Italian leather sofas: atmosphere of past ages

An Italian leather sofa can be the absolute protagonist of a sitting room, simply by definition. Or better: the sofa IS the sitting room, it has the right to be.

The very concept of sitting room was born from leather sofas: well, maybe is not a historically correct statement but it's very real in the collective imagination.

Especially if we think about those places, smoky and blurred but just for that deeply fascinating, that gave life to our modern sitting rooms. In the past, sitting rooms where elected places, where people met to talk, create and breathe art. A meeting place for people who would, in the future, become famous.

That was the 18th century, but also the 19th century. Inside sitting rooms History was written and revolutions were planned: like the French Revolution in 1789 or the Neapolitan one, in 1799, less well known but still extremely radical.

Inside sitting rooms new ways of life were created: in sitting rooms people were smoking, creating a new trend, playing and wearing clothes that would soon become fashion.

Inside sitting rooms poems were written; songs and music were composed and heard. And the people there, comfortably seated on those sofas (maybe made of leather) enjoyed those musics directly from the hands of famous artists. And I'm talking about Rossini, Mozart, Verdi.

Inside sitting rooms stories and backgrounds took place; events that maybe you can't find nowadays in books, but that shocked whole lives and souls: how many relationships, meetings, crossing of paths... Sitting rooms were the social life of that time, the only entertainment available, sitting rooms were freedom.

I can see them, can't you? Mysterious characters plotting against each other, or funny ones that laugh, read poems behind a light smoke screen, sitting on a Diamond sofa with black leather cover (without chromed steel feet obviously!) with its imposing presence and its lived and almost unkempt leather.

I can hear the notes of "Péchés de vieillesse" coming from the fingers of an old Rossini, in his home near Paris, while I'm seating on a Chester tufted leather sofa.

And finally, I'm picturing Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca and Francesco Caracciolo, writing the manifest of the Neapolitan Revolution, while seating on the Temple sofa with reclining headrest.

Don't you think that these sofas are able to recall another world? Another atmosphere, way different from your usual sitting room? Can't you smell the same freedom, social life, history of those times, just by possessing a sofa like that?

Modern Italian rugs and carpets: tradition meets creativity

Rugs come from a charming and glorious yet cultural distant past. However, during the centuries, they were able to adapt themselves to a more modern way of life and above all to a contemporary western style: modern Italian rugs can be part of a category on their own, far away from traditional or oriental rugs and carpets.

Rugs were born for two main purposes: to warm and to decorate. There are several types of rugs and carpets and we can distinguish them according to their material, manufacturing process, shape, measures and of course according to their decorations and colours. Rugs are nowadays part of an extremely variegated world where it's practically impossible to categorize them into easily recognizable symbols : modern Italian rugs and carpets are born from the pure imagination of their creators and from the functionality that the modern techniques can give them.

These modern Italian rugs are even more charming with big measures, able in this way to attract the look of everybody, even more that other furniture pieces that usually have more importance.

The rug has to be placed in a strategic position according to its role; for example, if we want a rug to give importance to the surrounding environment we will wisely choose the colours and patterns we wish to match with the furniture, enriching in this way rooms that would otherwise appear rather featureless.

So let's boldly use modern rugs and carpets: under the dining room table, in the middle of the sitting room, in the play area of the kids room, to brighten up the hall or in the bedroom in front of the bed. The whole house will be, in this way, decorated with a easily recognizable link, giving at the same time a high impact effect.

Butterfly inlaid rug, ideal both for the living room and the kids bedroom. Its huge images (the important is not to cover the rug with too many furniture pieces!) remind the pattern of those Romans mosaic used as floors in their splendid villas.

Carré viscose and wool rug is perfect for every kind of environments, even under the dining table, and can give character to every bare room.

Dalia square rug by Calligaris reminds the tradition of floral patterns, born centuries ago, but designed in strongly contemporary way and able to characterize with its strong visual impact a whole environment.

