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 Contents…..

1. Introduction… 1. Where did u get that chair?.... 3 6. …. Your basic style and…. 19

2. The DNA of Chairs… 7. .. Kitchen is no exception.. 20

3. Material choices….
4. Life style…
5. Innovative furniture's..
6. Furniture to context… 2. …. Design really began in…. 9 8. Grownups never like kids
having fun………………….. 24
7. Room by Room
Furniture..
8. Kitchen furniture's…
9. Bathroom Fittings…. 3. …. Rare and exotic mater…. 11

10. Children’s furniture… 9. Walk in showers………..… 25

10. …. Don’t limit yourself to... 28

4. …. 3 things to consider ..…. 16

5. …. Quality, practical, ima…. 17


Furniture's……
• Furniture is the one
category of design elements that lies
almost wholly within the realm of
interior design, while walls, floors,
ceilings, windows and doors are
established in the architectural
design of a building, the selection
and arrangement of furniture within
the building space’s are major tasks
of interior design.
• Furniture mediates
between architecture and people it
offers a transition in form and scale
between an interior space and the
individual.
• It makes interiors
habitable by providing comfort and
utility in the tasks and activities we
undertake.
1. Introduction…..
• In addition to fulfilling
specific functions furniture
contributes to the visual character of
interior settings.
• The form, lines, color,
Jens Risom Pierre Paulin texture and scale of individual pieces
as well as their spatial organization
play a major role In establishing the
expressive qualities of a room.
• The pieces can be linear,
planar, volumetric in form, their lines
may be rectilinear or curvilinear,
Charles and Ray Eames Jean Prouvé angular or free flowing.
• They can have horizontal
or vertical proportion.
• They can be light and
airy. Their texture can be shiny,
Verner Panton Ross Lovegrove smooth or rough and heavy etc,
 1. Introduction…..

Design considerations….
• Human factors, are a major
influence on the form, proportion and
scale of furniture.
• To provide utility and
comfort in the execution of our task,
furniture should be designed first to Verner Panton
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respond or correspond to our
dimensions, the clearances required by
our patterns of movement and the
nature of the activity we are engaged in. • Built-in arrangements of
furniture on the other hand allow for the
• The way furniture is
flexible use of more space, there is
arranged in a room will affect how the
generally more continuity of form among
space is used and perceived. Pierre Paulin the furniture elements with fewer gaps
• Furniture can simply be between them.
placed as sculptural objects in space,
• Modular units combine the
more often furniture is organized into
unified appearance of built in furniture
functional groupings.
with the flexibility and movability of
• Most furniture consists of individual unit pieces.
individual or unit pieces which allow for
flexibility in their arrangement. Pierre Paulin
 1. Introduction…..

Design considerations….
• Seating should be designed
to comfortably support the weight and
shape of the user, because of great
variation in body size.
• The comfort factor is also
affected by the nature of the activity the
user might be engaged in at the time.
Functional Criteria
• Functional grouping furniture
• Appropriate dimensions and clearance
• Appropriate social distances
• Suitable visual acoustical privacy.
• Adequate flexibility or adaptability
• Appropriate lighting and other
electrical or mechanical services.
 1. Introduction…..

Aesthetic Criteria
• Appropriate scale to space and
function
• Visual grouping unity with variety
• Figure ground reading
• 3-dimensional composition, Rhythm,
Harmony, Balance.
• Appropriate orientation towards light,
view or an internal focus.
• Shape, color, texture and pattern.
 1. Introduction…..

Classification of furniture by plan

arrangements
• Plan arrangements can be
generally classified into two broad
categories according to how each uses
the available space.
• The first exhibits a Tight Fit
between the nature of the activity and
the arrangement of furniture and
equipment.
• This is done when functional
efficiency is important.
• Because a tight fir
arrangement may not be readily
adaptable to other uses, it is important
that it be laid out with great care for its
intended use.
• A tight furniture arrangement
usually employs modular or unit
furniture components which can be
combined in a number of ways to form
integrated, multifunctional, structures.
 1. Introduction…..

• A second more common

type of plan arrangement exhibits a
looser fir between function and space.
• LOOSE FIT
ARRANGEMENTS are desirable for the
flexibility and diversity they afford.
• The inherent flexibility in
adapting to changes in use or
circumstance makes a loose fit
arrangement the more common method
for laying out furniture in space.
• It also offers the opportunity
for a greater mix of furniture types, sizes
and styles to be selected over time to
suit almost any design situation.
 2. The DNA of Chairs…..

