Modern Architecture

Modern architecture greatly improved the style and elegance of the modern day home. Also, the creative designs of modern furniture greatly influence the theme of each household, adding its own blend of comfort and beauty befitting of the modern age.

Living Room Showcase

The living room is the center of family bonding. It is a place to relax and enjoy different activities like watching movies, reading books, conversation with friends and family members, or even a perfect place to take an afternoon nap.

Designs of modern furniture for the living room can improve the overall comfort of your living room with its high-end designs and materials. For starters, sectional sofas are now available to replace bulky, heavy sofas that take up large amount of living room space. Sectional sofas have different sections that can be combined or separated depending upon use.

Assorted lounge chair designs are perfect to give your living room a specific mood, and give it a futuristic feel. Start off with a ball chair or a bubble chair in front of the television to make for a great viewing experience. A Barcelona chair beside an open window is a perfect venue to read your favorite book, and the foot rest can provide additional comfort to help you relax. Read more…

Modern Furniture: Timeless classics

Prior to the modernist design movement, functionality to the back seat appeal to the popular ornamental furniture style. The modern movement reintroduced simple efficiency and originality to the home furnishings marketplace, and innovation to home decor.  Modernist design schools like Bauhaus and Werkbund revolutionized home furniture. By investing in the creativity of their artists along with modernist philosophies, the introduction of advanced manufacturing methods and new materials for home furnishings design emerged. Many of the original modern furniture designs are still popular today, like the Eames Chair, the Barcelona Chair, the Wassily Chair and many others.  This article presents the classic modern furniture pieces that are still popular today.

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. However, Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky’s personal quarters. The chair became known as “Wassily” decades later, when it was re-released by an Italian manufacturer named Gavina who had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of its research on the chair’s origins.

This chair was revolutionary in the use of the materials (bent tubular steel and canvas) and methods of manufacturing. It is said that the handlebar of Breuer’s ‘Adler’ bicycle inspired him to use steel tubing to build the chair.

The Wassily chair, like many other designs of the modernist movement, has been mass-produced since the late 1920s, and continuously in production since the 1950s

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The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, correctly titled Eames Lounge and Ottoman, were released in 1956 after years of development by designers Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company. It was the first chair the Eames designed for a high-end market. These furnishings are made of molded plywood and leather. Examples of these furnishings are part of the permanent collection of New York’s Museum Of Modern Art.

The chair is composed of three curved plywood shells. In modern production the shells are made up of seven thin layers of wood veneer glued together and shaped under heat and pressure. This differentiates the newer chairs from the “original” (vintage) chairs which used Brazilian rosewood veneers and were constructed of five layers of plywood. Also differentiating the very earliest sets from newer sets were rubber spacers between the aluminum spines and the wood panels first used in the earliest production models and then hard plastic washers used in later versions. In the earlier sets, the zipper around the cushions may have been brown or black as well, and in newer sets the zippers are black. The shells and the seat cushions are essentially the same shape: composed of two curved forms interlocking to form a solid mass. The chair back and headrest are identical in proportion, as are the seat and the Ottoman.

Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair

Perhaps the most famous of all modern chairs, the Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe is a ubiquitous and unmistakable classic of modern design.

German-born American Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created the Barcelona Chair for the German Pavilion in 1929 for the Barcelona Exposition. While some have tried to mimick the sleek silhouette and structure of the Barcelona Chair, Mies van der Rohe gave the exclusive manufacturing rights for his design to Knoll in 1953.

The Barcelona Chair and matching ottoman feature carefully hand-tufted leather with hand-buffed frame and carefully welted Spinneybeck volo cowhide panels. The Barcelona Chair is meticulously hand-crafted from start to finish and is truly a modern masterpiece. The Barcelona Lounge Collection was honored with The Museum of Modern Art Award in 1977.

Mies van der Rohe’s revolutionary 1929 design is still relevant today, fitting seamlessly with almost any decor. The Barcelona chair and ottoman set is a modern must-have. Today Knoll manufactures the frame in two different steel configurations, chrome and stainless. The chair is almost completely hand-laboured. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s signature is stamped into each chair.

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Want to learn more about the modern design movement?