Chic rug with shaped corner couldn't have a better name, because its charm is really astonishing: the design is realized with three different thicknesses and has an extremely elegant protrusion on a corner; the decoration is in this way not only impressed on the surface but is an integral part of the rug itself becoming a sort of sculpture.

Italian design glass round tables: the Outer Space in your house

Italian design round or oval glass tables define a strong, modern and charming style, thanks to the elegance of their shape and to the lightness that their look can convey.

Suspended into time and in air, design round glass tables seem to come from other worlds, where dimensions are not just 3, nor 2 or 4, as imagined in that brilliant book called "Flatland". Design round glass tables come from a fifth dimension made of plastic and lightness, made of magical transparencies.

Round shapes invite the eye to enjoy perfect lines and conviviality; infact, a round or oval table allows all the guests to chat face to face while no one prevails on the other. In the end that was the idea of King Arthur's Round Table, where everyone is the same.

Round shapes also recall peculiar chairs, a field where design gives life every day, as it did in the past, to unique and unforgettable items, particular and extremely beautiful. In this way imagination can roam free and create every kind of combinations.

Round shapes can infuse new life to a room that has been neglected for a very long time: the dining room. Nowadays dining rooms are always hidden in the darkest corners of a house, sacrificed in the name of the lack of space.

However, if we take a look at a table with another world characteristics, we can really decide to make a beautiful and shining dining room, maybe sacrificing some other room like the bedroom.

What brings us up to another dimension is the glass transparency: infact it helps us notice the waves and designs of peculiar legs, as in the Don Juan table with its spectacular base made of Vicenza Stone and characterized by a shape reminding a spurt of water turned into stone. The transparency gives a sensation of unbearable lightness of being, that feeling of perfection and harmony.

Have a look at Coral oval elegant table: doesn't it look like coming from Outer Space? Its legs in white (or black) lacquered polyurethane look like antennas belonging to some kind of superior being while the glass top with sandblasted shape is a perfect elegant dress falling on those charming legs.

Adjustable Satellite table with round top has a name that strongly points at its outer space origin: the metal base and the lacquered leg, increase the sensation of light, perfection and unknown brightness.

Finally, what can we say about the extraordinary Barone round glass table? Its sabre legs, in the chromed version, remind crossed swords chasing each other. The legs, together with the glass top and the perfect round shape, make Barone round table shiny, unreachable, infallible.

Tables came to the earth inside spaceships made of genius and taste, design and resistant materials. Tables ready for everything.

Dining Room with a gothic and kitsch style

Furnishing a kitsch dining room, with Gothic and Noir tones, is not for everybody. You need a great deal of conviction, character and firmness, because a style like that can be misunderstood. Kitsch style is, infact, only for the people who know how to wear it; as a dress, as an attitude or as a posture. But it can, at the same time, generate intense feelings, sometimes even contrasting, but utterly and terribly strong. Because that's what it does, it plays with opposites and defies vanity.

A kitsch and Gothic style brings the shadows of the past in its shapes, it meets with the modernity of the materials and, in some particular decorations, it comes along with an extreme feminism that excludes the masculine taste and merges with the fascination for dark colours, mystery and an ironic horror. Do you remember the Addams Family?

Well in this kind of style there's a little bit of Morticia, but also a little bit of Audrey Hepburn, thanks to necessary frippery, a strong pictorial elegance and a little bit of sense of humour. Do you want to know what I'm talking about? Do you want to SEE what I'm talking about? Very well, here we go.

A dining room is perfect for this kind of stylistic interpretations, eccentric and out of the ordinary: it's an extremely hybrid zone, often lost between the kitchen, the living room and sitting room, confused inside an open space, hidden in a narrow corner. But with the help of a strong style, as the one we're talking about, it can easily become the protagonist of your house.

So, here it is the main character of a feminine dining room, defined by a quite classical verve, a luxury atmosphere and a touch of "noir". We can compare it to a black widow, eager and vengeful: that's the Cleo sideboard with Swarovski handles and pink ice dream fronts. Just imagine it together with a silver frame and a black chandelier, completing, in this way, the mystery of your dining room.

