Its gaining popularity year after year, and apparently it will not stop. The thrifting fever is here to stay.

Thrifting (that is, buying second hand merchandising from charities or donation stores), is on the rise and not for financial reasons. It’s becoming part of a broader phenomenon where fashion style and ecological awareness is melting in a new set of preferences.

A key factor that hints about the permanency of thrifting, is that the phenomena is driven by the youth. Nowadays, to wear vintage clothes, or using vintage furniture is considered cool and trendy. Even big media, celebrities, are big enthusiasts that present houses where proudly they declare how many articles come from thrifting stores or flea markets.

What are the benefits of Thrifting?

Of course thrifting has its benefits, and its most enthusiasts advocates have some reasons worthy of listen.

Thrifting is cheaper. Obviously, buying second-hand furniture or clothing may be cheaper in the beginning. If your item of furniture is worthy, like a Barcelona Chair replica by Manhattan Home Designs,  it will last for many years, but if we talk about cheap and bad quality, low ends items,  it may ending expensive un the future, when you need to replace your piece again.

Thrifting is eco friendly. Not buying new furniture may help, allegedly, to take care of the planet, if it helps to reduce the carbon footprint

Thrifting helps the community. Many thrifting stores make contributions and donations to the community. Buy in a thrifting store may result in benefits for your neighbors and your surroundings.

And finally, thrifting is trendy. At least these days.

Is thrifting a good way to get your Barcelona Chair?. We’ll see that in our next article.

The arrival of the Pandemic times, COVID 19, and the unavoidable Lockdown bring us new surprises every day. Some changes are good without discussion, but some changes are just curious, let’s see.

Lockdown,  quarantine may change the daily routines for a family, including our purchases, like furniture purchases. The difficulties to move around the city, or to guarantee logistic coordination may really turn us down. From this reality, some new social responses are coming around. Stooping my be one of them.

Sharing and snabbling discarding freebies is one of the trends that rose greatly this year, and people are calling this Stooping. It consists in to look and find in the streets of NYC, a part of the furniture of your dreams,  even your entire living room. Nowadays powerful names in the social networks have emerged to cover all the angles of the Stooping movement.  The idea is to make one fine finding, or reset of your space, all with lost jewels dumped in the streets of NYC. This means NYC furniture.  You should take a picture of the furniture piece “before” (in the street), and one when it is settled in your place.

On the other hand, lots of people just like to take a pic of some valuable piece of furniture they find on the street, with the hope that someone in need could take it and give it a proper use. And NYC is without a doubt, a paradise for Stooping. Daily,  dozens of properties dump in its garbage pieces of furniture of high quality or medium quality, with lots of wearing or medium use.  For many people in this trend, this is a gold mine with countless beautiful pieces.  All styles can be found there:  Mid Century Modern, Scandi, a lot of office furniture…The sky is the limit. Even celebrities have turned in favor of this practice.

Not just a trend

But is not only a matter of feeling the joy of décor your place with furniture found in the streets. It has to do with ecological reasons, too. One more table rescued is one minus table that ended manufactured by any house. Stooping helps to take care of the planet, by reducing the  waste.

But there are risks

But not everything is so shiny about Stooping.  In the end, you are taking objects from the street garbage, and you should be aware of that.  Every piece taken should be carefully and cautiously cleaned in order to prevent any risk of contamination. A special focus in this matter has to do with COVID 19.

I will get what I find, Not what I want.

You have to take in consideration that you will take what you find in the street, and that is not necessarily what you need and desire. If you made your mind of taking a Barcelona Chair home, hardly you would get it in the streets of NYC. Why? Well. generally the happy owner of a Barcelona Chair knows what it is, and take care of it.  As a brand new replica, or as a vintage piece, Barcelona Chair are always desired, and not the type of things that you find in the garbage.

If you want to enjoy the experience of a great replica of the Barcelona Chair, don’t lose the opportunity and go to Manhattan Home Design, the best alternative in the market of replicas of Mid Century Modern Style.