• Modernist furniture
design really began in 1918 with
Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld and
colliding planes of his Red and Blue
armchair.
• Scots architect Charles
Rennie Mackintosh played an
important stylistic role.
• In 1920’s Eileen Gray
and Le Corbusier designed
furniture to complement their
modernist buildings using industrial
processes.
• In pre Nazi Germany, at
the famous Bauhaus design school,
Marcel Breuer designed the sling
seated chairs.
• In 1930’s Finland, Alvar
Aalto explored the possibilities of
using the simple curves of moulded
plywood to give unique forms.
 2. The DNA of Chairs…..

• In 1940’s USA Charles

Eames and George Nelson used
plywood and new materials such as
reinforced plastics.
• During 1950’s Europe
emerged from post war hibernation
and Gio Ponti designed the elegant
Supperleggera chair.
• With the advent of air
travel and digital communications
design has become truly global and
no longer relies on local centres of
excellence.
 3. Material choices….

• As technology improves so do materials, plastics for

instance once shunned as being cheap and nasty, have become more
stable and gained a deserved acceptability.
• The materials chosen for a piece have a profound effect on
1. Wood the form, style and feel of the furniture composed from them and are
often the dominant character.
• Wood is the traditional • The materials used in contemporary furniture vary
material for furniture. Whether it is tremendously form the naturally found (such as wood, leather and
sawn, curved, turned or laminated, textiles) to the industrially produced (such as steel, glass, and plastics).
wood provides furniture with natural
appeal.
• The woods used today
mainly come from sustainable,
framed sources where the act of
growing absorbs co2 from the
atmosphere, making
environmentally sound materials.

• An example of excellent
wood engineering is designer Gio
Pointi’s Dining chair( Superleggera)
one of the lightest and beautiful
creations you can sit on…
 3. Material choices….

2. Metal
• Metal has been used in
furniture since its first discovery.
• With the advent of
industrially produced, cheap tubular
steel and chrome plating in 1920’s a
new genre of tubular steel furniture
arrived. (Marcel Breuer’s cesa
chair)
• Steel an alloy of iron is
the mainstay of furniture, it is strong,
cheap and reliable and can be
folded, bent and welded. (Jasper
Morrison’s Thinking Man’s Chair)
 3. Material choices….

3. Plastic
• Originally developed as
a substitute for horn and ivory,
mankind’s first truly synthetic
material.
• Robin Day’s Series E
chairs made of polypropylene.
• Thermoplastics like wax
are heat formable and can be
moulded in a variety of ways.
• Most common are
vacuum forming, rotational moulding
and injection moulding.
 3. Material choices….

4. Fabric and upholstery

• Wood, plastic and metal
can have hard, cold finishes, be
uncomfortable to sit on for long
periods, seating intended for
relaxation, so fabrics are used as
cushions.
• The most commonly
used fabrics are wool, linen and
cotton.
• Synthetic textiles and
blends are being developed with
excellent performance and new
characteristics such as strechability.
(Wink Chair, which can be adjust
its back to seat angle and unfold
into reclining lounger)
 3. Material choices….

5. Out of the ordinary

• Designers are always
exploring new ways of making
furniture, often using materials and
technologies from other industries.
• This conceptual
approach can lead to provocative
pieces which take iconographic
status.
• This can make them
collectable, being used as semi
functional sculpture to give an
interesting edge to a room.
 4. Life style….
• Decorating home should be a fulfilling and exciting
experience, but all to often homeowners fall at the very first hurdle
unable to decide what sort of style and mood they are trying to
create.

Three things to consider before you search for your look

Life style
• Taste in interior design 1. Be realistic about your life style.
come and go, so the most 2. Be true to your personality
fundamental question to ask 3. Choose décor to complement the style.
yourself when choosing a new room
scheme is whether or not it is really
practical for your day to day life.
• You may love the idea of
minimalist open plan apartment, but
is you have a family, the reality of
living with no dividing walls to stop
noise traveling and slow the
inevitable spread of clutter.
• If you spend long hours
at work and are rarely at home, you
have to acknowledge the fact that
you need a low maintenance style.
 5. Innovative furniture's….

