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Archive for August, 2008
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Modern Furniture
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Modern Architecture
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Contemporary Leather Furniture
Contemporary leather furniture can add class and style to your home, giving it a revitalized and modern look. Contemporary sofas and tables are probably the easiest ways of transforming your living area and there are some exciting designs and colours to choose from. Modern furniture has no boundaries and can be influenced by different cultures, such as Italian and French themes, for example, or have ethnic overtones to suit individual tastes. Many furniture items, such as contemporary cabinets, can blend into your new colour scheme and break up space to provide eye-catching displays and impress visitors and friends.
Getting started and deciding what furniture styles appeal to you
Unless you are going to employ an internal designer, you need to put some thought and planning into your choice. Just buying say a new leather sofa or modern cabinet and not taking into account the general aesthetics of your home, could prove to be a wrong decision.
Selection of contemporary furniture should have a theme and if it is to be mixed with more traditional furniture, needs very careful consideration. If you are intending to completely change the layout, a 
floor plan should be made, starting with an empty room. Take careful note of where electrical appliances need to be stationed for power source and which way you want your furniture to face. By mapping out potential seating areas and storage areas you can then determine walking space and open areas-very important to ensure the room does not appear to be cluttered and haphazard.
Take careful consideration of the colour schemes and any contrasts you want to introduce as this will have a major bearing on items of furniture you will be choosing. Contemporary leather furniture goes well with most internal rooms and modern cabinets can be added to blend, or contrast with them. Display spaces, whether they are tables or cabinets, should look pleasing to the eye and create an illusion of space and detachment whilst belonging to the overall theme. Any leather furniture can be enhanced by fabric sheets, rugs and pillows to give an added touch.
Shop around to get as many ideas as possible
Using a reputable online store, such as KMP, you will find a vast selection of models and designs of contemporary leather furniture, together with other furniture accessories that you can mix and match in different ways to discern the most appealing combinations. Contemporary can be as extreme as you want and there are many award-winning designs such as Patricia Urquiola, that will give you an insight of how furniture can be blended and arranged to give the best effect and presentation.
Once you have made a list of options, take careful note of measurements and make scaled paper patterns to fit into your layout. In this way you can arrive at several variations on a theme and possibly share with friends to get their opinions. This part of the exercise can be fun and help you to arrive at the ideal solution. Take note of colour decor of walls and floor coverings (unless you intend to change them) to ensure they harmonize with your selections. Many contemporary sofa tables and individual pieces of modern furniture are designed to be able to be adjusted and changed, which can give an added bonus and give variety when needed. Many models of leather sofas, particularly, are made with movable parts and corner sections that can be adjusted and changed when required.
A new look is like a new home
A new set of contemporary leather furniture in a home can give a refreshing new lease of life to its occupants and their improved comfort. Using a methodical method of planning to help you decide your changes, in a systematic manner, will give you the best results and something to enjoy for a long time to come.
Author: Rafael Montilla
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Chad Oppenheim | Miami skyline
Chad Oppenheim is possibly the sleekest and stylish of designers, and at 34 years of age, he is also an international award winning architectural visionary.
He received a bachelor of architecture from Cornell University in 1994, and is now the founding principal of Miami-based “Oppenheim Architecture and Design”. When he was starting out at 28 years old, he says “In the beginning you are just glad to get any type of work”.
Within 7 years, Oppenheim has established himself an architectural ‘bravado’ whose forward thinking has made a dramatic impact on modern architecture. An energetic New York City native, he has designed numerous structures, many still in construction, that will soon alter the Miami skyline. His cutting edge works have ranged from single residential houses, to billion dollar Hotel Resorts in Las Vegas. Predominantly, his groundbreaking work on multi-story condominium buildings has carved his outstanding reputation for creating spaces and moments that enhance the pleasures of inhabitants’ lives.
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Patricia Urquiola
Storming into the field of big names in architecture and interior design, Spanish born designer, Patricia Urquiola, decided her vocation in life at age 12.
“At that young age, I liked the idea of creative work with rigor”, she says.
Patricia Urquiola has certainly applied herself with rigor in the modern design world, and in her own words, was ‘professionally re-born’ in Italy where she is now based. Virtually unknown in Spain, she has crafted a substantial career in Milan working with key figures in the Milanese design fraternity including Magistretti and Castiglioni, who helped blossom her talent.
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Enrique Norton
Enrique Norton was born on February 27th, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico. His father came to Mexico as part of the German Jewish diaspora of the 1940s. As a young child, Enrique enjoyed taking apart toys and putting them back together, only to figure out the intricacies of how they worked. This was the making of ingenious child. As a young youth, Enrique’s parents aspired for him to become a doctor or lawyer, but his passion was elsewhere. In 1978 Enrique Norton graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture. He continued to pursue his education further. Two years later, in 1980 Enrique graduated from the widely acclaimed American architectural college, Cornell University in Ithaco, New York with his Master’s degree of Architecture. Enrique Norton began his professional career as an architect with his first practice in Mexico City, Mexico. It was one year later in 1981, after he obtained his master’s in architecture, that Enrique had become a partner in an architectural firm called Albin y Norton Arquitectos.
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Álvaro Siza
Perhaps one of the most admired architects, Álvaro Siza has been inspiring modern design since his humble beginnings, building small home projects in his birth town, Matosinhos in Portugal during the 1950’s. Now, with over half a century of projects in his midst, Siza’s range of architectural interests remains especially broad, from residences to churches, schools, shopping centers, libraries, museums, and occasionally furniture.
His design for the The Iberê Camargo Foundation’s, a monumental project, has been heralded as, arguably, his most outstanding work to date.
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