A chair itself is not art, but innovative designs and classic models can be considered as valuable. Valuable, transcendent designs may be exposed in several museums around the world, in what they call retrospectives.

But in the end, a valuable, worthy chair has always an innovation elements in the time of its apparition or release.

Innovation in design is crucial. Materials, manufacture, beauty are key elements to talk about a good design in a chair.

The Barcelona Chair is a great example of breakthrough design. It was released in 1929, and by that time brought with it several elements considered as innovative, as revolutionary. Its iconic “X” frame and experimental approach on materials were very innovative at that time. Nowadays the Barcelona Chair is a highly popular item because of its beauty and is established as a classic accent chair.

Knoll manufacture the original since the 1950s, and established replicas firms like Barcelona Designs and Manhattan Home Designs made their renderings since the 2000s very successfully. From the original pig skin model of the 1929, till the day of today, in high end replicas of aniline leather, the Barcelona Chair has the permanency of classics. Don’t miss the opportunity in Manhattan Home Designs to get the experience of an exceptional piece, at affordable price.

The Barcelona Chair is not really art because it has been created with a functional purpose, but it transcends its functional purpose to become valuable through time.

Learn more of the Barcelona Chair in Manhattan Home Design.

If you are considering investing in a Sofa Bed or a Daybed, both furniture pieces may bring you to relax and comfort, but, is convenient for you to differentiate very well what can you do with them.

Sofa beds and Daybeds are slightly different pieces that apply for slightly different purposes. Sofa beds are fully convertible pieces, while daybeds are static and serve only the way are presented (though some may have a trundled bed below).

So, a Sofa Bed will serve in the day as a full range sofa, and as a bed at night for guests. You will have to extract its trundled bed at night and save it in the morning.

With daybeds, it will always will show its bed function. You decide if you want it for afternoon snaps or for lounge nights, but always looking to recline and relax. Due to many models have that 3 sides frame (back and arms, like a sofa), you can sit very comfortable, too.

In both cases, not all sofa beds or daybeds are suitable for all spaces. They can be a little messy with all the sheets and pillows. Unless you look for a Barcelona Daybed. Elegant, sleeker, and comfortable, and suitable for the most exclusive spaces due to its beautiful design.

Learn more of the Barcelona Daybed in Manhattan Home Design.

An Ottoman is a very popular choice of décor. Used equally in living rooms and bedrooms, its versatility makes it a favorite of all décor lovers.
You will find it difficult that an Ottoman disappoints you, but there are two or three things to consider when you buy one.

First, there are a lot of models in Ottomans, with different functionalities. Why do you want an Ottoman? Do you want a relaxing spot to rest your feet on when arriving home? Or do you see your Ottoman as a coffee table to place some magazines?. Relaxing Ottomans are small and compact but bring beauty and can fill voids in your space.  Storage Ottomans are greater and can be used in several spaces like bedrooms and family rooms. The Barcelona Ottoman by Manhattan Home Design, for example, is compact, beautiful, and small, designed to bring beauty to your room while you rest your feet in there. It can be used as an occasional storage surface, for magazines, for example.

Second, measure. Some Ottomans are small and some have a considerable height and size, so be careful of buying something proportionate to your living room measures. If you want a relaxing Ottoman, it has to be smaller than the height of your favorite seat (sofa or chair), to really make you feel comfortable. But if you want an Ottoman to store or to use it as a center table, they can be pretty large. While they are rounded most of the time, and that favors a good circulation of people in your space, it can be a little messy if it’s too close to another side table or lamp.

Third, think in style. There are myriads of different Ottomans out there. But do they make your space a better place?.If your place is Mid Century Modern, for example, a Barcelona Ottoman fits perfectly because we are talking about the same style. Wooden furniture and bright colors are balanced with a solid, elegant leather piece.
Think, for example, in other styles. A Scandi bedroom with all the white walls and clear wood, won’t be well harmonized with a red velvet Ottoman. So it’s better to match your styles to obtain a good effect.

Why Choosing a Barcelona Ottoman?

Let’s share some thoughts about the convenience of a Barcelona Ottoman in functionality, space, and décor.

