Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Bonaldo upholstered beds, refined and innovative design solutions


Let's begin with a statement. 
There are several bed models: single, double, large single beds but also canopy, round, french, king size beds... what makes the difference is that Bonaldo double beds represent real design solutions. The willingness to experiment new materials and shapes, together with a new interpretation of traditional domestic needs, are the key features of Bonaldo upholstered beds; innovative and extremely functional furniture solutions! There's enough for every taste and style; versatility and practicity are the keywords.
So, let's start having a look at some wonderful examples.
For those who love a minimal design but don't want to renounce to a touch of modernity and customization Contrast bed is the ideal solution.
The remarkable and wide upholstered headboard with removable cover is supported by metal tubes which, together with the feet, enlighten the structure from a visual point of view, giving it a modern yet essential look. The headboard is available in a smooth or quilted model, in a wide range of colours to meet several aesthetic tastes. It is possible to incorporate to its sides one or two functional tables for a nighstand use, also matched with low big drawers slotting under the structure to provide room and usable surfaces at the same time.
The headboard stands out in Basket bed too: shaped and rounded on its sides, wrapping and welcoming, upholstered and with a removable cover.
Basket is a classic upholstered bed which offers the possibility to include an always useful storage box inside the bed-ring.
For those who wish a more sober and essential style, Joe bed offers the right solution. The simplicity and harmony of its shapes, underlined and marked by the hemmed profile which contrasts the upholstery, together with elegance and sobriety are the main features of this bed. Thanks to its two-coloured cover, this bed can meet also the needs of those looking for more original and refined result; by matching leather and a coloured profile you will obtain a bed with an elegant, refined and detailed style.
The upholstered and removable cover is available in fabric, leather or eco-leather whereas the headboard can come in a high quilted or low smooth model.
To achieve a touch of colour and customization you can also choose Amos bed; its decorative profile, which follows and outlines the bed-ring and the headboard will create a coloured and wrapping line.
Amos is a bed with a young and modern design, suitable for a trendy environment: the low structure, which is almost at a floor level, the headboard with a remarkable thickness and the extremely original soft lines are characteristics of this exclusive design product.
The highest degree of comfort and softness is represented by Fluff bed, which is featured with a peculiar upholstery in soft feather and rounded welcoming lines.
Available in five measurements, several materials and colours, this product is extremely customizable and manufactured with a great care for details: recessed mattress, headboard made up of one or two cushions, pinched stitching...
Last but not least in our beds list, the grounding values of Bonaldo company are all perfectly represented by Squaring bed: essential geometric shapes, highest degree in customization and versatility, reinterpretation of classics, exclusive design, combination of creativity and innovation.
Squaring is a modular and modern upholstered bed with a squared patterend quilted cover and a peninsula which can be placed in its back or lateral part serving the purpose of a headboard or a resting surface. It is possible to vary the height of the bed base and the mattress, which can be recessed to get a more modern design or let stick out from the bed-ring to obtain a more traditional look. Thanks to its peculiar shape and structure, Squaring can be placed in the middle of the room or inside an open space to mark and give a touch of exclusivity to the environment.

So let Bonaldo beds comfort you and welcome in their soft arms!

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Five years of Italian Design Furniture: Happy Birthday ArredaClick!


Today, October the 22nd, is ArredaClick's 5th Birthday and we would like to celebrate these great past years and share with you the accomplishments we achieved by bringing Italian Design Furniture almost everywhere!

We started with a clear idea in mind, a furniture online store able to offer a great selection of products which can be purchased in complete autonomy (but always with a Customer Care at disposal for any kind of help of course!) at highly competitive prices.

Through the years these concepts have been carried out and developed thanks to the addition of hundreds of new products and collections - literally meeting every kind of taste and need - and also thanks to the addition of precious team members sharing with us the same passion and love, which helped us improve constantly our services.

We usually don't like to talk numbers but in this case we're so proud we are going to make an exception: our Italian Furniture Shop has been visited more than 4 million times (for sake of precision 4.170.000) and we served more than 10.000 customers worldwide, from Italy to Hong Kong!

We're proud, we're passionate, we're good and we believe that what we offer is an exceptional tool to purchase with ease and in complete safety Italian furniture with competent support teams at disposal and transparent yet competitive prices.

As a gift for our birthday we made a spectacular photo shoot you can view directly inside the About Us page of our website, check also the Backstage video and meet our teams!

