Craftsmanship, wood and contemporary shapes for chalet-style living rooms
Bringing a little bit of the mountains to the city as well. Among the latest furniture trends, the mountain chalet style has become highly coveted by those who want to give their homes a comfortable and cozy air. It is designed as a cocoon that protects from the outside and welcomes inhabitants with a warm palette and a comforting sense of protection.
Classic shelter interiors are reinterpreted by architects in a contemporary way, always taking into account the surrounding environment. Furniture and decorations, in fact, must be in tune with the scenery. In furnishing a mountain home, wood is the undisputed protagonist, both on floors and ceilings. Not only parquet floors and exposed beams for the ceilings, but also wooden furniture to be chosen in natural tones (walnut, cherry, ash) with clean lines.
Keeping the original architectural elements as much as possible, such as exposed beams, stone walls, then makes the chalet even more rustic yet elegant. The living area is the heart of the house where conviviality is experienced, so it is necessary to choose a nice comfortable, soft sofa, preferably with lots of cushions, and wooden details. Make way then for paneling, furniture covered in fir strips, rustic tables, console tables and wooden bookcases that add warmth and sophistication to rooms.
Alberese, the linear and flexible sofa by Piero Lissoni for DePadova
Alberese is the harmonious, linear and flexible modular project designed by architect Piero Lissoni for DePadova, a symbol of contemporary, personal, cozy living. “Alberese is a sofa born from many reflections and therefore frozen in its essence. Ithas big cushions, it is comfortable but also elegant,” is how Lissoni defined it.
“It’s called Alberese ,” he explained, “after the name of a very streamlined land (the Tuscan Maremma), large and with very visible horizons just like the sofa: a sofa that you can see, but at the same time very low with great comfort and very special angles, straddling design and architecture.
An upholstered collection this one with sloping arms where you can relax, read, and be together. All elements of the system share deep and comfortable seating-single modules, corner modules, as well as chaise longue and ottoman- and design solutions that are different every time where small and big everyday stories can happen. This is a classically cut sectional sofa system upholstered on the floor. The end module with open-angle armrest gives the product extreme comfort given by the feather seat.
Rolf Benz 900, Beck Design’s dining table that combines elegance and craftsmanship
Rustic elegance for the Rolf Benz 900 dining table, created by Beck Design for the Benz brand. Starting with the shape, which can be rectangular in three sizes, but also round or-for a particularly soft and organic feel-made with an amorphous design. A line that combines elegance with the best woodworking, in which the table top is available in natural oak, black-stained oak, or American walnut. For the frame you can choose from: natural oak, black stained oak, American walnut, traffic black and shadow gray. The frame and table top can also be combined with a mix of materials.
Recipio, the Maxalto table that inspires conviviality
Its name inspires a sense of refined hospitality. Recipio, the table designed by architect Antonio Citterio for Maxalto is essential and sober; it has a slatted top that rests on sloping legs joined by crosspieces. Made of oak, in different variations, it is a contemporary version of the type called fratino. Suitable not only for the dining area, it reveals all its elegance even without chairs around it. Originating from an element that functioned as a bedside table, it now comes with an entire line consisting of a console table, a series of round and rectangular side tables, a writing desk equipped with a drawer, and a dining table in two sizes made of light, gray or black oak wood.
It can find a place in the dining area or at the entrance, offering both a countertop and a display function.
Tour, the console artwork by Cattelan Italia
A design that is light, delicate, sinuous and at the same time full of warmth is that of Tour, the console table designed by Giorgio Cattelan for Cattelan Italia. Peculiarities of this furniture are the oval-shaped leg enclosed between the two parallelograms of the base and the top available in transparent crystal, extra-clear crystal or walnut. Such a console table easily finds its place in a transition area of the house, but also in the living room, thanks to its harmonious shape that allows it to be easily integrated into various types of environments.
Grid, the new modular wall-system that revolutionizes the home space
Essentiality and concreteness, these are the characteristics of Grid, a new addition to the modular wall-system by Molteni & C that bears the signature of Vincent Van Duysen, a Belgian architect and interior designer who creates furnishings of great purity and essentiality, despite retaining a character of concreteness and solid formal foundations.
An innovation that leads to the evolution of the home space through the presence of electronic devices. The system is modular and is equipped with a paneling made of folding, fixed to the wall, within which LED lighting is inserted on request both in the middle and upper part along the entire length, various connections, flexible open system on the basis of a modular grid, which organizes the elements of the composition and enhances its function.
Compositional freedom is enhanced in the upper part by using open bookcases, showcases or display cases, displays at different heights for precious objects, paintings, mementos of everyday life, painted in the metallic finishes of Pewter and Copper.
Riddled Totem, the sculptural bookcase made of wood and metal
A true work of art composed of an aluminum structure and five elements made of two-millimeter-thick wooden sheets and folded like origami, thanks to a complex patented technological process. Riddled Totem, the bookcase cabinet by Casamania & Horm has great charm and elegance thanks to its sculptural volumes, already characterized by the perforated textures typical of many famous works by Steven Holl.
The result is a multifaceted container, as light and shiny as a diamond, but made of wood. Five different containers equipped with an opening door with magnetic closure, made from a material created and patented by Horm consisting of a 2.2-mm-thick sandwich of wood and fabric that, thanks to surface incisions made by laser cutting, is folded like origami.
