As the year ticks away and 2008 slips into 2009 we decided that having a post centered around Man’s keeper of time : The Clock. No matter if you have your clock in the centre of your mantlepiece, hoisted high on the wall or merely glowing from your DVD recorder, it’s there to remind us all just how short a day really can be.
Perhaps your a person whose goverened by Time, constantly checking the clock or watch and fretting where Time went. Or you may be the type who manages Time better than most and knows how to waste Time well. However, you run your day, having these contemporary retro clocks, in and around your home can show others that you at least know how to have a good Time.
Selling a house in a time when house markets have taken a hammering from the global economic downturn can seem like an impossible task. But there is hope! People are buying houses, sure, not in the numbers during the pre-credit-crunch days but buying they are. And when you have the Head of Barclays Bank claiming, that house prices will tumble by 30% in the forthcoming year, it really drives home that the position of strength lays with the buyer. Which means if you are a seller, then you have to do more than bake cookies and boil some fresh coffee to entice a buyer that your home is worth buying.
Homes that look modern, inside and out, stand a better chance of impressing that elusive buyer if the aesthetics of the house are pleasing to the eye. Presenting your property has never been more important if you want to sell your home. Use contemporary furniture stylings to help create a clutter-free and modern environment.
Even if you don’t sell your home now you can be sure that your investment will be worthwhile when the market does improve. Remember contemporary furniture is more than just a statement, it’s a way of life and can help kick-start your house selling tactics.
It looks like there is only one colour to be decorating your home in this Christmas : Purple! From cards to tree decorations to christmassy ornaments, purple is the colour to be seen in this Christmas time. But why purple at Christmas time. We’ll Purple is an extremely emotional colour that represents a number of various things to many people. It is highly associated with Royalty and thus the correlation with the King of Kings being born on Christmas Day. It also very heavily associated with advertising rich luxorious products, which during the Christmas period is a well known excessive time.
I have always been more traditional at Christmas, splurging the house with red & greens until a few years back when silver and golds became much more fashionable. I do like these purple pluminess contemporary Christmas colours and they make the home feel even more exciting at this special time of the year.
The new Playstation development called Playstation Home was available for download today, 11th December 2008. The idea behind Playstation Home is to allow gamers (users) the ability to create a digital avatar of themselves that can interact with other users avatars. Each avatar will also have their own living quarters in cyberspace. And this is where it gets interesting. To achieve real life effects, each avatars living space or apartment has been designed by contemporary furniture designers Ligne Roset providing virtual furniture.
This is an ingenious way of branding from Playstation, as they have also enlisted the help of Diesel to help clothe the virtual community. Gamers can decorate their apartments with modern contemporary furniture to how they see fit and it is Playstations vision to invite more real-life companies onto Playstation Home to further enhance the gamers virtual world. Gamers can also sell on their ideas and items that they create within Home to other gamers and also real life companies who may like what they see. A virtual marketers dream world.
Like most people I like to be sociable and you’ll find me at my most sociable when I’m propping up the bar down at the local pub. Now, I’m reaching a certain age, I’m getting to thinking about turning one of the kids’ rooms into my own personal space. OK, fine, I know my kids are not even out of primary school yet, but you have to plan ahead, is my motto. Within my personal space I’m already decorating and filling the place with all types of man things : and the thing at the very top of my list is a Home Bar.
I like the look of the Aspirare Home Drinks Bar, very contemporary, sophisticated and pleasing on the eye.
Now that I have my bar, what else would I feel inclined to fill my own space with. How about a fruit machine? Nah, probably get bored playing with it. I know Defender Arcrade Game, I never had enough change to complete this in my mis-spent youth. Now with it sitting, waiting in my future home bar I’m sure I could crack it.
There has to be music somewhere … I want real music as well, I’m not big on Karaoke, I prefer my music not murdered, thank-you. Has to be a jukebox, American and big. Throw in a few novelty chairs and my future bar is beginning to take shape. A plasma TV screen on the wall and a dart board right beside it (joke) and my future bar is complete.
What would you add, in fact, how would you furnish a home bar? Use the comments below for your ideas.
Recently, I came across a new concept and style of taking photographs and videos called : Tilt Shift. The idea behind Tilt Shift is to photograph real life objects, places from above or a far-off distance then manipulate the image to create a miniature-scale model. It really is an ingenious idea and some of the creations using the technique are mind-blowing fantastic. It won’t be long before these Tilt Shift images will be called contemporary art.
Below we have highlighted some fake minatures for your enjoyment, please follow the links to find out more about the photographers whose work we have highlighted here at UK Contemporary Furniture.
