Blog of B/A Sofas

Every child likes to have his own comfortable chair and enjoy among the family members. Usually we have the chairs ranging from high chairs to big table chairs, but nothing as yet for a growing kid. There comes a time in every child’s life when they’ve outgrown the high chair but still aren’t quite big enough for a table chair. Sweet Seat, the maker of unique and high-quality booster seats for kids, has come up with a child chair which suits your kid in every manner. The company makes unique and high-quality booster seats for kids allowing them to comfortably enjoy fun during meals, playtime, craft and much more. Nine differently designed, brightly printed, adorable mini seats for boys and girls give a place at the table no matter where they go.

The smartly-designed booster seats can be safely placed on top of any dining chair in a slip-free position. The chair with armless silhouette provides the perfect table height for the child and also frees arms, legs and feet. These seats are covered with high-quality laminate cotton that makes them ultra-durable and long-lasting. They are portable and easy to clean after every mealtime. With a compact design and convenient portability, it’s just as perfect to use at home as it is on-the-go and will have on-lookers stopping in their tracks to find out where you got that adorable chair.

Sweet Seats are tailor made for the kids between 18 months and 7 years. They come in a mix of trendy and classic prints including Pink Floral, Black & White, Houndstooth and Aqua with Cherry Red Dots. The eye-catching variants are available for online purchase at the Sweet Seat e-commerce store for a price of $84.

The Tria Chair was designed by Lorenz-Kaz for Italian furniture manufacturer Cole. The two designers, Catharina Lorenz and Steffen Kaz worked together on this urban chair design that features modern twists. The hole in the middle of the chair helps the equilibrium and design to stay focused on the visual appeal as well as the comfort feature. Inspired by the impossible forms of Dutch graphic artist and engraver Maurits Escher, it defines itself in a game of twists and elusive leak. The Tria Chair features three identical elements assembled in a beautiful and contemporary shape.

This creates a unique array of colors that seem to be chasing one after another. Use it to sit on its centre or on the side, the chair still looks and feels amazing. The shell is made of plywood – natural oak or stained black oak – while the legs are available in chromed metal, solid natural or stained black oak.

The Tria Chair is a very straightforward design. The Tria Chair is a functional type of chair that can be used for any purpose whether at home or in the office. Just to give an idea, Tria Chairs would be perfect for small restaurants and coffee shops or even in a minimalist dining room if you want to add that modern feel. Also, reception area or in any consultation room in the office will give it a nice modern attitude.

2001 Steffen Kaz and Catharina Lorenz founded the design studio Lorenz * Kaz in Milan, working for clients like Antonio Lupi, Bedont, DePadova, DuPont, Omnidecor, Rossin, Present Perfekt, Zeitraum, Zoltan. Apart from working for other clients, they launched their own furniture line, which they produce and sell under the label Lorenz * Kaz.

Clifford Furnitureis a youthful designer who isn’t afraid to experiment. He started in design by working with wood at the young age of 15, and hasn’t looked back since. This sparked his interest in working with as many of native species of wood as possible. Whilst learning about the working properties of wood he became interested in furniture making. With a relatively small number of designs under his belt, Clifford still has to prove himself – but his beginnings are definitely promising.

Look at the Conversation Seating above. There is nothing better than having an in-depth conversation that piques your interest and stimulates your mind, and Clifford pounces on this idea with gusto. The two chairs are joined near the base, facing each other, at a comfortable distance for either couples or strangers to make eye contact and have a deep discussion.

Below is Clifford’s Rocket Table. It features a retro-modern design that is a bit space-agey – hence the name Rocket Table. We love its mix of wood and glass, and the texture in the stripes that circle around the base. This would look wonderful paired with a low platform white leather sofa.

Clifford’s designs use simple lines and show a willingness to experiment with material and style. He is still finding his footing as a designer, and we look forward to seeing what he has in store for us in the future.

London designer Benjamin Hubert launched the chair with a pressed-felt shell for Dutch brand Devorm at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month. Called Pod, the chair has a steam-bent ash frame while the seat is pressed in one piece from felt made of recycled plastic bottles. The product comes flat-packed and the shells stack inside each other for transportation. Cushions are made of recycled foam with fabric covers in contrasting colours.

