Maximum Home Furnishing Flexibility with Modular Sectionals & Recliners

Maximum Home Furnishing Flexibility with Modular Sectionals & Recliners: One of the great things about sectionals and theater-style recliners is that they can be scaled to fit any room or layout. No matter what your personal tastes are, there’s something for everyone, from sectional sleeper sofas and leather sectionals to microfiber sectional sofas and the new home theater recliners that make cinematic history when it comes to comfort and style. Thanks to different configurations and sizes, you can create maximum seating in even the smallest of spaces.

For example, leather sectionals, slipcover sectionals, microfiber sectional sofas and home theater recliners offer the greatest flexibility in a living room, allowing you to mix and match to create a fresh look. No matter which combination you choose, you can be sure that all of the products from KMP Furniture are manufactured to the highest standards of quality, using the best materials available.

We offer a wide range of modern furniture styles, from leather sectionals to the increasingly popular home theater recliners in the most popular designer colors and fabrics, including microfiber, one of the most durable and comfortable materials on the market today.

: One of the great things about sectionals and theater-style recliners is that they can be scaled to fit any room or layout. No matter what your personal tastes are, there’s something for everyone, from sectional sleeper sofas and leather sectionals to microfiber sectional sofas and the new home theater recliners that make cinematic history when it comes to comfort and style. Thanks to different configurations and sizes, you can create maximum seating in even the smallest of spaces.

For example, leather sectionals, slipcover sectionals, microfiber sectional sofas and home theater recliners offer the greatest flexibility in a living room, allowing you to mix and match to create a fresh look. No matter which combination you choose, you can be sure that all of the products from KMP Furniture are manufactured to the highest standards of quality, using the best materials available.

We offer a wide range of modern furniture styles, from leather sectionals to the increasingly popular home theater recliners in the most popular designer colors and fabrics, including microfiber, one of the most durable and comfortable materials on the market today.

Add a Sofa to Your Office

If you have a business, especially a successful one, chances are good that your clients will be needing to wait to meet with you from time to time. And while you can always go with the tacky plastic chairs that seem to line every waiting room across America, several sofas can really make you stand out in the business world.

While you could conceivably use a domestic sofa or sofa set for your office, you may want to go with something a little less frilly and a little more durable, particularly if your business receives a lot of clients, such as a law firm, a doctor’s office or a counselor.

When buying an office sofa, you want to consider two main things, color and style. The style of the sofa should match your business. If you are a professional, such as a counselor or lawyer, you may want to go with modern furniture in a brown or black leather. If you want to create a more relaxing environment, you may want to go with something a little more rounded and informal, such as a camel back.

Color is another important consideration. Color not only affects the cohesiveness of the room’s décor, but affects the emotions and moods of visitors. A red sofa is energetic while a blue sofa calms. Of course, you can never go wrong with muted tones or earth tones. Black is good too. Avoid white or any bright shades of any color since it will show dirt quickly.

When you’re in the process of selecting a sofa, you want to find one that’s low maintenance. Be sure to have your sofa treated with a stain retardant. This will keep the sofa from becoming stained with the usual suspects, such as food and spilled sodas.

You also want to find a sofa that is easy to keep up in appearance. Don’t bother with pillow back sofas. Office staff will be driven mad trying to keep all the pillows straightened. Stick with cushion backs – the fewer, the better. This goes for the seat cushions as well.

An office is the one place where comfort isn’t a great concern. Unless your clients or patients are waiting for an hour or more to see you, comfort doesn’t have to be the main consideration for a change.

If you’re just starting out or need to keep your cash flow positive, you may want to consider leasing your office sofa along with your other office furniture. Just be sure you’re getting a good deal. Drive a hard bargain or you may find that the leased goods are costing you more than an outright purchase.

Finally, be sure you take advantage of the tax breaks related to office expenses. You may find that a more expensive sofa or other office furnishings will kick you into a more favorable tax bracket when tax time rolls around.

