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Rules & Elements You Can Use To Complement Your Modern Sofa (II/II)

In the previous blog, we talked about one of the main rules you should follow when decorating with modern sofas. Now we’ll continue to show you other rules and we introduce you to the main elements people normally use to decorate their modern sofa. Let’s get started.

Don’t place the sofa against the wall

Believe it or not, this is a very common mistake. By placing the sofas against the wall, you will create a wrong or an unwanted illusion of a small space. Instead, try placing them away from the walls, leaving even a slight gap between the wall and the back of the cabinet.

Use throw pillows to decorate 

Pillows may seem a bit useless to some people, but in fact, they are not! These elements are the ones that can perfectly complement sofas such as a Le Corbusier LC2 sofa or a Florence Knoll sofa. Even if they are modern or not, a cushion with an attractive design can make a difference.

Plants are your best friends

Decorate your LC3 sofa with plants around it. They add a natural and aesthetic touch.

Rules & Elements You Can Use To Complement Your Modern Sofa (I/II)

Getting the design of your dreams requires a lot of planning and determination. Just choosing the sofa that will be the protagonist of your living room is an arduous task. However, this arduous task does not end there. After purchasing your dream sofa, it is necessary to follow a series of rules to position and place your modern sofa in the most aesthetic and optimal way possible. Today we will show you just a few rules that will be very useful when finalizing your living room design. We will also show you which elements combine well with a modern sofa such as the Florence Knoll sofa or the Le Corbusier sofa. Let us begin!

Balance your shapes and colors

This is the first rule you should follow when arranging and decorating with your modern sofa. What balance means is to well distribute the elements that are placed in a space. Try to not group all small pieces in one place and all the big ones in another. On the contrary, try to mix them up! For example, if you have a Florence Knoll sofa, you can opt for a rounded table due to its square form.

Click to know the elements to complement your modern sofa.

Sofa or Modular?

Since the last decade, Modular solutions have been very popular in most of the American homes. The big numbers in the market tell us that sectionals are the preferred option right now. Nevertheless, this is not as much a change of preferences, than one adjustment on some groups of homeowners that require a more customized solution.

This has to do with the several restrains of most of the current customers of furniture and home owners today. The market of furniture has changed in the last decades, reflecting the changes of real estate and the way of living of most Americans.

Nowadays, people has smaller families, living in smaller houses and adjusting its demands of furniture. That big Chesterfield sofa is not anymore the last desire of most home owners in need of beautiful, comfortable but practical solutions. That’s why modular, sectional solutions are on the rise, like the Eastwood Sofa. Nevertheless, classic options like the Barcelona Sofa, have always a niche on the market due to to the enthusiasm for Mid Century Modern style design.

Go to Barcelona Design, the best online store to buy Mid Century Modern furniture, and make your purchase in the safety and comfort of your home (don’t forget your code: NEWYOU). Besides, with free shipping, same day with FedEx, what could be better?

The Best of the Year is yet to Come with your Barcelona Daybed

If you want to start a fresh new year with a firm statement, nothing states it better than new furniture for a new place. In Barcelona Design we are ready to help you with the best offers in Sofas, Chairs, Tables, and Storage solutions for your home and home office.  A new start with classic pieces of design is a way to look forward with your feet firmly down to earth.

The Barcelona Daybed is an irresistible offer, with an Extra Ordinary 75% Off. Don’t miss the opportunity of bring home the beauty and convenience of a  piece of Mid Century Modern Style. The Barcelona Daybed is a beautiful way of bring comfort and elegance to your living room.

The market of replicas is the perfect alternative for people looking for high-quality design pieces at affordable prices. The Barcelona Design rendition of the Barcelona Daybed is by far the best of the market in terms of value-quality relation, thanks to its premium quality materials, and its careful pre assembly process.                                                                                                                            Go to Barcelona Design, the best online store to buy Mid Century Modern furniture, and make your purchase in the safety and comfort of your home. Don’t forget your code: NEWYOU. Besides, with free shipping, same day with FedEx, what could be better?

The Best of the Year is yet to Come with your Barcelona Loveseat

If you want to start a fresh new year with a firm statement, nothing states it better that new furniture for a new place. In Barcelona Design we are ready to help you with the best offers in Sofas, Chairs, Tables and Storage solutions for your home and home office.  A new start with classic pieces of design is a way to look forward with your feet firmly down to earth.

The Barcelona Loveseat is an irresistible offer, with an Extra Ordinary 53% Off. Don’t miss the opportunity to bring home the beauty and convenience of a  piece of Mid Century Modern Style. 

The market of replicas is the perfect alternative for people looking for high quality design pieces at affordable prices. The Barcelona Design rendition of the Barcelona Loveseat  is by far the best of the market in terms of value-quality relation, thanks to the its premium quality materials, and  its careful pre assembly process. Loveseats are on the rise, since people is looking for more practical, sleeker solutions for small places.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Go to Barcelona Design, the best online store to buy Mid Century Modern furniture, and make your purchase in the safety and comfort of your home. Don’t forget your code: NEWYOU. Besides, with free shipping, same day with FedEx, what could be better?

The 3 Revolutionary Features of the Barcelona Chair

Why was the Barcelona Collection that revolutionary?

Formed by the iconic Barcelona Chair, Barcelona Sofa, Barcelona Loveseat, and by the Barcelona Ottoman and Barcelona Table, the Barcelona Collection was an authentic breakthrough in the world of design back in 1929. Nevertheless, someone may say that the principles accepted in 1929 for a good design have changed since then. But according to the prolonged success and growing popularity of this pieces in the world of furniture even today, the universality if this principles is still relevant. What are these principles?

