Modern and Functional Extending Tables: Greetings from Germany

Essential and pure, Kronos extending table is definitely a beautiful and functional Italian design table... it's almost impossible not to fall in love with it.

Only two months of life and already leaving for Germany! Its owner sent us photos to show it arrived safe and sound, very satisfied by the trip and ready to host up to 8 people!

After all an extending table must be ready to face all the challenges of everyday life...

Our extremely kind German customer did a great job in combining the minimalist style of this table with design chairs characterized by a 70s vibe.

Kronos is available in many models. Fixed, extendable, in different widths and lengths, equipped with different models of legs and a huge selection of colours and materials. This customer chose a sober white extra-clear glass table, with legs in brushed aluminium.

Modern and elegant at the same time!

Have a look at the detailed photo of the structure in brushed aluminium. These are the photos we like the most: first of all because they clearly show details that are usually ignored in photographic shoots and second because, we will never get tired of saying this, details make the difference. Especially in extending tables it is necessary to choose a quality product, also to avoid not so pleasant surprises after just a few days of using the extending mechanism.

So Danke Schön to our German customer and we hope her photos are an encouragement for everyone: send us photos of the products you've purchased we can't wait to receive them and we promise we will put them in good use!

A tour inside the living room: which kind of furniture do we need?

There is a reason why we chose to focus on the living room for our first post: the part of the house in which you welcome guests and which you experience the most should reflect your personality at its highest degree. And two should be the keywords when thinking about choosing your living room furniture: functionality and relax.

But what do we mean with them? Let's have a quick look.

Functionality: inside the living room several objects and accessories find their perfect place, therefore it is imperative to organize spaces by choosing space-saving solutions. Shelves, bookcases, displays and several other storage wall or floor standing units are the answers.

Relax: spare time and living room go hand in hand. For this reason, make room for Tvs, audio systems, DVD-players, PCs and playing consoles by easily organizing them into a single wall system for the living room.

Having said that, let's give you some tips about how to furnish the living room in a well-organized and comfortable way!

Wall Systems

The perfect modular solution for the audio and video area. You can start by choosing simple cabinets with drawers or baskets and then add shelves, floor storage cabinets and wall units, thus creating really customized and modular compositions. Wall systems are passe-partout pieces of furniture, as they allow to meet several space needs, furnishing environments of several measurements, in a variety of styles and configurations. You are free to choose pre-made compositions or individual storage solutions to combine according to your taste and creativity!

The second solution is particularly useful when you need to furnish narrow environments or walls with peculiar measurements.




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Bookcases

Similar to wall systems, bookcases offer the perfect alternative or complementary solution to them. It is possible to add doors and drawers to the classic bookcases, or choose compositions which allow to integrate televisions and audio systems, thus transforming the bookcase in a wall system.

Another creative way to use these pieces of furniture? Double-sided bookcases to be placed in the middle of the room! A storage and dividing element at the same time, which represents an useful solution for open space living rooms with kitchen, or one-room apartments in which the night and day area cohexist and need to be creatively divided.

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Sideboard, Cupboards and Displays

First of all, what is the difference between them? A sideboard is a low and long piece of furniture with doors and drawers, traditionally used for tableware; a cupboard is a high storage unit equipped with doors, usually for tableware or serving also the purpose of a bar unit. Displays have a merely expositive function.

Aside from these traditional uses, now sideboards and cupboards have been "re-newed" in their function, thanks to the technological integration of embedded stereo systems and dock stations.

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TV Stand Furniture

TV stands are a must: TV stand wall systems, fixed cabinet or with casters, wall panels, low cabinets with drawers, swivel, pull-out and adjustable models, led lighting and audio integrations... should I go further on?

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So, we talked about what you will need to furnish the living room by keeping in mind principles of optimization and comfort. If you have a television, PC, audio system and playing systems, one smart solution would be choosing a single furniture to avoid the risk of overloading the space with several items and scattered wires. Technologically advanced wall systems and TV stands are often specifically designed to organize cables, remotes, webcams, joysticks and other accessories (raise your hand if you have a game-addicted partner and you know what I mean!).

If you have a small environment to be furnished, you can think of choosing a single TV stand or a sideboard which combines all the functions in one single item: storage surface for TVs, books and DVDs, doors for dishes and glasses, compartments for consoles and audio systems.
It is simply a matter of spaces planning and organization, so release your creativity and starts combining with our Italian design furniture solutions!

What's new? The Italian Design Furniture Blog is back!

What did you think, that we left our chair heading to Bahamas? Or maybe that we forgot you.

Absolutely not! 

We were "simply" renovating our contents and now we are back with a new website graphics, new appealing products and departments: furniture for the office, an entirely new collection of bathroom products with the innovative Color Viewer - that will allow you to change the colour of your chosen furniture with a simple click... and this is just the beginning of the story, we have plenty of products available on our website for all price and taste ranges, Italian design furniture at your fingertips!