The ‘Pod’ is a large privacy chair for breakout areas in offices or residential projects. Pod is an environmental alternative to large upholstered furniture. Most upholstery is difficult to recycle as it’s a fixed combination of timber, glue, foam and textile. Pod tackles this by replacing the large upholstery with moulded felt created from recycled PET bottles. In addition the entire design is knock down with the shells stacking for minimum carbon footprint in transportation and storage.

The chair’s ergonomics allow the user to work comfortably whilst feeling relaxed and separated from the hustle and bustle of daily life. It creates a room-in-room experience with the perimeter of the chair around the user’s head.

The shell of the chair is the largest form ever produced utilising pressed PET felt technology. This felt allows a distinctive aesthetic as well as offering sound-dampening properties to increase the sensation of privacy with acoustic performance.

Thanks to its strict lines, color design and hidden features, furniture by De Vorm is surprising, contemporary and timeless. The central aims of our design are comfort, quality and permanence.

However, what occupies our minds the most, is the added value of De Vorm designs. We are not developing and producing a chair or a table just to sit on or at it. Designs by De Vorm are also made to enjoy their use and looks.

Velichko Velikov already recommended himself as an author of experimental furniture. This time he presented the merry positive chair called Lastika chair which producer became the famous Italian company LAGO.

According to the words of the author, light and “airy” Lastika chair looks like the flower – colorful chamomile which happy owner will be hold with forty firm elastics fulfilling the function of sitting and creating the effect of spring.

In spite of outward fragility and seeming unreliability of colorful elastics stretched on the firm base this unique structure is very steady and promises the long exploiting term. The guarantee of such characteristics is the company LAGO just the name of which says about the high quality and fill with confidence.

Merry and comfortable armchair will become the wonderful supplement of the modern interior of any placement. Living room, children room, youth studio, cabinet, club, office or open terrace of the country house will return to life and change with the appearance of this playful colorful flower becoming the place of attraction for grown-ups and children.

Graduated from the university in Russe (Bulgaria) in 2000 Velichko Velikov got the MA in industrial design, then he worked with several leading European producers and headed the project department of company NIKROM Ltd – the biggest producer of furniture in Bulgaria. At the present time the talented designer lives and works in London (Great Britain) where he reads lectures about design and works out the creative concepts for European furniture market.

New collection of transparent furniture by Japanese designers Nendo will be presented on show in Milan this week. The pieces in the series include a unique chair made from polyurethane film, an acrylic table top cast from deep-grained wood and a lamp shade made from a clear film that diffuses light when seen straight-on.

The furniture collection explored transparency, but with a difference: not transparency that seeks only to disappear visually, but the half-transparency that exists in gradations in the space between the transparent and the opaque, and the minute differences visible between different levels of transparency.

All pieces explored transparency’s infinite nuances, but were constructed from different materials, pointing to the possibility of new functionalities and visual effect. Looking at the chair, it seems to consist of nothing but a backrest and armrests. It wraps and supports the body like a hammock, providing a light, floating feeling for the sitter.

The two tables have specific and different optical effects: at first glance the black table is wood, but a closer look reveals its transparency, while the clear table is the transparent at first glance, and only later reveals its wooden form.

The pendant lamp uses a type of protective film that is semi-transparent when viewed directly, and transparent when viewed at an angle. The light source is placed at the center of the ring of film, creating a lampshade that might be transparent, but mutes the light emitting from its center through the layer of half-transparency regardless of the angle from which it is viewed. The light hits the film at a right angle, creating the effect of soft light spilling into the space of the room as it passes through the transparent lampshade.

French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will present this wooden chair for Italian brand Mattiazzi in Milan next month. Called Osso, the design has four sculpted wooden pads making up the seat and backrest. The chairs are made from oak, maple or ash sourced close to Mattiazzi’s factory. Each one is manufactured with a mixture of CNC tooling and handcraft. The collection will include a chair, armchair and child’s chair plus high and low stools.

Working with Mattiazzi is comparable to work with an organic farm. While being a small, family-owned company that has been manufacturing chairs for others since about forty years, Mattiazzi decided to do less yet better. By using sophisticated CNC set of tools and at the same time a greatly refined manual know-how, Mattiazzi has a hybrid way to consider furniture production.

