Luxury Apartment Design with Antique Furniture Decorating

A gallery owner, picture-framing expert and author of several design books has decorated her large London apartment in pale, creamy whites, concentrating on the play of natural light afforded by its luxuriously tall windows, instead of a separate dining-room she has been able to incorporate an antique table and chairs into the new kitchen, a [...]

Contemporary Minimalist Interior with French and Italian Antiques Furniture

There are entire streets in London where so little has changed that one marvels at the sense of having stepped back in time. Newly painted, unusually colored front doors are sometimes the only clue that the nineteenth century has well and truly gone, and that owners today live in a quite different way from their [...]

Classic European Home with Asian Antiques Furniture in Chel Embankment London

Located in an enviable positions on London’s Chel Embankment, this substantial corner house has sweeping river views, large rooms and appropriately high ceilings. A complete redesign and refurbishment was carried out by a Mun-rich-based designer for her German client, whose brief focused of total comfort and relaxation. She has achieved a synthesis between a very [...]

Luxury Period Architecture Home with Artistic Furniture

Space tends to dictate how rooms are furnished, and the owner of this large west London house, a furniture designer whose work is artistic and sculptural, has used his luxurious light-filled rooms to display a collection of his own work and some his favorite twentieth-century design icons. The high ceilings, tall windows and pale floors [...]

Contemporary and Antique furniture in London’s Premier Squares

A beautifully balanced mix of contemporary and antique furniture. Certain items such as side-tables, headboards and cupboards were custom-made and covered in various leathers and vellum, tactile and rich.

Andy Martin Associates Weinerchaise Brick Chair

At this year’s 100% Design show in London, Andy Martin Associates will be exhibiting the ‘Weinerchaise’ as part of the ‘100% Inspiration’ feature. This is Andy Martin’s response to the brick as an inspirational object, “it is such an iconic British building material and I thought it worth pursuing for inspiration. Individually a brick seems [...]

Lise and Hans Isbrand Plane Easy Chair and Table

Danish furniture manufacturer PP Møbler have now put into production the Plane easy chair and table that were designed in 2003 by Lise and Hans Isbrand.
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h220430 Design Studio Ivy Chair

Japanese design studio h220430 designer, Satoshi Itasaka has made Ivy Chair.
While living in the city where nature was excluded to the utmost limit, we tend to forget the fact that we depend on the power of nature and we do not remember it until natural disaster strikes. However, I believe that we should always appreciate [...]

Designers at Large Flatfish folding chair

This past weekend, contemporist.com attended the IDSWest design show in Vancouver, Canada, where we met Kevin Wharton of Designers at Large. Kevin was exhibiting the FlatFish no.1 prototype, which is designed to be used in small apartments, and can transform from a chair to a coffee table, bedside table, or bench.
Description of FlatFish Furniture
In many [...]

Prajakta Bamanikar Goan Bamboo Chair Bombay India

Prajakta Bamanikar an Industrial Design student at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, has designed a bamboo chair for use by restaurants in the popular tourist region of Goa.
The project aims at designing a trendy dining chair in bamboo for Goan restaurants.
With the continued rapid development of the global economy and constant increase [...]