1. Versatile in functionality. An Ottoman works for you to relax. At the end of a hard workday, get a moment for you in your favorite chair, and chill your thoughts while your Ottoman supports your feet. Don’t you deserve it?. But this is not all of it. It’s perfect to offer a little surface storage spot ( for a couple of magazines).

2. Versatile in space. Who said that a Barcelona Ottoman belongs only to a living room?. Certainly, it fits very well as a spot for relaxation, but the Ottomans are very popular at the side of your bed as a support point for your feet. Living rooms, bedrooms and even outdoor decks are all spaces where the Barcelona Ottoman has the potential to complement as a decorative object or to fill an empty spot.

3. Versatile in décor. Do you have a room that is too dark, with a lot of wood panels, leather furniture, and a heavy environment?  Take a white Barcelona Ottoman and place it in the middle of the room. It will bring you a lighter vibe with elegance and style. But you can do it otherwise. If your room is excessively bright, or it features many white tones due to curtains, white walls, or clear furniture, you can use your Barcelona Ottoman to make an accent statement. With color choices from white to black or yellow, a dark Barcelona Ottoman is a good tool that adds balance to a white surrounded room. 

If you want to enjoy the experience of a great replica of the Barcelona Ottoman, don’t lose the opportunity and go to Manhattan Home Design, the best alternative in the market for replicas of Mid Century Modern Style.

One of the best ways to benefit your indoors and incorporate multiple benefits into it is by adding the right plants. Plants are excellent companions for life, as they contribute to physical and mental well-being, purify the environment, renew energies, and provide a very particular aesthetic touch. The art of bringing living nature to the spaces where you normally develop your daily life is called biophilic design. It can have a very positive influence on your emotions and thoughts, especially if you accompany your plants with a resting chair like the Flag Halyard Chair.

Stress deserves to be fought in every conceivable way, as it’s one of the poisons that destroy our life quality and make our routine more difficult. Placing a Flag Halyard Chair replica like the one from Manhattan Home Design will be a highly beneficial decision that you won’t regret. You only have to admire the characteristics of this design to understand that it’s a chair made for relaxation: its metal structure, its woven flag thread seat, its sheepskin surface, and its ample proportions make it the perfect tool to relax in the company of your plants.

Add a Flag Halyard Chair reproduction to your indoors full of beautiful plants, and you’ll be creating an ideal environment in which you’ll like to be at any time of day.

As we mentioned in our last article, the framework for most of the furniture work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, when the Barcelona Chair was created, covers the last years of the decade of the 20s, and nothing else was made. But it’s legacy for all these creations is still highly popular. Let’s take a look at the Brno Chair.

The Brno Chair (and the MR Chair) was designed from 1927 to 1929, by L. Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Roche, with the collaboration of Sergius Ruegenberg. They both had the same concept with some notable variations but always looking to transcend the classical four legs scheme. 

The Brno Chair was originally made for the Tugendhat Residence in Brno, Czech Republic. While it keeps the “C Frame” as structure, just like the MR Chair, it has some variations, as its arms are the upper side of the frame, and the seat is solid. Upholstered in leather, there are two versions of this chair: With tubular stainless steel and with flat stainless steel or chrome plated steel. The Brno Chair is known too as the MR50 Chair, and there is a later, most elaborated version named MR70, with a more structure back seat, while keeping the same principles. The Brno Chair is now a classic furniture chair, with very renditions all over the world. 

If you want to experience the beauty and functionality of Barcelona Chair, one of the greatest creations of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, don’t miss the opportunity and go to Manhattan Home Design, the best Online store in the replica’s market, where you can get a piece of design of high quality at really affordable prices.

Of course, the Barcelona Chair, and the Barcelona Collection had without a doubt a vast influence on the Interior Design World, but what about other works Did L. Mies van der Rohe, and its great collaborator, Lilly Roche? Are there other interesting, marvelous designs? The framework for most of the furniture work of van der Rohe covers the last years of the decade of the 20s. Neither was made before or after. But the legacy from that time is still highly popular. Let’s take a look at the other two creations from that period: The Brno Chair and the MR Chair.