Another protagonist of a kitsch style dining room are the chairs: with high big backs, that almost give you a sort of reverential awe coming from past ages, or also with a round, oval shape like those frames used in the past to frame old pictures.

Vanilla upholstered chair in steel and leather, with a strong black colour, would be perfect as a throne contrasting the pink colour of the sideboard.

Berta chair from Louis XVI collection in beech solid wood clearly reminds, thanks to the name and material, the period of time stated by its name but not in a strictly way; infact the classic lines are combined with modern decorations and colours, perfectly suitable for a Gothic-kitsch style.

Last but not least, we need a design table, even if in this case it will merely act as a background. For this reason it will be characterized by simple and regular lines, but with one certain detail: it has to be black. Monday Big table with glass top , for example, would be the ideal choice.

Storage unit modular elements: one function, thousand styles

Modular Storage Units are the true house furniture pieces, specifically born to create your home furniture, to make your rooms a neat and functional place. Because in the end that's the reason why furniture pieces were created in the down of time: hold objects.

If you happen to come upon some multi functional piece of furniture, characterized by a single soul but several lives, you will notice right away that I'm talking about something completely different, I'd say opposite: several shapes, several styles, several different furniture with the only fundamental function of holding stuff, everyday objects, precious objects, memories, useful objects.

Everything in a house has to be "held" somewhere, with the exception of some rare, well studied cases when we want to show our stuff. Tableware, linen, clothes, technological objects, books, accessories, shoes, all we have in our house has to be contained in a storage unit.

Wardrobes, dressers, modular elements are furniture pieces that can hold a lot of objects. But they're not the only one, we also have other characters, maybe smaller, maybe quieter, but that can hide a huge attraction: I'm talking about wall units, drawer chests, benches. Elements that can usually be found in the busiest room of the house: the living room.

Let's have a look for example at the Inbox Square wall units by Calligaris that, thanks to the versatility of their colours and their extreme modularity can really face every kind of needs and give life to unprecedented aesthetic shapes acting like the real protagonists of your environments.

Trequarti wall storage unit is another storage unit that immediately catches the eye, thanks to the light asymmetry of its shape, also reminded by the name (Trequarti means three-fourths in Italian).

Inbox drawer chest by Calligaris is, on the other end, one of those modular elements that usually pass unnoticed, but that can give a touch of elegance and charm to a more attentive eye.

Design Mirrors: reflecting the world we live in

The mirror is great piece of furniture and what is even better is that it reflects and frames our world like a work of art.

An Italian design mirror is a house element that, in the wake of aestheticism and philosophy, inspired endless stories, theories and games (illusion games, reality distortion...). A mirror can do everything: can give us a truthful image of ourselves or a distorted one, it can tell us the truth or lie. The one thing it cannot do is looking within our soul.

Or maybe not. I think a mirror can do that too, and it can do it in two ways: the first one is to consider a mirror something way more important than the rest: if we decide to entrap our soul inside it, like Dorian Gray did, we will end up seeing nothing more than our reflection and losing ourselves inside it, as Narcissus did a while ago.

The second one is, more cathartic and creative, to place the mirror in a strategic place inside our house and let it reflect in the most truthful way our soul, painted and spread on the walls, furniture, accessories and objects. Infact, if we have created our house following our image and our most intimate personality, the mirror could do nothing but give that personality back to us, in an even clearer image compared to what our eyes usually see.

It's entirely a question of choosing the right Italian design mirror and then find out where to put it; in this way it can reflect the real nature of our home-soul and also, if necessary or if we desire, it can visually expand the surrounding space. A mirror, all by itself, is able to create a so called "optical illusion", magically doubling the room at your disposal.

Fold mirror by Calligaris, for example, can perfectly be used for expanding the visual space, as I said before, especially if approached to other Fold mirrors; allowing the soul of the other furniture pieces to be clearly visible.

