28Sep
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23Sep
Furniture Toronto’s Stool Samples by Visitor Parking
Posted by adminStools Samples For Furniture Toronto brought to you by Visitor Parking!
We have stools with leather seats, stools with pvc seats, stools with wooden seats, stools with high backs, stools with no backs, stools made of stainless steel….
There are plenty of stools on the market. Visitor Parking has a huge selection of stools to choose from. So if you’re undecided about what you would like, or if you know what you’re looking for, then stop by the showroom and see for yourself. It’s not going to be the end of the world should you choose the wrong kitchen stool with the wrong seat color or the wrong bar stool height. So have fun with it, and maybe even consider selecting different designs?
No matter what your décor is or will be…Visitor Parking is sure to have the solution for you!
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18Sep
Coffee Tables
Posted by adminCoffee tables – why is a coffee table referred to as a coffee table? why not a tea table? or in most cases a foot rest table? (…I guess that would be an ottoman). Lets find out shall we….
The first coffee house to open in Britain was opened in Oxford in 1650, and was followed in 1652 by the opening of the first coffee house in London. The popularity of this first establishment was such that it was imitated widely and coffee houses became ubiquitous in the City of London. Known as the Penny Universities, (the entry fee, which included a cup of coffee, was one penny), as it was reckoned that you could learn as much there as going to university, the coffee houses became the gathering places of merchants, scholars, politicians, businessmen and the like. In more recent times “coffee shops” are renowned social spots throughout Amsterdam and The Netherlands…but not for drinking coffee…:)
Anyway, as time went on coffee houses played an important part in the development of the City of London. For instance, the Edward Lloyd coffee house established in 1688 later became Lloyds of London. Other coffee houses where the stock jobbers congregated to do business after being expelled from the Royal Exchange formed the basis for what was to eventually become the London Stock Exchange.
The idea of a table specifically used for serving hot drinks or putting down one’s cup between sips predates the coffee table in Europe by some time. In Britain in 1750 tea drinking was at the height of fashion and there was increasing demand for tea tables. There were pillar and claw tripod tea tables with a round top that were later hinged and were taller than present day coffee tables. There were also examples of tea or china tables that were rectangular. Other forms of tables in use at this time which could be placed near to a sofa were called occasional tables, end tables, and/or side tables.
The first wooden tables, in Britain, specifically designed as and called coffee tables, were made during the late Victorian era. There is a table designed by E.W. Godwin in 1868 and made in large numbers by William Watt and Collinson and Lock which is listed as a coffee table in ‘Victorian Furniture’ by R. W. Symonds & B. B. Whineray and also in ‘The Country Life book of English Furniture’ by Edward T. Joy. If this was indeed called a coffee table at the time, it may be one of the first examples of a coffee table made in Europe. Other sources, however, merely list it as a table so it is hard to be sure. What is notable about this table is that it is not a low table at all, but is actually about 27 inches high.
So there you have it. A brief, but interesting tid-bit of coffee table history that you can discuss the next time your sitting around your coffee table with family and friends.
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15Sep
Entertainment Unit Or Unit For Entertainment???
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Entertainment Unit - Monoblock Studio Entertainment Unit
The best furniture toronto store for entertainment units is Visitor Parking on King St East.
Now that you’ve decided that you must have an entertainment unit, you’ll need to figure out exactly which unit is right for you. Most of that depends on the extent of your system. If you have a full system with all of the electronics, you’ll need quite a large entertainment center.
It seems like the modern home theater system has about a hundred different components to keep track of. Back in the day, home theater consisted merely of one television (and probably a black and white one at that!). Today, the average system consists of numerous pieces including a television, receiver, DVD player, cable box, speakers… that’s only naming a few! With this explosion of components comes a need to keep everything organized. That’s where entertainment units come into play. If you want to keep your system organized with all of those ugly wires out of sight, you’ll need to purchase one of these useful pieces of furniture.
When choosing an entertainment unit, you must also take into account the décor of the room into which you will place it. Are the other furnishings of the modern variety, or are they more traditional? Obviously, buying a contemporary entertainment unit for a room that is entirely traditional will result in a look that is completely out of place. Every piece in the room should compliment all of the others. Along the same lines, try to match the color of your entertainment unit to the other furniture, or at least choose a color that doesn’t badly clash.
