee table in the living room and dining table in the kitchen. In the unfolded condition many of them is not inferior to the full-fledged dining table in size.

Corner sofas can be constructively very complicated – consist of several elements. This is very fashionable and modern kind of furniture. The form of such sofa can be various: corner with sides of the same or different length, U-shaped or some other figure – everything depends on your fantasy.

The exclusive models of soft furniture can be equipped with the built-in bar and the corner element of sofa can have no upholstery and correspond the comfortable coffee table.

The producers of soft furniture offer several kinds of basic elements and consequently numerous variants of complete set of corners. Besides that while choosing the corner sofa for your living room specify the corner you want to place it – from that “right” or “left” type of construction depends.

Usually the corner sofa correspond the entire indivisible element. However in some cases its parts can be used independently, as the separate elements of furniture and they can be moved to any place of the room. The mobile models of corner sofas are most interesting and multifunctional and their elements have the castor supports.

Corner sofas can be equipped with the mechanism of transformation: “French folding sofa”, “dolphin” or roll-out. For night this folding sofa turns into big sleeping place.

In the different places of big sofa the armrests and headrest can be situated. The set of corner sofa often includes bright beautiful pillows which give the sofa and the whole living room the neat and cozy look.

The chests are so different today – by their sizes, forms, materials, and prices – that it is not difficult to find the suitable model for any corner of the apartment. As for colors for modern chests the experiments are so active that nothing seems to be extreme. For example the high and narrow will blend easily with not very wide space of the hall. Low and elongate one creates the effective horizontal line in the living room. In the children room the chest will teach to keep order. In the kitchen this element of furniture is indispensible. Even the kitchen set has enough roll-out cases, the small chest will never be unnecessary – moreover it will not take much place.

The materials for modern chests are “the world without borders”. The respectable producers of classic traditionally use expensive sorts of wood: nutwood, maple or cherry tree. In the modern models very different materials are combined: natural leather and stone, glass – sometimes colorful, metals – sometimes valuable. The ways of decoration are usually the know-how of the producers and designers.

The chest is very functional. It is more compact than cupboard and visually blocks up the room less. Its inner volume is used almost completely – owing to roll-out cases. The upper surface of the chest is not empty either: it presents the exhibition of “values” of house. The inside of the chest can also contain for example grating for keeping wine bottles or cases for dishes – everything depends on the desire of consumer.

Living room is a center of house where all family gathers and where one has guests. Therefore the energy of living room determines harmony, success and well-being of all households and should be cozy, affable, dispose to confident and friendly communication.

If you are reserved, serious, a little conservative, you will like the classic style of interior the main features of which are symmetry, correct forms, soft color gamut, elegant strictness of furniture, expensive accessories, good lighting. The advantage of the classic style is that the various elements of modern styles blend with it organically without calling contradictions.

The living room in classic style is the white furniture with gilding or color of natural wood, cozy armchairs, wallpapers, carpets with refined pattern which does not catch your eye or monochromatic. Traditional thick blinds on the windows and light day curtains, for example transparent tulle, will emphasize the stylish harmony of your living room. For lighting the chandeliers of crystal, natural transparent stone or expensive glass and also bronze or gilded chandeliers with shades imitating candles are used.

Interior of living room in classic style will hardly become out of date soon. It will attract its owners with coziness and comfort, nobility and elegancy emphasizing your respectability and high social status.

If you like the impetuous changes of modern world, you are mobile, energetic you can use the tendencies of modern design in furnishing your living room. Among its advantages first ones are comfort and functionality.

Being the expression of modern life hi-tech style supposes using only new materials in design. These are metal, glass, various synthetic materials; in décor the elements of industrial esthetic are used – pipes, armatures, cables.

Furnishing your living room in hi-tech style you can experiment with color, games of light and shade, using various figures – transparent glass, pattern of natural wood, shine of chrome pipes and metal surfaces.

Hi-tech is a brave experiment where however everything stays on its place, just you should enjoy new look of your living room.

Many of us like to come home after difficult working day and fall down into cozy soft armchair in front of the TV-set. So how should the favorite armchair look? It should be comfortable, beautiful, qualitative, expensive? Perhaps, everybody has his own preferences.

All rules regarding furniture has already changed.

The wood furniture is now luxury and rarity but plastic and textile are quite popular now. However many respectful people prefer only classic. High backs, wide armrests and carved legs of armchairs are estimated in high society. Upholstery of armchair is not less important. It is desirable that it is leather, chamois or nubuk. But it is also possible to choose quite practice and qualitative textile variants. Such armchair is possible to place in bedroom, living room, cabinet or fireplace room. In any case it will be not just the simple element of furniture but proud of owner and decoration of the placement.

Though it is possible to decorate your dwelling different ways. In the case if interior of room is light and consistent in minimalism style the big oak armchair will not supplement it. The textile armchair will blend better with such placement.

That also can be modern beanbags, shapeless funny but very comfortable and practical. It is possible to experiment freely with color which will supplement the interior or decorate it with bright colors.

It is convenient when armchair is not only beautiful but also functional. For example, there are very accurate armchairs-beds which allow economizing space and being always ready for coming guests.

There are armchair-massagers, more modern and expensive, equipped with many control buttons which allow its owner to get massage and relax and choose a comfortable position, raise the shelf for legs. Some such armchairs have the built-in bar.

The armchair producers did not forget about children variants of such furniture. Children rooms can be decorated with round soft armchairs looking like a ball or flower. There are also armchairs-pouffes upholstered with soft textile with cartoon heroes. On such armchairs the pockets for children books and small toys are often sewed.

There are very progressive models of armchairs which only ultrafashionable and bold people purchase for their rooms. But such element of furniture will emphasize the personality of apartment owner.

Armchairs will never leave our apartments because it will be very uncomfortable without them. It can change and soon will not look like its forefathers but it will always keep its initial function.