Emerald octagonal mirror, is going to give a touch of luxury to your house but most importantly, thanks to its mirrored glass frame, it will be able to reflect your environment from different fragmented point of views.

Aurora oval mirror with iron decorations bring us back to the past, to that fairytale world placed out of time, a world where Cinderella and Sleepy Beauty really exist, a word of magic where mirrors always reflect the truth.

Design Armchairs: Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen

The evocative Egg Chair design armchair is one of the most distinctive pieces of design, an icon of a comfortable and aesthetically pleasing environment

Egg Chair was designed by the well-known designer Arne Jacobsen in 1958 to furnish the exclusive Royal SAS Hotel in Copenhagen becoming immediately famous as the first swivel covered and upholstered chair, together with Swan Chair.

The evocative name "Egg" refers to its rounded shape, or viceversa: in this case we can correctly say we don't know which came first, the chicken or the egg.

You just need to know that the egg, as a mystic concept, sometimes related to religion or philosphy is characterized by a particular shape, that has inspired and is inspiring nowadays designers, as metaphor of life.

In Jacobsen's mind, Egg Chair is believed to represent a shell as protection for men, creating a comfortable and intimate shelter.

Conceived as sofa, Egg Chair seems to be inspired by Eero Saarinen and his Womb Chair, even if lot of people support the idea Jacobsen's version is a more completed project.

Object of desire for all design addicted, Egg Chair keeps glamour and elegance, suspended between avanguard and the sophisticated cosmopolitan style, and it brings its futuristic spirit in all rooms.

Egg Chair is available with eco-leather or leather cover, in a lot of endless colours, to turn your living room, your office, your bedroom into a private and homely relaxing room.

Custom Italian chaise longues: a place for rest and memories

When you buy a chaise longue you also bring home a piece of History. A design chaise longue accords you a great degree of relaxation while bearing an important name.

Chaise longue: an antique name for a modern piece of furniture; an antique furniture with a modern look.

Chaise longue history finds its origin in the unforgettable lines of antique seats, and if we look carefully we can still notice them in some empty corners of antique residences, memories of past ages.

I wonder how many things a chaise longue had seen during its history; how many faces it carefully observed, how many bodies it welcomed and how many love affairs it concealed or, at the contrary, revealed. A direct offspring of ottomans and asymmetric veilleuse from French 18th Century, niece of fainting sofas from the beginning of the 19th Century, sister of the dormeuse, the chaise longue brings with itself a huge genetic memory, mysterious as well as fascinating.

A design chaise longue is characterized by curvy lines, expressly made to help rest and to follow the body while relaxing; a modern essence that doesn't forget its antique ancestors. This dualism is, nowadays, expressed by new materials that fit like new clothes on young people, discovering a brand new style.

Please, come and take a look with me at some of these custom Italian chaise longues, and be aware that by taking one at home with you, you will also take a whole series of memories, adventures, betrayals and madness belonging to the past; a wonderful mix we call History.

The first in line is, without a doubt, Le Corbusier chaise longue; excellent example of the "resting machine", starting point of a long new history, written by modern design. The cover is available in leather or cavallino leather and in different colours that gives an exotic and classic touch with no equal.

Sylvester upholstered leather chaise longue, the more elegant and extreme evolution of méridienne antique lines, is covered in leather and has precious and delicate chromed metal details.

Van der Rohe chaise longue reaches the extreme point where essentiality is mandatory and where there's no need for clothes, crinolines, silks from antique ages anymore: there's only what you need to rest completely at ease, dreaming about the past.

Table and Floor Lamps: warm and soft atmospheres

Table and floor lamps are essential furniture accessories to create the right atmosphere as well as to enlighten different areas of your home. Relaxing areas, reading areas or home office areas can be einlightened by this kind of lamps, easy to be assembled and to be moved near a socket.