If you take into account some basic conditions when purchasing an entertainment unit, you shouldn’t have a problem. The most important thing to remember is that your unit is built to house your electronics; that means that your decision needs to be based on the components you already have, not the entertainment unit that is most aesthetically pleasing. Hopefully, you won’t have to make that distinction!
Finally, it’s important to visualize exactly how your setup will fit into the entertainment unit of your choosing. Before you leave your house, apartment or condo to start shopping, make a detailed list of all of the components that will go into the unit, as well as other media such as DVD’s and CD’s. If you really want to take your planning to the next level, write down the dimensions of each component. For most people, the most important thing is to know how large the television is. The other pieces can be manipulated, but if your TV doesn’t fit, you’ll be out of luck.
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03Sep
Modern Furniture – Timeless Classics
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Modern Classics In Modern Settings
Modern Furniture: Timeless classics
Prior to the modernist design movement, functionality to the back seat appeal to the popular ornamental furniture style. The modern movement reintroduced simple efficiency and originality to the home furnishings marketplace, and innovation to home decor. Modernist design schools like Bauhaus and Werkbund revolutionized home furniture. By investing in the creativity of their artists along with modernist philosophies, the introduction of advanced manufacturing methods and new materials for home furnishings design emerged. Many of the original modern furniture designs are still popular today, like the Eames Chair, the Barcelona Chair, the Wassily Chair and many others. This article presents the classic modern furniture pieces that are still popular today.
Eames Lounge & Ottoman
Eames Lounge & Ottoman
The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, correctly titled Eames Lounge and Ottoman, were released in 1956 after years of development by designers Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company. It was the first chair the Eames designed for a high-end market. These furnishings are made of molded plywood and leather. Examples of these furnishings are part of the permanent collection of New York’s Museum Of Modern Art..
The chair is composed of three curved plywood shells. In modern production the shells are made up of seven thin layers of wood veneer glued together and shaped under heat and pressure. This differentiates the newer chairs from the “original” (vintage) chairs which used Brazilian rosewood veneers and were constructed of five layers of plywood. Also differentiating the very earliest sets from newer sets were rubber spacers between the aluminum spines and the wood panels first used in the earliest production models and then hard plastic washers used in later versions. In the earlier sets, the zipper around the cushions may have been brown or black as well, and in newer sets the zippers are black. The shells and the seat cushions are essentially the same shape: composed of two curved forms interlocking to form a solid mass. The chair back and headrest are identical in proportion, as are the seat and the Ottoman.
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The Wassily Chair
Wassily Chair
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. However, Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky’s personal quarters. The chair became known as “Wassily” decades later, when it was re-released by an Italian manufacturer named Gavina who had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of its research on the chair’s origins.
This chair was revolutionary in the use of the materials (bent tubular steel and canvas) and methods of manufacturing. It is said that the handlebar of Breuer’s ‘Adler’ bicycle inspired him to use steel tubing to build the chair.
The Wassily chair, like many other designs of the modernist movement, has been mass-produced since the late 1920s, and continuously in production since the 1950s.
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Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair
Barcelona Chair
Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair
Perhaps the most famous of all modern chairs, the Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe is a ubiquitous and unmistakable classic of modern design.
German-born American Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created the Barcelona Chair for the German Pavilion in 1929 for the Barcelona Exposition. While some have tried to mimick the sleek silhouette and structure of the Barcelona Chair, Mies van der Rohe gave the exclusive manufacturing rights for his design to Knoll in 1953.
The Barcelona Chair and matching ottoman feature carefully hand-tufted leather with hand-buffed frame and carefully welted Spinneybeck volo cowhide panels. The Barcelona Chair is meticulously hand-crafted from start to finish and is truly a modern masterpiece. The Barcelona Lounge Collection was honored with The Museum of Modern Art Award in 1977.
Mies van der Rohe’s revolutionary 1929 design is still relevant today, fitting seamlessly with almost any decor. The Barcelona chair and ottoman set is a modern must-have. Today Knoll manufactures the frame in two different steel configurations, chrome and stainless. The chair is almost completely hand-laboured. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s signature is stamped into each chair.
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Learn More…
Want to learn more about the modern design movement?
Check out these great books and magazines about modern furniture & design:
The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design
Sourcebook Of Modern Furniture
