Archive for the ‘Furniture’ Category

Wedding Fair 2010 in Thailand

March 7, 2010

One more interested wedding Exhibition ‘Wedding Fair 2010′ must be visited. Modern Furniture and other Home Decorative Items including Clothing, Ornament, Leather and Jewelry Fair will be exposing Sep 11, 2010 (Saturday) and last to Sep 19, 2010 (Sunday) in Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand.

Modern Furniture Fair is one of the largest events of its kind in the Thailand furniture industry. The main objects of the exhibition is on exports, especially for establishing the business communication and cooperation between Bangkok furniture enterprises and overseas furniture buyers. This event will be held at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC).

Architects, Interior Designers / Decorators, Wholesalers, Distributors, Manufacturer, Importers, Exporters of Furniture, Retailers, Agents, Representatives & General Public are the target visitors.
Visitor RegistrationEXHIBITOR’S PROFILEProfile for exhibit includes Restaurants, Cafes, Casino Furniture, Furniture for Shops, Hotels, Schools, Offices and banks, Furniture designers, Bedroom Furniture, Lounge Furniture, Dining Furniture, Outdoor Furniture, Occasional Furniture, Furnishings & Fabrics, Lighting & Lamps, Rugs & Floor coverings, Artwork & Framing, Objets d’art.

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Future Furniture

June 5, 2009

The 21-st annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair exhibit include contemporary furniture, seating, lighting, carpet and flooring, wall coverings, textiles, accessories, kitchen and bath, outdoor furniture, and materials for residential and commercial interiors. This event has been taking plase 16-19 May NY CIty.

Look at this
American Gothic Table by Atelier Takagi – Washington DC, USA, I guess it looks very nice:-) I won’t say no to have such table or chair as a part of my home stylish decoration.

“It’s not particularly anything”, says Jonah Takagi when speaking about his table American Gothic. I intuit that he actually means the table is not one particular style, but a fusion of influences instead. In fact here is a product that is the sum of its many parts, which Takagi has merged noticeably well, without conceptual or aesthetic loop holes.

Takagi holds a BFA in Furniture Design (RISD) and, like Searle and Adelman, he mentions the traits of authenticity, honesty and appropriateness when speaking about design process and final products, “the fact I grew up in New England surrounded by a blue blood Yankee, puritanical sensibility has something to do with it – the way I approach the work”. Further add into the mix his Japanese background (Takagi’s father is Japanese), an appreciation of tinker toys and a “nebulous, surreal design process”, and you might be able to imagine how this particular table could be thought up. These influences show themselves in the radial connector designed to join the legs and the black lacquer finish which unifies all of it.

The most fascinating aspect of this table is the sense of tension felt when you look at it. I had cognition of something being unsettled and not quite right, and then I realised that there are 5 legs. This one element is what gives the table its edginess; picturing it with less (4 or 3 even), I realise that if Takagi had not engineered this quirky mutation, it would be just a table with mismatched elements of style.

It would have been easy for Takagi to lose the design of this table to self indulgence and finish with a piece that was stylistically over-cooked and lacking quality of construction; instead the constraint and discipline used in its development has resulted in work that stands with assurance, in the spaces in-between styles.

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Avant-Garde

October 27, 2008

Obviously today everyone has an idea what avant-garde is.
Some of us prefer avant-garde designed wall clocks, some of us furnish rooms with avant-garde designed furniture. Of course, this is well known stream in art and its most outstanding plenipotentiaries are such famous names as Filonov, Kandinski, Malevich, Rodchenko and more. Since the avant-garde was conceived in Russia at the end of the 19th century, the term “avant-garde” have started widely used to define attempts to forge new dimensions to our aesthetic and even political definitions of reality. Now the term ”avant-garde” refers to architects, designers, artists, writers, musicians, whose techniques and ideas are in advance of those generally known or accepted. As regards avant-garde design it has traditionally made up only a small percentage of manufactured goods, yet its influence on the history of design has been enormous.


The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26.

For mach of the 20 century avant-garde designers have remained outside the industrial mainstream owing to the limited appeal of their work and it has taken sometimes many years widely held tastes and attitudes to catch up. Marcel Breuer’s pioneering tubular metal furniture from the late 1920-s and early 1930-s, for instance, was not nearly as widely accepted in its own day as it was in the 1960-s and 1970-s.

The work of avant-garde is frequently given the adjective “New” – New Art, Art Nouveau, New wave – to describe its forward-looking agenda.

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Unique Standard.

March 12, 2008

Using new interpretations of today’s standard materials Folkform, winners of FutureDesignDays Award 2006, are really productive. Their latest collection is called Unique Standard and consists of Marble Cabinet, MDF and Granite Display Case, Bench in three types of leather and Masonite Chest with 18 drawers. Author’s description of the collection is “New interpretations of today’s standard materials”.


Folkform gear-shaped pendant lamps.

The collection as a new perception of various materials shows what can finally happen with the combination of the original material and surfaces that try to imitate its appearance.
None of the objects are yet in serial production.

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