Also because, according to the chosen materials, lamps can become wonderful colourful light sources. To give life to warm atmospheres, like something between mistery and reality, you should dare with orange or red colours.To create relaxing atmospheres, green or light blue lights are the most suitable: they are cold colours, that help your mind to relax a bit.

Where putting your lamp? Simply! Wherever you want!

Table lamps find their space easily: the writing desk in an office or on the nightstand, used during the evening and night, a private environment, an extremely privileged place,that accompanies us towards the end of the day and Morfeo's arms.

On the other hand, floor lamps are suitable for relaxing or reading areas, for example near an armchair or a sofa; moreover, floor lamps can enlighten shady areas, darker, less reassuring corners. In this case our lamp function is to make these spaces good looking and pleasant.

Raduga floor Lamp by Cattelan is for example a top seller: the perfect furniture accessory to enrich your living area, allowing to create a soft atmosphere, but also to watch Tv or to chat with friends. Key of success of Raduga lamp is the particular arched shape and the square base, available in marble.

Cindy design table lamp by Kartell, with its vintage shape, inspired to the typical abat-jour of 70s, look wonderful in a bedroom or as accent for a sideboard.

Lastly, Orion oval lamp by Calligaris: available both as floor and table lamp, it represents the ideal solution for modern and young living rooms. Thanks to its oval shape and materials ( painted metal and methacrylate), Orion makes literally your guests and relatives dive into a bath of vitality, evoking far far places and seasons.

Minimal design bookcases: a pleasant contradiction

"Minimal" Italian design bookcases hold a slight contradiction within themselves: if you think about it, a bookcase cannot be by definition a minimal piece of furniture or at least it doesn't completely respond to the widely used standards of this style that has became so famous nowadays.

The main purpose of a bookcase if, obviously, to hold and keep sorted several objects, especially books; but clearly the final effect is far from what we expect a minimal furniture to be. The mere fact of filling and showing objects all at once, transform a design bookcase in something completely opposite to minimal. The only kind of bookcase that may, in a way, elude this concept is a bookcase with doors, but in this case we are also quite distant to the standard idea we have of a bookcase.

However, there are Italian design bookcases that show a minimalist soul, not only in the final effect you will get once they're filled, but also in the very concept of their structural lines. We can call them inherently minimal, because they respond to determined standards and rules.

And which are these determined standards and rules? Well, first of all minimalism needs essentiality, basically only what it's strictly necessary, without frills. For examples clean and regular lines, with a precise geometry; neutral colours, avoiding too bright tones; materials which are either visually light, as glass, or treated in a way that they reflect the environment around and expand the visual space even more.

Chicago glass wall bookcase is the perfect example of a minimal and essential piece of furniture: transparent glass shelves, support reduced to the minimum and fastened to the wall. This bookcase can perfectly be disguised with elegance in the surrounding environment, giving all the emphasis and attention to books and objects.

Fifty modular wall bookcase embodies minimalism in another way: its shelves comes out of the wall like pushed by an invisible hand that also mould them in different shapes. The result is a furniture piece with essential lines and structure.

Dna free standing design bookcase expresses yet another idea; even though, thanks to its evocative shape, Dna gives life to real imaginative and pronounced book combinations, is still in fact composed by essential elements. A central support and shelves at different heights, with reduced and already-established measures. A piece of furniture designed in this way will produce irresistible combinations of order and disorder, that can give to nice houses an unmistakable flavour.

Stone Tables and Furniture Accessories: Italian hand-crafted products

Today I want to speak with you about Italian tables and furniture accessories made of stone by LDM Italia.

LDM Italia is the acronym for Laboratorio del Marmo : a Venetian hand-crafted workshop, that has made furnishing accessoires and designer pieces in Vicenza Stone since 1973.

Artists, architects and famous designers of LDM have been asked to interpret a new way of using stone materials in contemporary house interiors, distancing from the tradional role of decoration and becoming a real protagonist of modern and design furniture.

Vicenza Stone is a sedimentary rock. It is characterized by the presence of fossils, which enhance its materiality and make the works of art more precious .The rock is mined from the Berici hills,in Veneto.