Louise Campbell – Modern Furniture

If summertime could choose its designer, Louise Campbell would be first call. Campbell’s work is vibrant, energetic and captures the sentiment of a fresh summer day. One may find themselves smiling involuntarily when viewing her creations. In exchange for profundity, Campbell instead judges her work by how much fun erupts.
Born in Copenhagen in 1970, she is daughter to a Danish father and English mother. Campbell grew up greatly influenced by both countries. She graduated from the London College of Furniture in 1992. Four years later she set up her own studio in Denmark, which remains her base camp to this day. Artists, designers and architects alike are many times measured by their exquisite paintings, natural abilities and well engineered buildings. A better measuring stick is the personal affect a work of art has on its viewer. It takes boldness to leave room for the amateur eye. Yet, the more room left for interpretation, the longer the life of the work. Millions of eyes have millions of interpretations.
It is with this philosophy in mind that Louise Campbell accomplishes beautiful first and secondary art from her work. That is, she creates artistic interpretations that are birthed out of her original work. She uses light and shadows to uncover images not seen in the original design. A great example of her second tier artistry is her work on the Spiderwoman, Retreat and Zanotta chair renditions.

These creations birth secondary designs once touched by artificial or natural light. It is beautiful to behold. In the Spiderwoman design, geometric shadows add complexity to an otherwise straightforward design, just the right amount of texture. The same experience emanates from Retreat, a honey-comb-like chair that seems to maintain it uprightness from an invisible axis. Lovely work. This type of approach also tends to engage a younger demographic that may otherwise not be interested in architecture. There is a youthful attraction to movable, flexible artistry that can be manipulated in real-time by simply adjusting the angles.
From her Denmark studio, Campbell has produced numerous notable works. Campbell joyfully describes her hollowed workspace, “We are situated in an old workshop in the heart of Copenhagen. The floor drops 28 cm from one end of the space to the other. This means that all our mess and coffee-spills end up in a pile at the far end of the space. Next to me!” Campbell has a three-prong philosophy in her studio, always start from scratch, find the core of the issue, and dare to be different. These simple, yet effective rules have expanded her client list which now includes: Louis Poulsen, Zanotta, HAY, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Stelton, Muuto, and The Danish Ministry of Culture, among others.
The work completed for the Danish Ministry of Culture has gained special significance. Campbell took a refreshing look at a rather stressful, stiff governmental environment. The result was the creation of a cozy, welcoming space. Her use of colors, and at times the lack of color, exceeded expectations.

Denmark, continues to benefit greatly from having Campbell as its citizen. She has taken it upon herself to improve the image and design of the city. One initiative has been “Walk the Plank.” This is a collaboration between 30 modern furniture designers and numerous cabinet makers all who donate their time to create original designs. The objective is to leave a lasting impression on all who visit the city.

Notable exhibitions highlighting Campbell’s work include: Sim Sum, Madrid, EPAL, Iceland, Studies of Light, Louis Poulsen, 3 Falke Møbler, Copenhagen, ‘Quick. Quick, Slow’ – Danish Design Centre, and Waiting Rooms, Trapholt museum of Design. Awards received include: Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal, The Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum, Bruno Mathsson Award, and the Wallpaper Magazine Interiors Maverick Award.
Campbell has a design style that in many ways is counter-intuitive to today’s trends. She wisely commented on this dynamic in an interview with Danish Crafts. Campbell stated, “Trends arise because we all have a need to possess what others have, a need to belong. Parents who don’t treat their children exactly the same are the exception rather than the rule. Therefore we learn early on that homogeneity is good, that it prevents conflicts, and that there is a certain orderly logic to the whole concept,” Campbell concludes, “The premise of the craftsman is, cynically speaking, to go against the flow, whatever the consequences. They travel the uncharted path, as indeed they must in order to capture new territory.”

Coop Himmelblau – commercial and residential architectural

Coop Himmelblau is a cooperative architectural design firm which was located in Vienna Austria. This award winning post-modernist group of creatives was founded by Wolf Prix, and Helmut Swiczinsky.  These architects are very famous for partaking in the 1988 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called “Deconstrucitvist Architecture.”  That show, which is now three decades old change the way we view commercial and residential architectural projects and the post modernist influence of this cooperative dots landscapes all over the world. 

Coop Himmelblau now also maintains offices in Los Angeles in the U.S. and in Guadalajara, Mexico. The name means “heaven construction” in German and in English translates to 
 

mean “sky blue.”  The coop is not like “chicken coop” but rather the abbreviation for the work cooperative. 