Check out these great books and magazines about modern furniture & design:

A History of Modern Design: Graphics and Products Since the Industrial Revolution by: David Raizman

This book is a beautifully illustrated documentation of the history of the modern design movement and includes everything from modern furniture to modern fashion and advertising.

Twentieth-Century Design (Oxford History of Art) by: Jonathan M. Woodham

This is a very thorough and well-presented history of modern furniture design by Oxford History of Art – an essential for any modern design library.



The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design by: Martin Eidelberg, Thomas Hine, Pat Kirkham, David A. Hanks, C. Ford Peatross

The Eames Lounge Chair is a classic and this book commemorates its 50th anniversary with appropriate style and attention to detail.

Sourcebook of Modern Furniture, Third Edition by: Jerryll Habegger, Joseph H. Osman

A great resource and review of modern designers and architects.

Dwell

Dwell is the greatest magazine for staying up-to-date on modern design and architecture trends.




By: Mikey G

Building a house is not complete without furniture’s. Furniture can be of different materials like Wooden, Aluminum, Brass, Silver, Steel and Wrought iron. With the passing time the furniture’s have been tailored according to the taste of the people. This revolutionary change was brought by the innovative ideas of several modern furniture designers. Eero Aarnio is a Finnish designer who broke through the traditional concept of designing furniture. Plastic and fiberglass were the main material used for converting his imagination into reality. Some of his masterpieces were Ball chair (just designed like a globe. Fiberglass is the main material used to create this masterpiece on a metal swiveling base with upholstery. It is for a single person with mp3 player attached to it), Bubble chair, tomato chair, Pastil chair, Screw chair etc. Eero Aarnio `s magnificent work was not only made of fiber and plastic but he also experimented with wood, steel etc.

George Nelson was an architect and designer, well known as the creator of beautiful and practical things. One of his well known work is the bubble lump. Charles and Ray Eames were American designers who not only made several contributions in modern furniture designing but also in the fields of art, industrial designing, film, graphic designing and architecture. Their one of the remarkable piece of work is the lounge chair.

The talented Mies van rohe was a very well known architecture and also designed for the famous Barcelona chair. Eileen Gray started her carrier by learning the lacquer work and in due course of time she took interest in architecture. Her innovative ideas kept her moving. She also took interest in designing furniture’s one of her masterpieces were bibendum chair. Saarinen designed furniture according to the customer’s requirement.

Harry Bertoia was famous for his metal work and also imparted his knowledge of jewelry designing and metal work. His one of the famous work is the diamond chair.

le corbusier is also one of the multi talented designer. He is an architect, designer, urbanist and also painter, well renowned for his contribution to modern architecture.

Modern contemporary furniture comes in various shape and style from European designers, Italian designers etc. for living room, bathroom, dinning room, office, patio etc. There are exclusive furniture’s for every room. Several types of furniture’s are required for an office like table, chairs, sofas, computer desks, cabinet etc. all these furniture’s comes in contemporary shapes. The hectic schedule and the workaholic nature of the current generation have led to the invention of modern contemporary furniture; the modern chairs are also a part of it. It’s more elegent, stylish and comfortable. At the completion of day the body wants relaxation and the best place for that is the bed room. The most important furniture in the bed room is the bed. The modern bedroom designers with there innovative ideas have created several masterpieces. The contemporary modern bedroom furniture’s are sleek, trendy, glamorous and comfortable. When the mood is to take a break from the homely environment and break the monotony, there comes the contemporary patio range of furniture’s like table, chair, umbrella, cushion etc. this is not only the ideal way to unwind the stressed mind but it also adds on an aristocratic look to the home. There are other furniture’s which is generally a mix and match of the old style with a tinge of the modern concept like the retro furniture and the modern classics. It’s generally the revival of the old style crafted by the modern designers. From the ceiling to the floor, rugs to lamps every home item has been modified to give a more decorous look. Apart from modern bedroom furniture, modern dining chairs, modern patio furniture, there is the modern lighting system. There is a fascinating range of lightings. The sputnik lamp is one of the very well known sample of creative art in lighting system.

Home, the sweet home is the place which reflects the nature and characteristic of every person. It is the resting place of every man and therefore we want it to be always at its best appearance by designing its virtue using the right kind of furniture, the contemporary designer furniture.




By: Madhumita Santra