This type of rock offers both excellent structural qualities and, at the same time, a very expressive design.This is also the example of the wonderful Venetian villas, designed by the architect Andrea Palladio in the 16th century.

The sculptures, inspired by classical principles, are hand-carved in workshops according to traditional techniques and for this reason each sculpture is a unique piece, offering the additional value without being mass-produced.

Taking a clay model as reference, after roughing out, the object is finally sculptured in every detail. Finishing consists in rasping the surface that the chisel cut roughly

Stone tables by LDM Italia differ from other modern elements for essential and simple shapes, for elegant and refined lines.

Have a look for example at Samurai glass and stone table, with an hand-made stone sculpture as base, that supports a rectangular glass table. The stone sculpture made of White Vicenza stone reminds in shape paper-folding and the typical Japanes art.

Alex Wood table is characterized by a Vicenza stone base, while the top is in wood, available in several essence, like walnut, cherry-wood or wengè. This design table stands out for the original matching of stone with wood.

For those who love round tops to place in the middle of a living room, I suggest Arcipelago round stone table. Its main feature is the light, that passes through the engraved wave.

And why not daring with a stone bookcase? The right choice is QB stackable stone bookcase, composed by stone modules to combine in endless compositions according to your needs.

Italian design wooden beds: for a warm winter

Italian design wooden beds are a guarantee of quality and aesthetic pleasure. They can, infact, create the winter warm atmosphere that we all look for during the cold season, a warm comfort where to take refuge and doze off.

Winter is very close and the only way to face this charming but cold season is to think about all the beautiful things that autumn and winter are bringing along. The first thing that pops into my mind is a warm and comfortable design bed where I can take refuge when outside is raining, or snowing or is freezing cold. Is there anything more pleasant than that?

And can you find something more evocative than a design wooden bed, strong, solid and enveloping? Wooden beds represent the peak of comfort: they connect us to our Earth, they remind us of our History, they transmit stability and, as I said, warmth.

The pleasure of touching wood with the fingers, to feel it polished under the fingertips, to smell its characteristic scent through the nostrils, to observe the natural decoration of its veins: these luxuries are all affordable but not less precious, luxuries we can enjoy every day in our bedroom.

The bedroom is the environment that can give us right away the idea of a restful, calm, relaxed space and there's no other material that can pass on all these feelings better than wood.

Not to mention the delight of choosing a wood essence; the real ecstasy of wood aesthetic is being able to choose among different colours, shades, patterns, each with its own emotional power. And the thing that makes this choice even more fascinating is the fact that wood, especially if used for a bed, can be matched with every furniture style: from classic to modern, from oriental to contemporary.

And is the combination wood-modern furniture that perfectly embodies the idea of a welcoming and warm refuge, also with the help of soft blankets and beautiful sheets.

Divine wooden bed with double headboard is the emblem of "a midwinter rainy day's dream": made even more comfortable thanks to the cushion realized especially for this model. Divine bed perfectly fits the idea of refuge with its slightly enveloping shape.

Alia Wood design bed is available in cherry-wood essence and is an explicit recall of the warm and cosy concept of family: it reminds of tales told around a fireplace or fairy-tales before bed.

Fushido bed in dark oak with sliding headboard, is the emblem of wood but with a modern appeal, winking at an Oriental style.

Elfo bed is characterized by a curved headboard and by polished and modern lines. The wood essence, in this case, helps making the whole bed structure warmer and comforting.

Design table and chairs: love at first sight

The word table cannot exist without the word chair: the combination between the two words is as binding as that of the two furniture.

Can you imagine a room with a table but without chairs? And what about chairs without table? Don't they look like wandering entities in the most improbable rooms of your home?

Table and chairs are the two halves of the same essence: divided after the birth, forever joined in love. A love at first sight between table and chair but also between them and us as well. The first glance plays an important role, you know, but the result of this visual match comes from a structural analysis.

