Showing posts with label natural home furnishings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural home furnishings. Show all posts

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Perspective Freehand Style of Home Design in Japan III --- --- Return to Original and Natural

Japan is a country which is modern, fashionable but also traditional, low-pitched…

In Tokyo, those skyscrapers and modern fashion designs will make you dazzling, and their high-tech tools also very advanced and high-developed, but if you entered in some common families in Japan you will find their foods, living rooms, and daily-use articles still been kept very traditional, especially in Kyoto, there are very few high-rise buildings, and most of buildings there are traditional low living houses, inside which there are tatamis, Japanese are accustomed to sitting and sleeping on the floor, that is a most traditional way of life in Japan.


In past time the demand rank of life in most Japan families was arranged according to food, clothing, transportation and living, now that has shifted to a new order as living first, transportation next, then clothing, and food last, which put the improvement of living conditions to the first place. And during the peorid of post-war, Japan began to emphasis much on both technical quality and talent development, which constructed a solid base for Japan’s rapid development later.

Now the space characters and design concepts Japanese pursued could incorporates as following:

1. More Purified and Abstract Design thus to Attain a More Pure beauty…


2. Appreciate Natural Materials, Sights Stirs Up with Feeling, and Return to Original and Natural

Think much of the surface material processing when to create a space, and emphasis on the textures of material commonly, that imply its functions to break through frames.

Keeping those surfaces of concrete, wood textures as well as metal plates such as aluminum alloy, steel and other metal composite panels, artificial stones, mosaic revealed intact and boldly.

To show the material texture or its original forms specially, plus precise polishing, and let the quality of the surface materials which throughout modern technology processing entirely same as them shown on photographs from camera, or as quality viewed from a color filter, a particular method of material application with visual effects.


This type of filtering space effects featured with cool, smooth visual effects on surface, which could affects people's emotion, so that people living in cities could get some redeems for their potential moods of nostalgia, nostalgic, and back-to-nature.

In the process of design forms purification and abstraction, the more attention paid on material’s texture and quality will bound to rise to an unprecedented level, and the modern technology also has built good conditions for this rise.

Now, to create new texture effects, and the psychological effects people respond to these texture effects have become one of particular parts pursued deliberately by modern interior designers.

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* Original address of this home furnishings post: Best Home Furnishings, Green Home Furnishings, Fashion Home Furnishings

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Monday, January 19, 2009

Home Furnishings in This Winter and Autumn, Low-Key but Luxurious Enough


The communication of seasons has brought a new round of fashion expressions for soft home furnishings trend. Some well-known home furnishings brands launched their new products of soft home furnishings in succession, and in this autumn and winter, the fashion trend for soft home furnishings is: natural & luxurious.




Focus Colors

Classic black, white as based color, mixing with a little red embellishments which indicates passions, thus to outline the whole profile of the home furnishings style in this year’s winter and autumn.






At the same time, as the featured color on the fashion stage in this autumn and winter, grey has been applied to home furnishings too, thus to create matched levels, style tones and color concentrations with different shades of grey.

Focus Materials

This year, home-style fashion stresses more on the choice of materials, with high-grade materials such as genuine leather, silk, wool or boucle to present a kind of feeling as natural and luxurious.

Adorned with a small amount of metal, a strong sense of modern and low-key luxury temperaments thus shaped out.



Basic Patterns

Simple, functional straight lines, may be combined with a small number of flowers, branch and vine patterns, which transfer you concise textures and exotic flavors.

To choose home furnishings with delicate textures, the exquisite and elegant life style of the hostess could be expressed more easily and more naturally.


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