If the building seems crooked, twisted or missing a few beams or if it seems a bit out of perspective or balancing magically with no support than it is probably is designed by someone from Coop Himmelblau or by someone who has been influenced by Wolf Prix, Michael Holzer or Helmut Swiczinsky. 

A very famous building is the UFA-Palaste in Dresden which looks like a giant pointed quartz crystal extending out of the side of the building. The construction is made of hundreds of facets of window paned glass and  

looks like it is naturally growing out of the building. 

Yet another very famous piece of architecture designed by the Coop Himmelblau is the Gasometer building in Vienna, which looks like a thin, bent stick of gum with balconies running up the side. It is one of the narrowest buildings in the world. 

Another signature building is the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, which has a beautiful deconstructed roof.  It literally looks like a bomb has dropped on top of the building and the beams fixed together in an artistic jumble. 

This team of famous designers has been together for a good part of the last century. Wolf Dieter Prix was born in 1942 in Vienna. Helmut Swiczinsky was born in 1944 in Poznan, Poland. They formed Co-op Himmelblau in 
 

Vienna in 1968 as an alternative and creative approach to architecture.  

The sketeches that the buildings are created from are very free form and are intended to be gestural and free from the restrictions of formalism. The intent is creating open minded free spaces that are undefined, interesting and complex. 

From out of this process came a trend for designing buildings that are almost entirely made out of panes of glass. A very good example of this is the Skygarden building in their hometown of Vienna which is 25 stories of leveled 

glass. Along with experimenting with the look of glass the cooperative has also been experimenting with the passive heat and cooling systems that can be developed for a building that has such a façade.  Another reason for paying attention to this element has been to develop “gardens in the sky” that can be cultivated by humans who before this time in history had to be happy residing in dwellings on the ground. The concept behind the firm named Himmelblua is to literally uplift mankind into the sky with the use of architecture. 

If the firm is known for anything it is also its theoretical process of designing buildings.  Everything that manifests from Coop Himmelblau begins with many long conversations that re eventually transformed into drawings.  Coop Himmelblau is so famous just for it’s concepts that sometimes simply the plans for a project are exhibited at a famous gallery museum. 

This team has won many awards including two American Architecture Awards for the Chicago Athenaeum in Illinois and the Akron Art Museum in Ohio.  

One of the most interesting things about this firm is that their vision is still creative yet it has never changed. The influence of Coop Himmelblau is absolutely seminal and their designs are taught as a primer in basic deconstructivism in every university or college that is devoted to design in the world.

Modern designer chairs:

Barcelona chair |
Rod Arad Tom Vac chair |
Azumi Lem Piston Stool |
Bellini chair |
Arco Armchair |
Bertoia Side Chair |
Bertoia diamond lounge chair |
Breuer Wassily chair |
Eames Molded plastic armchair |
Eames Molded plastic side chair |
Eames Molded plywood chair |
Arne Jacobsen Series 7 chair |
Knoll chair |
Panton chair |
Saarinen Tulip Armless chair |
Starck Louis Ghost Chair |
Toledo chair |
Zig zag chair |
Marcel Wanders chair

The Best of BKLYN Designs 2008

It’s not the biggest modern design event in the world – or even in New York — but the annual BKLYN Designs Modern Furniture Exhibition, held this month in DUMBO, maintained its reputation this month as the place to spot up-and-coming design superstars before they become household names.  This year’s wunderkind is recent Pratt Institute grad Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn, who blew attendees away with his constellation chandelier.  Comprised of 364 LED lights clustered at the tips of 91 copper tubes, the freeform, hanging lamp looks like a sort of ethereal, modern starburst.  Of course, it’s energy efficient – using as much electricity as a 20-volt light bulb — as well as incredibly beautiful.  The designer is currently seeking approval to make the chandelier available to consumers in the near future.

What makes the BKLYN Designs show special is it’s small size – the handful of exhibits are carefully curated, use only local designers and locally sourced materials, and always includes an exhibit from students at the prestigious (and local) Pratt Institute.  Other impressive work this year came from established area shops like Brave Space, Argington and especially Uhuru, who caused a sensation by transforming old bourbon bottles into sleek, modern furniture with a spare, slightly Asian aesthetic.   Finally, a reason to feel good about drinking Jack Daniels…