It is getting near that time of year again where we see the furniture sites buy up some precious TV air time to advetise their wares. With contemporary furniture, it is slightly different, as it not yet a mass market in the mainstream, however more and more people are turning to modern furniture to help stamp their own mark with their interior furnishings.
With that said, how would you go about making a TV commercial for furniture. Get actors to mime to a rock tune? Show children bouncing on your yet-to-be-purchased living room sofa suite? Or would go for the following adverts currently doing the rounds in YouTube?
Make a rap about your Furniture Store :
Or Beat The Crap Out of Your Furniture Stock With a BaseBall Bat :
Perhaps Dress Your Staff up as Pirates and Make a Plank Out of Yourself :
I Say, I Say, Just Give Away Chicken with your Furniture … Aw, Man :
In the not too-distant-future don’t be suprised to find yourself sitting on your favourite chair in the house that arches over your head to reveal a Hi-Definition touch screen where you’ll be downloading the film you wanted to hire for the night and chatting to your buddies on Twitter as you all watch live streaming of the game that is being played just now. The door bell sounds and you flick the arm rest to reveal a small video monitor that shows the pizza delivery guy outside your door that you ordered and paid for online just 20 minutes ago. You pause the chair’s massage mode and shout the kids downstairs for dinner.
Yep, modern furniture of the future is going to play a large part in our lives. And furniture that looks good and has smart technology embedded within is going to be in great demand. Where did I get my crystal ball from, you may ask? We’ll let’s look back in time to see how the future is shaping up.
Remember Captain Kirk and crew from the 60’s Star Trek show? How could you not? Doors that opened for you, little mobile communication devices, chairs that bore a striking resemblance to the La-Z-Boy range. Waterbeds also came from Sci-Fi fiction and wall mounted flat screens Plasmas were first written about in 1953 by Ray Bradbury in the book, ‘Fahrenheit 451′. And let’s not even get started with George Orwell’s 1984, Comeye, allows you to speak with someone on a screen wirelessly, that is too spooky to be true.
So, next time your looking at the latest movie release or reading a new sci-fi novel, pay close attention to what pieces of future furniture their showing you or writing about, as it just might be a visionary glimpse of things yet to come. Which is kind of worrying in a way, because I just watched Wall-E, Disney’s latest animation release and found the floating chairs that carried the fat humans everywhere a little too discomforting.
On January the 20th 2009, America will place a new man at the helm of power, in what is commonly known as Inauguration Day. Barack Obama and his family will then move into the White House for the next 4 years at least. And, boy, does Mrs Obama, have a great chance to ‘make change’ in the White House by giving the place a modern contemporary makeover.
The Obama’s are seen as style icons, much in line with the Kennedy’s of the 60’s. They could certainly place their mark on such an important building. Obviously, there are official rooms that retain the sense-of-importance and as they have done for hundreds of years. Rooms like the Blue Room or the Diplomatic Room are there for social engagements and are vitually period pieces of a far-off time. But within the innards of the building the Obama’s will have their own private space where they can relax like any other family.
There is one sticking point before the Obama’s start stripping the wallpaper and start calling round their favourite contemporary furniture store. All purchases made to decorate the Executive mansion need to be approved by Congress.
It was a golden era for the silver screen and those who were part of it shall be forever remembered as demi gods within our culture. Stars such as Marlon Brando, John Wayne, Clark Gable shone in an era when scripts were filled with wonderful dialogue and even popular singers of that time, Elvis Pressley, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, were thrust onto the big screen with various levels of success. Vintage Hollywood it was and still is.
Here we highlight some classic images from that time and also products you can purchase that would add a touch of vintage Hollywood to any modern interior furnishings.
Audrey Hepburn Canvas Art, the Lady has it all…
Clark Gable Poster from Gone With the Wind.
John Wayne without the Horse and Hat, relaxing in 60’s stylish settings…
Hollywood Dining Plate, what some may have called crass now call class…
Elvis Shows Red can be used majestically in interior furnishings…
The Rat Pack canvas art - it’s hard to get cooler than this…
Unless of course your Al Pacino, then your cooler, even displayed in segments…
Ok, Ok, perhaps Al isn’t Vintage Holywood but he’s still worthy of an entry and adds such an explosive statement to any furnished room.
Now that I have my bar, what else would I feel inclined to fill my own space with. How about a fruit machine? Nah, probably get bored playing with it. I know Defender Arcrade Game, I never had enough change to complete this in my mis-spent youth. Now with it sitting, waiting in my future home bar I’m sure I could crack it. 