  1. Functionality over design. The whole structure of a good design is directed to solve a problem or necessity. Le Corbusier, an outstanding Mid Century Modern Designer, used to say that good furniture should function as a natural extension of the human body, so the shapes and textures have to be natural and harmonic too.
  2. Minimal ornament. As a direct consequence of the previous principle, ornaments are no relevant in a very good design. This was a point of hard confrontation with the classical order, where ornaments were considered an important aspect of any design. 
  3. Experimental materials. Another point of rupture with the past, the criteria to choose good materials whether for a building or a piece of furniture, has to be its convenience, cost, and beauty, in that order, and not otherwise. Exotic materials. luxury fabrics weren’t welcomed. This is why Mid Century Modern is associated with industrial materials and textures.

Go to Barcelona Design, the best online store to buy Mid Century Modern furniture, and make your purchase of your Barcelona Chair Replica in the safety and comfort of your home (don’t forget your code: NEWYOU). Besides, with free shipping, same day with FedEx, what could be better?

How To Choose The Perfect Area Rug For Your Tulip Table?

If the Tulip table is already a relevant part of your layout, it’s probably time to find the perfect area rug for it. Assuming that you’ve chosen one of the models that you can use as a coffee table due to its appropriate dimensions and height since, in reality, many tables are called by that name that the great Eero Saarinen brought to the world. There’s no doubt what a difference a properly chosen area rug can make within an environment.

In the first place, it’s recommended that the area rug play an important role in the color scheme of the compartment because, many times, the rugs are the ones that help to generate a favorable chromatic contrast. For example, if your living room’s floor plan has a dark finish, an area rug of light color, pastel tones, or warm undertones can be a good way to contrast it.

It can be a rug of flat color or with prints. If you’ve placed a black Tulip table, choosing also a dark carpet doesn’t seem to be the most convenient in that case, right? On the contrary, a rug of a light shade can generate a very elegant and pleasant effect on the eye.

Remember that a Tulip table replica like the one from Manhattan Home Design is a wise, affordable, and convenient choice that you can match with your area rug. Additionally, you can choose between different types of materials to give more coherence to the place, whether you have selected MCM, Scandinavian, Boho, contemporary, Transitional, or any other decorating style. Synthetic, wool, cotton, or even recyclable rugs can work very well, depending on the case.

No matter which area rug you choose, you can rest assured that it will look great with your Tulip table and transform your surroundings into a charming modern space.

The Barcelona Chair Replica, the Smart Choice

In a market full of choices, some pieces of furniture are considered like too expensive, without really taking in into consideration the different alternatives, but a Replica, like a Barcelona Chair Replica, is the best choice four your place. Let’s talk about it.

The Barcelona Chair and the Replica’s Market

The emergence of Mid Century Modern in end of the 1990s revealed a demand for design furniture that couldn’t be satisfied by the regular providers. Mid Century Modern became so popular that traditional houses wouldn’t cop the demand;  and on the other side, low cost stores were not in capacity to attend it with the standard of quality requested. 

Another choice was needed. The market of replicas took over.  With a absolute commitment with quality  and without the need of paying for license fees or the use of the brand, the replicas manufacturers provide renderings of the best quality at affordable prices .

 If you want to experience all the comfort and beauty of the exceptional Barcelona Collection, don’t miss the chance in Manhattan Home Design, the authorized and trusted store for high-quality replicas of Mid Century Modern Style. In Manhattan Home Design there is a true commitment to the original standard of design and excellent support service.

A Barcelona Chair Suits more Than One Style

Hat Does a Tudor and Cottage antique house has to do with a couple of Barcelona Chairs? They are related through elegance and class.

In a recent especialized note, we see how in a venerable 100 years old Tudor – Cottage in NYC, the designer in charge choose the Barcelona Chairs as one of the finest elements of its living room.

The antique house has the best of cottage style. Steeply pitched roof, prominent stone-and-brick chimney, and cozy bedrooms. In the living room, a Lucite-and-brass coffee table nails the room with a couple of white Barcelona Chairs, under a Sputnik – Style Chandelier

Created in 1929 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as an icon of the Modernism and Mid Century Modern movements, the Barcelona Chair is image of a very specific moment of history of Interior Design, along with the Eames Chair, the Noguchi Table and other creations.

Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop using it in the middle of arrangements of quite different styles. That’s is the case with a recent redo published in a especialized magazine.

For inspo, info and great offers in furniture, don’t miss the oportunity in Barcelona Design, the alternative for Mid Century Modern style furniture, with masterpieces like the Barcelona Sofa  or the Hans Wegner Shell Chair

Chairs You Probably Don’t Know Exist | From Mid-Century To Modern Chairs (II/II)

In the previous post, we talked about the first chair on the list; the Shell chair. We explained the reason for its structure and how its style has been considered avant-garde for many years. Now is the time to show you how this chair can totally change the look of a room and we will get to know the other two chairs that you probably haven’t seen before. Let’s continue!

How can you decorate with a Shell Chair?

Consider that this chair should be the focal point in the room, so try to place it in a central place or close to a fireplace in order to enhance the area. let’s take a look at an example of designs:

Source: Photo by @jenniferhughesphoto for @ruemagazine

The Manta Chair is a rare but gorgeous chair

Source: Deconiche from Pinterest

This modern and abstract chair will leave everyone speechless. Trying to understand it can cost you a bit, but if we are sure of something, it is that it will attract the attention of all eyes. This chair can be positioned in the same way as the Shell chair. Remember that a good way to show your personality is to strategically position pieces like this one.

If you like the wood, the Diwani Chair is for you!

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