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Class Up Your Home Interiors With Italian Furniture
Posted by admin in Italian Furniture on July 16, 2011
Italian furniture, with its timeless appeal and sophisticated look gives your home interiors a classy decor and make a compelling statement. Brighten up your rooms with the exquisite Italian furniture that syncs in with all kinds of home furnishing.
Whether a 10th floor apartment amidst the city or a simple home on a quiet lane in the outskirts, you want your home to look perfect. When it comes to home decor, everyone has a distinct taste abiding by the individual’s lifestyle. Most of you hire a professional interior designer to carry out the home furnishing job. Though there’s no doubt that a professional can make your home look fabulous, it’s not necessary that the decor reflects your lifestyle as well. Put in little efforts to furnish your home and add a personal touch to your home decor.
Setting up a perfectly furnished home becomes quite easy when you choose furniture that’s classy, stylish and comfortable. There are such incredible pieces of furniture that brighten up the room with their distinguished look. Matching up to the class of the elite group, Italian furniture is the finest furnishing for decorating interiors. With it’s sleek and modern designs, the furniture fits into any kind of interior layout. When you buy a piece of Italian furniture, you buy a piece of art. So, bring in class and style with each masterpiece.
When you are entertaining guests in your home, the attention grabber is the setup of your living room. So, make it a point to embellish it with the most exquisite Italian furniture. Italian living room furniture with their opulent upholstery are certain to make a commendable statement. There’s a whole gamut of furniture to enrich the appearance of your living room. Aristocratic sectional sofas, luxurious leather sofas, classy club and arm chairs, innovative ottomans are some of the ornaments that adorn your home. The crown jewel amongst all these wonderful pieces, coffee table, comes in sleek designs that sync in with all kinds of furniture.
Moving to bedroom, Italian beds with their fabulous designs light up the entire room. It’s a place where you sojourn and retire after a long and tiring day, so the ambiance of the room should be relaxing and rejuvenating. A class apart, Italian furniture can add charm to your bedroom furnishing. With beautifully crafted beds, exceptionally designed dressers and gorgeous pieces of nightstands, you will get an exemplary bedroom. Italian furniture not only makes your interiors look incredible but gives you your money’s worth as well. Read the rest of this entry »
An Introduction To Italian Furniture
Posted by admin in Italian Furniture on June 16, 2011
Italian furniture can actually be quite radically diverse in design. In ancient Rome, where the architecture of the period was generally highly elaborate with its intricate columns, fountains and frescoes, the need for equally elaborate furniture was deemed unnecessary. The architecture was designed to be eye catching whereas the furniture, quite elegant for sure but nonetheless quite simple, was designed mainly for comfort.
Another style of furniture, however, can be characterized by having the opposite qualities. This style, known as the Tuscan style after the area in which it was first produced, is, by contrast, generally highly decorative and often incorporates the use of materials such as iron or marble. The Tuscan style also tends to introduce a combination of unique architectural elements into the design which makes it particular eye catching and spectacular.
A further division of the furniture of Italy can lead us into categorizing it into a number of different styles. These would include the Baroque, the Renaissance and the Rococo style which much like the modern style of Tuscany can all be dated back to the fourteenth century onwards.
The pieces that would be on display in the homes of ancient Italy would include couches, stools and chairs, tables and chests, cabinets and of course beds. In the dining area, or the “triclinium” a small and low table would be surrounded by two or three reclining couches of varying sizes. The bedroom or “cubiculum” would be furnished with a couch called a “lectus” which would be both used as a bed and as a place to simply sit and relax.
The frame of the lectus couch would be criss-crossed with leather straps onto which a mattress made of either straw, wool or feathers would be laid. On the mattress would be placed a set of finely detailed coverlet with matching pillows. The pieces would very often be adorned with embellishments of ivory, precious metals and even tortoise shell designs. The materials mainly used for the body of the work would be a cedar that would then be veneered and polished to a fine gloss.
The actual layout and use of the pieces would tell a lot about both social status and political status. In the dining area the most prominent person would occupy the highest couch, whereas an unimportant person would have a much lower couch nearby. Women would all have to sit whilst eating both to avoid the “unfeminine” reclining position and to denote subservience. A change in seating would indicate a similar change in status. Read the rest of this entry »