Two of the most important elements of design are proportion and perception. How the piece will be seen in relation to its surroundings and how it affects its surroundings when standing alone can make a big difference in the perception of the design. Conversely, proportion isn鈥檛 only about size, but also innovation. Incorporation of ideas into a piece means balance and harmony. In modern furniture design, these elements can rock a room.
Bedroom furniture has always been large and clunky. The beds with headboards and footboards were heavy and had to be put together using iron rails and heavy slats. Modern design is about flow and the grace that is found in harmony. For example, the Scoshi bed combines the night table with the headboard attached to the frame. Made of sustainable bamboo, this piece draws the eye with its balanced flow. If the bed was the only piece in the room, it would naturally command attention. Designing storage space into the base of the bed had to have been made by someone tired of moving behemoth chests of drawers or dressers. The Buden bed combines open-end storage and/or drawers with the bed frame to create a simple piece with clean lines. Also made of sustainable bamboo, the bed can come with an integrated headboard.
Speaking of storage, people in the past have felt trapped with cabinets, armories, highboys, and blanket chests. What a joy to see a storage design that is capacity-sensitive combined with balance and flair. The Malta series is the perfect example of stackable storage cabinets which can be combined with shelving incorporating drawers. Placed side by side or stacked, the simple design is proportion and perception at their best. Brix is a module-based idea that has infinite arrangement possibilities that is in danger of having its purpose, storage, lost in wonder at its balance and harmony.
No one thinks twice about a dining table; they just draw up a chair and dig into the lasagna. People are used to ball and claw feet on a table or tortuous carving on legs and other surfaces. Modern furniture design gives people a chance to deeply appreciate the comfort of flow. The Clarges dining table won鈥檛 cause someone to sit with a table leg between his chair and his lasagna because he got placed at a corner. For the simplicity of balance and grace, though, the Hanover 102鈥?dining table defines modern design.
Indoors or outdoors, furniture is furniture to anyone else. To those who appreciate modern design, it is an exercise in lightening up. It鈥檚 a marriage between pieces that go together. Modern design uses imagination and common sense, two things that usually don鈥檛 meet in the same sentence. But it works, and it works with balance, grace and flair. That鈥檚 the true definition of the elements of design, two of which are proportion and perception. When the two blend to create a perfectly balanced piece, even those who prefer clunky and carved to simple and light take notice.
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