The Osso chair had to be the illustration of what Mattiazzi is in its roots. They designed an object in plain wood but not in regular plain wood, the quality of the wood literally makes the object, like the best piece of meat would make the refinement of a dish. Our intention was to let the sensuality of the wood material – from oak to maple to ash – express itself.

The Osso chair invites to be touched, even caressed as it is extremely sculpted and polished thanks to the use of highly sophisticated digital control equipment. The high-tech assembling system of geometrical wood panels allows a quite singular strength while preserving a design balance of the object.

If your interior is in need of stylish modern chairs that should be LumBar Stool designed by James Douglas. This chair actually developed from thousands of layers of earth movement. It’s going to be very powerful accent for organic spaces (especially homes with attached bar sections).

This chair is appears almost dangerous in how it is strangely reminiscent of the edges of the Grand Canyon, the sides of steeply sliced waterfalls in Venezuela or crumbling desert rock formations in Jordan. This stool would be an amazing accent in wide organic spaces that use a lot of natural materials and colors. As it’s made of plywood, it would be great to see a designer use this for an outdoor bar or lounge.

“I aimed to create a stool in which the user would be almost deifying gravity, being suspended above the floor on a tiny stem yet being fully supported. Plywood was the perfect material to use because the edge detail was a great way to create a contour and sediment look of my influential starting point.

It is constructed using 38 1″ layers of CNC cut ply board stacked on top of one another connected by one single 12mm steel bar located down the centre of the stool, which is simply tightened up by a nut and bolt system.”

Though coffee is a morning drink but somebody will not refuse from the cup of coffee at night. Those who are going to work all the night or such coffee lovers like designer Sunhan Kwon from South Korea who devoted to this wonderful drink his recent creation, – chair “Coffee Chair”.

We think that there is no need to explain even to the most inattentive readers why the chair is called exactly this way, – everything is very clear. “Coffee Chair” makes you think of a cup of fragrant coffee. This unique design arouses the imagination that you drink a cup of coffee in a nice cafe. It is a storytelling design chair. If you look in front of the chair, it really seems that there is a cup and a saucer in front of us. Only you cannot pour coffee inside and put it on the table.

“Coffee Chairs” are farsightedly painted in three colors. Probably black is espresso, brown – cappuccino, and white symbolizes latte. As they say, drinks for any taste, – stronger, weaker and for gourmets. By the way the handle here plays not only the aesthetic function that it looks more alike but also practical. On this handle the bag or outwear can be hanged and it will not fall on the floor for sure. Coffee Chair” satisfies you both aspects, functional and decorative design, and certainly differentiates with other chairs, therefore can be used in cafes, restaurants, design companies and etc.

These chairs will be produced by design-studio He Was Born with which the author of project Sunhan Kwon collaborates.

One of the culmination elements of the living room is usually correctly chosen sofa or couch. In the case if your soft furniture is made by German company-producer COR this rule have no exclusions.

Brightness, richness of color or originality of form create “the mood” of your living room. Cozy and charm or minimalist and perfect.

It is possible to create coziness and “hearfulness” around any of these beautiful and unrepeatable models. For example, by putting on the floor fleecy carpet or throwing on the sofa “allsorts” of colorful and texture pillows and wool plaid, letting the cat in the room or placing the beautiful plants, lighting or switching on the fireplace.

For example, one of the real masterpieces of COR’s collection is Cuvert. Trapezoidal surfaces form a cube that seems to hover in space: from an austere basic shape, Cuvert unfolds a soft, padded inter­ior. The subtle ensemble, comprising easy chairs, sofas in three widths and stools, offers a high level of comfort. An appealing ­option: finished in a combination of leather and fabric. Coloured coffee tables made of acrylic and felt carpets with wool appliqués complete the world of Cuvert.

In 1955 Prince Bentheim Tecklenburg and Leo Lübke began manufacturing upholstered furniture in Rheda-Wiedenbrück under the name of COR – Latin for heart. This was because three hearts embellished the coat of arms of the founders. Barely a year later it was honored with the first of many awards – the march of COR into the nation’s homes had begun.