The Brno Chair and the MR Chair were designed from 1927 to 1929, by L. Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Roche, with the collaboration of Sergius Ruegenberg. 

The MR Chair (also known as the Weissenhoff Chair), released in 1927 for the Weissenhoff International Exposition, and it has a original  curved – convex frame, made of steel. Its seat and back is made originally with wicker upholstery, which treatment was one of the special skills acquired by Lilly Roche. It’s a revolutionary concept of simplicity and beauty. Originally without arms, it has a version with arms support, too. 

If you want to experience the beauty and functionality of Barcelona Chair, one of the greatest creations of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, don’t miss the opportunity and go to Manhattan Home Design, the best Online store in the replica’s market, where you can get a piece of design of high quality at really affordable prices.

Where is the best place to buy your Barcelona Chair Replica?

If you are reading these lines, you probably know what “Replica” means in furniture, and what is Mid Century Modern.

You are probably looking for good quality, Mid Century Modern pieces to keep in your space (living room, bedroom). But you know that original pieces can be pricey. Try and look for designs that are accessible yet well-executed, where every detail has been taken care of. You will find that level of affordable excellence in Manhattan Home Design.

Since 2005, Manhattan Home Design has placed its name in NYC as one of the most successful online furniture dealers. This is not just a marketing statement. Big names in the business, like Houzz or eBay, to name a couple, rewarded the level of quality of Manhattan Home Design with acknowledgments like “Houzz Best of Service” or “eBay Top Rated Seller”. These rewards are a signal of a store focused on a quality endeavour and a commitment to style.

In Manhattan Home Design every replica is made following tightly the original design. The Barcelona Chair is a fine example of this effort. Beautifully crafted, its 100% Full Grain Premium-Italian leather upholstery is exclusively hand-picked by expert mid-century craftsmen. Its cushion surface features individually cut and sewn leather panels for optimum detailing.

But there is more than a decided effort in manufacture in Manhattan Home Design. Online stores must really find a way to stand out and make its own mark in a market where everything seems the same. An this is what Manhattan Home Design does to reafirm its well reputed place in the market

Quality Furniture / Quality On Line

Besides its commitment with high quality replicas furniture, Manhattan Home Design takes care of the whole sales experience to make it equal or better than the traditional physical process. To obtain this response, some little but great details are used to guarantee a complete sales experience.

A Great NYC Showroom. If you are near NYC, and you want to see the magic by yourself, dont think it twice and come to our Showroom, where you will find your Barcelona Chair among other icons of Mid Century Modern. In our Showroom you have the oportunity not only of watch closely your beloved Barcelona Replica, but to get in touch with other pieces of furniture and the world of Mid Century Modern style.
Don’t take a blind decision. With its policy of free swatches, Manhattan Home Design makes easy for you to take a decision. Get some samples of your favorite piece to get that “touch and feel” effect, and be confident that your current choice is what really makes you feel good.

Manhattan Home Design is one of the best alternatives in online furniture stores. It has entire design lines of high end, high quality products, like the Barcelona Chair, or the Barcelona Bench.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see the best furniture showroom in NYC. In our Manhattan Home Design Showroom, you will get that touch and feel that you need to take the final step and purchase your beloved Barcelona Chair Replica.
With a location more than convenient, the Manhattan Home Design Room allows you, not only to get to know your preferred furniture options but even to save big in shipping if you order in our showroom and you’re living 50 miles around our spot. A really great deal.
While our high-resolution pics let you see and select the items of your dreams, visiting our showroom is a unique opportunity too, to get first-hand info about design tricks, the new trends, and the rest of the high-quality pieces that Manhattan Home Design has for the smart client.
From Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 6 pm, take the right path, and visit us here. We’ll make you feel that your time was well invested.
Keep informed about the COVID 19 restrictions, before getting out. Your trip will be rewarding and full of surprises and offers. Manhattan Home Design and the famous Barcelona Chair Replica are waiting for you. See you there!