Blog of B/A Sofas

The Suita Sofa is part of a large range that includes many individual pieces of furniture. They can all be mixed and matched for use in many different spaces in numerous ways. Suita pieces can be harmoniously integrated into existing arrangements and also create a collage with other pieces in the Suita range.

Suita comes in two different basic versions – with soft or firmer seat cushions – that serve to meet customers‘ various comfort needs. For the softer version, customers can choose between classic or pointed cushions. For the firmer version, the backrest cushions all have a classic cushion shape.

Some pieces in the Suita range can be fitted with a component that lengthens the backrest, which not only serves to offer the head more support, but also creates a kind of barrier from both noise and visual stimuli.

Shelves that are mounted on the back make the Suita Sofa, when placed away from walls, the perfect place for briefly working on a laptop when combined with a chair. If placed against a wall, the shelf creates additional storage or decoration space.

The Suita platform is very tightly upholstered and comes in two sizes. As a piece that is a cross between a table and an ottoman, the platform can be used for trays, books and magazines, or for tired feet.

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Designer Jaime Hayon has created FAVN Sofa for Danish furniture manufacturer Fritz Hansen. FAVN is translated as “embrace”, that fully reflects the concept of the sofa – it is designed to envelop you, follow the shape of the body and provide maximum comfort. Like other Jaime Hayon’s works, FAVN Sofa is a colorful and fresh solution for contemporary interior. Sofa is presented in rich colors – light gray, green, light beige, taupe, chocolate, mustard, red, purple, dark blue and black.  It includes a mix of three fabrics to express the form of its three main components; the shell, seat and back and decorative cushions. The combination of texture and tone is appealing to the visual and emotional senses.

The FAVN Sofa is a masterpiece with minimalist aesthetics. Low and inviting, its curving arms provide a welcoming area of rest for the tired and weary. More than that, the FAVN Sofa boasts sleek lines that provides an elegant vibe for whatever living space it is put in.

Recognized by his fresh, colorful and extrovert design style, the award winning artist-designer Jaime Hayon  is the most recent addition to Fritz Hansen’s family tree of designers. Hayón carries forward Fritz Hansen’s long tradition of working with some of the world’s most talented architect and designers.

“I wanted the sofa to be based on a shell. A shell being hard on the outside, soft and welcoming on the inside. I wanted to create a form that embraces you, something really organic – that’s why we named it FAVN,” says Jaime Hayón. FAVN will be available for sale in September 2011.

The coffee table is an oft overlooked piece of furniture, but the right coffee table can make or break a living room. But what makes a coffee table a coffee table? And what modern styles are out there?

Possibly the most defining feature of a coffee table is its long, low shape. It normally has shorter legs than a side table or a bistro table, and it is usually oval or rectangle as opposed to circular or square in shape. This is so that it can be placed in front of a sofa and compliment its long form and be at just the right height for easy access to anything on its surface.

However, not all coffee tables are created equal. These basic features don’t come close to describing a truly modern coffee table. Some are tall, some are short; some are wide, some are thin; some are made of wood, some are made of glass; and all of them can compliment their surroundings if placed appropriately.

You can have a coffee table that matches a handful of side tables, or you can create an eclectic look using a variety of shapes and styles. The coffee table you choose can be made of glass, wood, chrome, plastic or any material of your choosing, as long as it is sturdy and stable.

A coffee table is an integral part of a living room, because it centers all the other furniture. Your sofa set will pop if you incorporate the right coffee table – but it could fizzle if you choose the wrong one. Coffee tables are also used as a gathering place, so you’ll likely want yours to be warm and inviting.

Consider size, placement, texture and material when picking out your coffee table – you’ll thank yourself later.

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.

It happens that exactly looking at the living room it is possible to determine the character and preferences of owners of the house. In this room all the details are gathered which the owners want to show their guests. Some designers even call it the Vanity Fair.

Before the living room was considered to be the multifunctional room which combined the cabinet and dining room and place for having guests. The modern tendencies require the narrow specialization of the placement. Therefore soft and comfortable armchairs appear instead of universal sofa-beds and big table are replaced with small coffee tables. Many people refuse from the different cupboards in the living room making place free for other details of interior. Oftener the owners demonstrate the collections or just expensive elements of furniture showing their prosperity and sense of taste.

The modern designers of interior assign primary importance to the comfort. Comfortable furniture, home theater and many small details of interior provide the comfort of the guests and help filling the picture.

Furniture sets for living room are very popular. Some of them have lightness and laconism, others help creating festive and merry mood, others have strict and business classic style which is appropriate for absolutely all living rooms owing to combinations of many styles and orientations.

Carpets also come into fashion but only on the floor. Using of small pillows in decorating of living room allow adding warm and comfortable atmosphere. Flowers help adding freshness to the room, and small statuettes – charm and exotic.

The name of soft furniture system “Jalis” is taken from Arabic language and means calmness and comfort in any conditions. It is obvious that the source of inspiration for the authors of these low and comfortable sofas, for their creators, became exactly the orient culture of furnishing of interiors. The Arabian tradition of relaxation was embodied into cosmopolitan furniture concept diversity from one form.

Jalis can float, rest on pedestals, integrate or highlight tables, change levels, and incorporate niches and floor recesses.