For the blog only, here's a special backstage photo of the European Markets Team, Monica and I are in this one, guess who's who!


Friday, October 18, 2013

Variér Ergonomic Chairs: Ty Pennington winks at Norway's Finest Furniture

Variér is a Scandinavian company, specialized in the manufacturing of ergonomic chairs and stools for the house, home office and office contexts. It was established in 2006 but it has been actually on the market since 1979 with the brand Stokke. Today Stokke deals with the creation of top-class strollers and baby accessories, whereas Variér specialized in adult and kids chairs, now working in 36 countries, giving comfort to students and workers during their intense sitting sessions.

Ok, so we got to know Variér... but who's Ty Pennington? He is the anchor-man of widely famous TV shows such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, an ABC - Endemol co-production, broadcast by Sky UK in the United Kingdom. Pennington is also the author of How Good Design Can Change Your Life best-seller book (Simon & Schuster).
There is nothing more truth than this: a good design can change your life for the better and in this case it seems that Ty Pennington has Variér ergonomic chairs in his mind!



Aside the fabulous hotel in which Ty spent his spare time during his trip to Norway, and the kisses which he gave to the upholsteries (someone could say these were lucky!), the visit to Variér manufacturing headquarters is a glimpse on how the "fabric of the future" should look like: high-quality materials, long lasting products, extended use of recycled and recyclable materials, liveable spaces, packaging reduced to its smallest degree.
And these were the concepts expressed also by Oystein Soraas - one of Variér's managers, who appears also in this video - when he visited our offices, together with the entire Variér's management, in July. Needless to say it was a great and satisfactory experience for us!
The Scandinavian Design met the Online Italian Furniture!

Variér chairs are futuristic because they are designed to increase the well-being of homo-sapiens-sapiens who is becoming more and more inactive as time goes by. So, could we talk about Homo-sedens? Maybe it is the case!
Studying and working increase the risk of taking bad habits in terms of postures and sitting positions. But people who have to stand on their feet for a long time experience the same problems too!
Variér's products are designed to make living more comfortable to a wide range of audience: kids, employees, directors, workers, writers, artists, cookers, housewives (who will be surely "less desperate" with these chairs!)
With Variér ergonomic chairs it will be "mandatory" to keep the correct posture in any moment of the day, no matter what you do. Just like an old teacher shouting you to sit down properly behind your school desk. Ok, those weren't so nice and loveable... and we can say that Variér is an improvement for sure!
So, what are you waiting for? Have a look at Variér, then!

Friday, October 11, 2013

Bonaldo chairs: creativity, design and innovation

ArredaClick has been collaborating with Bonaldo for a very long time, during these years we madly fell in love with their products, and for this reason we would like to dedicate an article of one of their most important pieces: Bonaldo chairs.
In 1996 the company won Young & Design Award thanks to Più chair and from that moment on they kept designing and creating new chairs by following three main values: creativity, quality and innovation. With each project, Bonaldo matches its passion to technique, technological and handicraft processes, simplicity and materials experimentation; all these things can be managed also thanks to the collaboration with national and international designers such as Alain Gilles, Karim Rashid and Mauro Lipparini.

My Time chair is an upholstered chair whose materials and colours follow the latest market trends. Customize the chair following your taste and by choosing from a huge selection of leather, eco-leather or fabric colours. Completely removable fabric cover together with modern and trendy lines make My Time a perfect choice for young flats.

My Time chair by Bonaldo

Are you looking for a simple practical chair but you still want to have something elegant to show to your friends? Kamar chair is perfect, an upholstered chair with a decorative zip, a slightly curved backrest which follow the line of the body and an opening which makes the design lighter. A mix of elements joined together in harmony.

Kamar chair by Bonaldo

Kamar chair by Bonaldo

Bonaldo researches on design and on the use of different materials brought to the creation of Loto and Razor chairs.
Loto chair is the example of how the research on materials and a beautiful aesthetic can be merged together to compose a useful and functional furniture piece.
A single structure in plastic material matched with wooden legs create a chair with a sturdy structure but with a graceful line. 

Loto chair by Bonaldo

Razor chair with its crossed sled base well expresses the creative approach of Bonaldo chairs. The seat padding is only apparently in contrast with the metal structure, since the two materials are as a matter of fact in harmony with each other. The modern and original design, the combination of materials as well as the refined shapes are yet another example of Bonaldo values.