Innovative design idea’s

• Designers are always
exploring new ways of making
furniture, often using materials and
technologies from other industries.
• These pieces tend to
emanate from small studios where
designers take risks large
manufacturers cannot consider.
• This conceptual
approach can lead to provocative
pieces which take iconographic
status.
• This can make them
collectable, being used as semi
functional sculpture to give an
interesting edge to a room.
 5. Innovative furniture's….

Innovative design idea’s

• The uncompromising
disposition of their designs often
means they are unsuitable for
volume production and are made as
one offs or in small batches.
• Opting for innovative
furniture may seem a risk compared
to buying reproductions of classics,
but its worth buying originals.
• Arne Jacobsen’s Ant
chair, was innovative and influential
in 1960’s and an original is now
worth a skip load of the lesser
quality designs inspired by it.
 6. Room by Room Furniture’s…

Room by Room Furniture…

1. Kitchen
2. Dining Area
3. Home office
4. Bedrooms
5. Living Room
6. Study Room
7. Work stations
8. Outdoor seating
9. Kids furniture
10. Bathroom fittings
 7. Kitchen Furniture….

Kitchen….

Because your kitchen

is the heart of your home it is
necessary to have a good kitchen
floor plan, one that has a good
flow between the refrigerator, the
sink and the stove or oven. Your
kitchen serves as a meeting room
for the family, a place for dining, a
work area for a chef and a place
for entertaining friends and family.
• The impact of pre
prepared foods cleaner cooking
technologies and improved air
extraction has allowed the kitchen
to become a more
accommodating environment.
• Out of this change
comes the need to combine the
functions of the food preparation
surface with informal eating and
entertaining.
 7. Kitchen Furniture….

Kitchen….

• The higher worksuface

required for good posture while
standing and cooking is met by
the introduction of tall stools for
comfortable seating.
• Surfaces and finishes
come under greater attack in the
heat of the kitchen than anywhere
else in home.
• Durability, scratch
endurance and water and stain
resistance are important practical
considerations when selecting
furniture in this area.
 7. Kitchen Furniture….

Kitchen….

• As we are now
spending more time in the kitchen
environment so the aesthetic
design of the essential cooking
accessories and other details
becomes more evident and more
important.
Dining Table…
• By tradition the dining
table has been the daily social
meeting place for family and
friends.
• Talking over a good
meal can be one of life’s greatest
pleasures. These days it is rare to
find a dining table that is used
exclusively for the purpose of
dining, more often than not eating
has to fight for precedence over
newspapers, magazines,
homework and food preparation.
 7. Kitchen Furniture….

Kitchen….

Dining Table…
• Dining chairs can take
quite a battering, especially in
family environment.
• People do lean back,
especially when relaxed and exert
quite a force on the rear legs and
frame.
• Some of the more
recent chair designs featuring
injection-moulded plastic seats
and metal tube legs.
 8. Bathroom fixtures….

Bathroom fixtures….

Bathroom…
• A bathroom is a room
that may have different functions
depending on the cultural context
it is used in.
• In its literal sense, the
word "bathroom" means "a room
with a bath", but as baths have
partly made way for showers and
steam showers.
• The bathroom is
usually the smallest room in the
house. Apart from expensive
designer baths or crystal bowl
wash basins, designs remain
simple, basic and uninspiring.
 8. Bathroom fixtures….

Bathroom fixtures….
 9. Kids Furniture….

Kids furniture….
 9. Kids Furniture….

Kids furniture….
 9. Kids Furniture….

Kids furniture….
 10. Furniture to context…

Different architectural styles

1. Traditional English Style
2. Country Style
3. Loft Style
4. Orient Style
5. French Style
6. Mediterranean Style
KITCHEN BATH ROOM
 10. Furniture to context…

Different architectural styles

1. Traditional English Style
2. Country Style
3. Loft Style
4. Orient Style
5. French Style
6. Mediterranean Style
 10. Furniture to context…

Different architectural styles

1. Traditional English Style
2. Country Style
3. Loft Style
4. Orient Style
5. French Style
6. Mediterranean Style
 10. Furniture to context…

Different architectural styles

1. Traditional English Style
2. Country Style
3. Loft Style
4. Orient Style
5. French Style
6. Mediterranean Style
 10. Furniture to context…

Different architectural styles

1. Traditional English Style
2. Country Style
3. Loft Style
4. Orient Style
5. French Style
6. Mediterranean Style
 10. Furniture to context…

Different architectural styles

1. Traditional English Style
2. Country Style
3. Loft Style
4. Orient Style
5. French Style
6. Mediterranean Style