A perfect marriage between design tables and chairs originates from different factors; crucial elements are the materials, their visual effect, their solidity, the colours and lastly the shapes. Either contasting or matching, all these factors must fit together and at least two of them must be the same, even if the others strongly contrast.

For example, if they differ for colour and materials, they must share at least a common shape (with a round or oval table, the chairs will slightly curve on the back and on the legs); on the other hand, if shape and materials are different, the colours should homogenize, drawing on furniture accessories or shades, that offer us a great choice of nuances.

But table and chairs can also share the same features: at this point, we are talking about the two halves of the same essence anymore, but about an undivided essence! Let me explain you: if tables and chairs are chacterized by the same style, same materials, same colours, same shape, probably they will be born from the same collection, from the same designer's mind.

Performance table and Irony sled chairs by Calligaris are a perfect example: materials, wood and glossy white lacquer, the colours and shapes (linear but softned by some roundensses), combine perfectly and the harmony is guaranteed.

In spite of their "marriage", Crossroad extensible table by Calligaris and Irony chairs can join with other different furniture, without loosing their glamour: as outstanding example keep in mind Crossroad table with Irony chairs.

On the other hand, if you are looking for contrast, Barone round table by Bontempi with crossed sabre and Shark stackable chairs by Bontempi fit properly: same materials for the chromed structure, same square shape, but contrasting colours thanks to the glass table top and the upholstered chairs.

Lastly, if you prefer a strong contrast, where the unique common element between the two elements is practically imperceptible, Valentinox marble table and Margot hide leather chair by Cattelan are what you need: light and transparent glass, stainless steel and Carrara marble contrast with coloured hide leather. For an absolutely elegant mix!

Italian wrought iron beds: a fairy tale in your bedroom

Almost every girl in the world shares the dream of being a loving and beautiful princess... the main character of a romantic fairy tale. A tale where a charming prince experiences great and dangerous adventures in order to save his love with strength and courage.

If you had a dream about this life too, where love is great and inevitable, where adventures are the normal routine, you sure have desired a great castle as well: and what about stairs, glass slippers, balls, poisoned apples, little hamlets at the heart of the forest and ... Sleeping Beauty's bed.

The bed is the real main character of this story, as well as all the other stories: because a bed is the symbol of the unconditional love between the prince and his princess, of their life together and even more, of their "happily ever after".

But what does this fairy tale-like bed look like? It's beautiful, of course, but not just that. Above all it's romantic, elegant, sumptuous, in a world... royal.

Can you picture it? It's a wrought iron bed, covered with soft cushions and silk drapes, coloured with tender pastel tones. Sometimes it can also be a four poster bed. Obviously it's very big, or better huge, slightly higher that the beds we usually sleep in, a little bit closer to medieval beds.

We can change the story any time we want but the image we have of this kind of wrought iron bed is always more or less the same. So let's talk about your personal story, which is by no means less wonderful. Characters change, adventures too but the happy development is always the same and the bed can't be very different from the ones you dreamed about.

Whether you're alone or with someone else, a design wrought iron bed is a personalized fairy tale.

I have four ideas I'd like to propose to you, four different Italian design fairy tale beds that will help you live for a little while, at least in your bedroom, the everlasting dream of being a princess!

Fantasy wrought iron bed , covered with silver foil finish, is characterized by graceful and dream-like shapes and will give a touch of elegance to your bedroom.

The second one is Vietri drop-forged wrought iron bed. This bed has twelve different finishes and is an excellent choice for your fairy tale bed.

Then we have Macramé wrought iron bed, my personal favourite I must admit, with its beautiful headboard covered with heart-shaped decorations, perfect if you want to give a more romantic feel to your environment.

Last but not least: Fior di Pesco wrought iron double bed. This Italian design bed can really draw us to a fairy tale world even before sleeping. Its greatest characteristic is the optional four poster structure that will add more intimacy to your story.

What is there left to say? Except perhaps, have a nice sleep and make your fairy tale come true... at least a little bit!