The authors of stylish sets – German design studio Jehs + Laub – worked them out for famous German company-producer COR. The structure of model is disarmingly simple and comfortable for perception both visually and functionally. There are no any complicated elements, templates or refined decoration. Common pillows placed vertically and horizontally on the simple but elegant pedestal.

However lack of strength and reliability of the pillows jauntily “thrown” on the podium is quite deceptive because those of them which serve as the side elements and backset are fixed quite thoroughly and hard. And for the clients who prefer more traditional variants the designers offer instead of podium the metallic “base” which airy raises the pillows above the floor.

Disregarding the place of location this soft system of sittings creates the feeling of safety and comfort. Owing to the neutrality of appearance it can be adopted to very wide specter of stylish decisions. Sofa Jalis will be especially appropriate in such actual interior orientations as loft or Marrakech.

This Contemporary “Brooklyn Heights” Living Room Set offers the world of style and a sense of comfort. A combination of top quality genuine leather and chrome stylish legs, the “Brooklyn Heights” Leather Living Room Set is the perfect way to complement any contemporary decor.

This set includes: Sofa, Loveseat, and Armchair. The set introduces attractive modern design with horizontal folds on the back and seating area with high scrolled armrests. The set is in 2-Tone Half Leather allowing you to use more than just one color to decorate your room.

The black skillfully matched vinyl (PVC Leather) covers the bottom and the back of the pieces and Grey Genuine Leather covers the rest.

The pieces feature not only comfortable seating, but high quality frame construction providing the durability to last.

This stylish transforming furniture for small-size apartments was worked out by Italian designers for order of American company-producer Resource Furniture. The offered variants of forming of comfortable space can with dignity replace less ergonomic cupboards, tables, chairs, beds and many other elements of furniture.

Life in the overpopulated mega polis like both in the provincial city requires some compromises. The apartments were most of the city dwellers live are not big. Therefore very few happy owners of big apartments and private houses can allow themselves many separate elements of furniture.

On the common background of offers of “compact” furniture these multipurpose elements of furniture distinguish with harmonic combination of aesthetic uncompromising and democratic loyalty towards the possibility of small space.

For example, one of Resource Furniture’s projects – the DOC Space Saving System consists of a comfortable sofa that becomes a practical, sturdy bunk bed with one simple lifting motion. It includes a completely integrated ladder which also functions as a bed support and a safety rail for the top bunk.

Founded in 2000 by Steve Spett and Ron Barth, Resource Furniture has gained a reputation for providing Interior Designers, Architects and Specifies access to unique furniture. Whether your project calls for top level executive furnishings, the award winning residential products or unique space saving items, Resource Furniture will be your choice.

It is accepted to consider that loggia is a continuation of apartment and therefore it should be in same style with it. But the modern canons of design of interior allow departing from this rule and decorate the design of loggia in quite another manner.

If loggia or balcony are glassed-in then it is possible to place there sofas with soft pillows and armchairs and chairs with soft sittings. On the small place the folding wood table or table with collapsible mechanism will be located well. It is possible to put there the small stools or light folding chairs. If you like to spend time alone you will obligatory like rocking chair. If the space allows the great variant is wicker furniture. The nice variant of transformation of loggia can become its decorating as a small library for what the shallows bookstands are placed or shelves are hanged.

The additional lighting from the table lamp, standard lamp or scone will create coziness, especially in the evening time. And during the day tents or living fences of climbers will protect from sun. The special decorativeness and coziness the well-chosen pots, floor vases or cases with plants and flowers can create.

Having the big glass doors from floor to the ceiling the balcony is the continuation of the room and then it is decorate in the same style with it. New variants of doors are enough airtight and able to keep warmth in the room even with the big surface of glass. Placing in the loggia or terrace the pots or floor vases with flowers it is desirable to choose plants by the color gamut.

Hall is the first room which people who come to our home see making the first impression about you. Therefore furniture in the hall should combine such qualities as elegancy and practicality. The main parameter which you are guided with when you buy furniture to your hall is the size of this room. Traditionally the set of furniture for hall consist of wardrobe, mirror, rack, cupboard for shoes, chest and shelf for hats.

If the space allows you, place here built-in wardrobe. Small sofa will also be very appropriate. If the size of hall is limited, pay your attention to the padded stool, bench or stool. According to your desire you can add to your hall some elements for its coloring; that can be, for example, forged stand for umbrellas. Purchasing the furniture for your hall give the preferences to the models with “close” or mirror doors. The furniture equipped with mirrors will visually extend the space of placement.

One of the most popular kinds of furniture for hall is considered the wardrobe. The wardrobe is very capacious and equipped with sliding doors. Such wardrobes are usually placed along the wall or built in its surface. Other popular kind of furniture for hall is the various tables of small size where it is accepted to put telephones or newspapers. It is also possible to place several shelves for flowers or decorative elements.

It is impossible to overestimate the meaning of furniture for shoes which make the interior of any hall to be stylish and modern. Shelves, cupboards and stands for shoes will allow you always keeping shoes in ideal order. Being different by their construction, capacity, material and color they will satisfy the taste of any consumer.

Furnishing your hall do not forget about the lighting. The optimal variant is when you have several lightings which make the placement light and bright and emphasize elements of furniture.