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.

Leif.designpark Hug Lounge Sofa

Leif.designpark a Japanese based design studio have created the Hug Lounge Sofa for De La Espada.
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 [...]

Metro 40 Landscape Forms Street Furniture

BMW Group DesignworksUSA have created the Metro40 collection of street furniture for Landscape Forms, a Kalamazoo, Michigan based manufacturer of site furniture for outdoor spaces.
The Metro40 collection includes seating, shelters, lighting, and amenities, and has been developed for use by city planners and architects to help global urban centers elevate the livability, quality of experience, [...]

Philip Edis Furniture The Shelter Series

Philip Edis designer from Stockholm has created furniture, the Shelter Series
Shelter series is two chairs and a table/stool. The furnitures are stabile and protective. Shelter series is like an aura around you, airy and transparent. The expression is constructive and simple, massive and fragile at the same time. When you place the Shelter series in [...]

Erik Magnussen Plateau Lounge Chair

The chair has been christened Plateau, since its right armrest has a wide flat surface on which the user can place his/her Dry Martini, remote control or even a laptop.
Erik Magnussen a Danish designer is man who design this chair for Copenhagen based furniture manufacturer Engelbrechts.
The chair is 120 cm tall and set on a [...]

Montley III wood furniture design by Samuel Chan

Motley III is designed by Samuel Chan for Channels, British, London based design firms. Motley III is series of ten furniture and lighting designs.
The series explores new geometric and organic forms and reflects Samuel’s signature purist style. Inherent in his approach is an ability to understand the ongoing potential of wood in new design. His [...]