Do you want to be fully updated on our news? Just follow our blog and don't forget to visit ArredaClick.

Stay tuned for our first post... we will be talking about... no, we don't want to spoil it but we are sure you will like it!

Rotational moulding and pop furniture

Rotational moulding is a technique which allows to mass-produce series of objects made of plastic materials.

Since the 50s this technology has entered in the design and furniture world.

The process consists in filling an hollow mould with polymeric powder, heating it and rotate the mould for twenty minutes at an average temperature of 250°C. In this way the polymer perfectly adheres to the mould internal surface and, once cooled down and consolidated, it will be possible to extract the object simply by opening the mould.

During the second half of 20th Century, several design furniture have been produced using this technique. We gathered some contemporary furniture pieces realized with rotational moulding technique with the purpose to show you its potential.

Proust baroque armchair designed by Alessandro Mendini is an "unfaithful reproduction" of his famous armchair with the same name created in 1978. In 10 years, more than 15 examples have been produced, both made of wood or with hand painted fabric; it was Mendini himself who decided not to "number" the armchairs, like all limited number pieces but simply "sign" them, like works of art.

After 30 years Proust armchair entered mass-production thanks to Magis, a famous Italian brand. The work of art becomes an industrial product in perfect "Pop" style, just like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein wanted.

Another rotational moulding strong point is the ability to create big objects, just like Misses Flower Power large vase designed by Philippe Stark for Kartell. Stark's purpose is to approach design to general public by going beyond the concept of "elite". Rotational moulding was here applied for the first time with a polycarbonate material. It's a certain fact that the introduction of plastic materials in the furniture field has been (and still is) a great help for Stark and his "dream": quality furniture for everyone.

On Spun rotating armchair designed by Thomas Heaterwick for Magis the high qualities of polyethylene are clearly visible: high resistance and insulating features that make it suitable for outdoor furniture as well. Spun armchair has to support the weight of a person who, while seated on it, moves and rotates.

Babel bookcase with asymmetric shelves, designed by Mario Mazzer, looks like a tower, as the name says. The conical trunk-like shape and the irregular lines on the external surface reminds a tree bark.

Bright colours, often primary, are great matched with plastic materials and this bookcase, together with all the other objects present on this page are a fine example.

Since the 50s, when rotational moulding was first used for furniture and design objects, this technique and materials left their mark, increasing design potential and catchment area.

Milan's Furniture Fair 2011: new tendencies and trends

Last week, from the 12th to the 17th of April, the city of Milan hosted one of the most famous furniture fair in the world: Milan's furniture fair (or Milano design week), celebrating with this edition its 50th birthday!

Milan's Salone del Mobile represents the major event for the furniture field and for Italian design, gathering in one single place new tendencies, trends and innovations.

Salone is composed by 7 different pavilions that divide furniture into different styles (from classic pavillons to contemporary furniture pavillons) or purposes (from office furniture to the lighting area), for a total of 2500 firms. All pavilions were characterized by highly innovative stands, showing all the best in terms of creativity, originality and quality.

And that's the reason why more than 290.000 visitors among field operators or simple customers decided to attend to this great event, living at the same time this particular atmosphere of pure design.

Could we miss it? Not for the world! Saturday our staff went to enjoy a long day at the fair in order to view, touch and try the very best that Italian design can nowadays offer in terms of products - from the single piece to the whole combination - and of style - from classic to contemporary design. At the same time we took notes about all the new tendencies that are going to wait for us in the near future.

Italia 150 chair deserves a special mention: first of all because it's a design chair born to celebrate the 150 anniversary of Italian unification, and second of all because its the symbol of the happy marriage between past and future.

After Milano 2015 chair, created for Milan's 2015 Universal Exposition, that's another example of a chair born to celebrate an important event. Italia 150 is completely realized in polycarbonate available in different colours: transparent, smoked, bronze, bottle green. The version with red, white and green colours (reminding the Italian flag), together with dove grey, is realized in thick glossy nylon.

Italia 150 chair modernizes the style and lines of the chairs used in the past, matching the importance of our recent history with modern materials and looks.

Comfort, design and functionality: the perfect image of Made in Italy design!

And what about colours? Which are this season's most trendy colours? The watchword is just one: dove grey, dove grey and again dove grey!

This year, Milan's fair was completely invaded by this colour, together with all light coffee nuances: sand, mud, ivory... from wall systems, playing with a light and dark colour combinations, to bedroom furniture, tables and chairs.

A great attention has also been given to table top materials: together with classic wooden and glass tops, we now have a great selection of new finishes, able to match the handiness of an everyday use with the elegance and charm that a living room table should have.

Edro extensible table with resistant top is a great example; available in a composite material made with iron parts, it's particularly resistant to deformations and scratches, perfect if you have children and want to avoid delicate finishes.

Another material that will soon be available is gres porcelain, the natural development of the concrete finished top you can already see on Baron extensible table by Calligaris.

These are just some of 2011 new products and finishes you will soon find on our website, stay tuned for more to come!