Razor chair by Bonaldo

Filly chair shows another strong characteristic of this firm: its eclecticism. In order to satisfy the needs of everyone this chair is available in a standard model, with high back, large seat, in an armchair model with armrests and also as a stool, all three versions coming with an elegant and modern design, visible stitching and a great seat comfort.

Filly chair by Bonaldo

Bonaldo chairs are so great we could keep on talking about them for hours... however it's time to say goodbye and I would love to do it with one last model By chair. This chair matches classic with modern and
gathers several features in one single piece: care for details, a matching of different materials, a study on the shapes, selection of colours and models, elegance, refined design as well as convenience.

By chair by Bonaldo

By chair by Bonaldo

Friday, October 4, 2013

Kitchen Tables. Functional, beautiful, stylish.

The kitchen is not only a place in which experience the wonderful and satisfactory moment of the dinner, it is a convivial space, in which you stay together with your family or friends. In this informal environment it is easy to chat, discuss and have fun: with your own partner while cooking, with your kids while helping them doing their homeworks, with friends while preparing appetizers or uncorking a bottle of wine.
So where can you conveniently meet to do all this? Obviously on a kitchen table! So let's see how to choose it in the proper way.

Materials: the strongest and the scratch-resistant ones
The table is mostly used as a "serving furniture": a real working surface. If you are one of those who see the table as a multipurpose furniture item, you will have to pay a double attention in choosing the top material, with a preference for a laminate one. This doesn't mean renouncing to wood or glass, but simply treat them with more care!


Tops which are 100% scratch and weary resistant through time don't exist, time and ordinary usage can be tricky to any kind of material; in any case, if you know that you are quite intolerant to scratches, you can decide for a table such as Slim, which gives you the possibility to choose a HPL high-resistance laminate top. Another suitable solution is a table with an MDF top, just like Porta Venezia, which combines design, functionality and tradition.



Another expedient would be choosing a material which can conceal the possible scratches, such as the tranché melamine of kitchen tables like Hide, whose name speaks out the truth! The tranchè finish shows in fact a striped texture reproducing wood grains.


Obviously this doesn't mean that you can't put a wooden table inside your kitchen, most of all in a classic and rustic one. Functionality and resistance are two key factors but you don't have to renounce to aesthetics, especially in two or single-room apartments where the kitchen table has to serve also the purpose of a table for the sitting room! If you don't wish to renounce to the elegance of glass, you can choose among kitchen tables, such as Dublino one, coming in scratch-resistant glass.

Modern and Classic Kitchen Tables
This choice depends upon your taste and the environments in which the table has to be placed. The material does not represent an obstacle because there are kitchen tables made of wood, glass, metal, stone and even plastic materials, ideal for both classic and modern kitchens thanks to their shapes and details.
What comes up immediately to one's mind in choosing furniture for a modern kitchen is the glass table, with aluminium legs or inserts, for example have a look at Fli.
In addition, the modern kitchen allows to dare and play with brave and creative or trendy colour combinations. The perfect example of this is represented by Easy, suitable for modern or contemporary kitchens, in which the ideal lines are simple and essential, almost minimalist!



For classic, country and rustic environments the wood is the top material for excellence. Solid wood with a raw look or decapè, embossed, open pore lacquered finish in sober and natural colors for a shabby chic style? The design of the tables can recall the shapes of tradition, leading to products with simple "tavern" shapes or enriched by turned legs and inlays. Cosimo, for example, shows a simple and country-inspired design. The top is in MDF covered with hand-consumed solid oak wood and treated with a natural transparent coating which makes it ideal for an ordinary use inside the kitchen.


For a modern country environment you can combine also different materials to achieve an unexpected effect of remarkable elegance and refinement. Kitchen tables such as Tirol creates a valuable corner in extremely refined kitchens.
The legs come in aged fir wood, whereas the top is in glass. This table is the classic example of how modern and classic style can harmoniously cohexist.


And what should you do when you are about to furnish a relatively small kitchen?
If you have a two-room apartment, a small open space or a one-room environment, it is imperative to optimize the space. Among the latest trends one of the most appreciated ones is the peninsula kitchen table, which is the typical American solution. Maybe a customized one such as Mary, which is able to meet any kind of space need. The top is fixed to the wall and the leg is height adjustable.