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Posts tagged “seating - sofas & armchairs”

Mr. Hyde at That's Design

A Chesterfield for the future? Students Isaac Pineir, Pablo Pita, and Martin Franzen debuted this concept at Milan Design Week 2008: Exansaldo. It's an interesting juxtaposition of angles and lines w...

Gradin Road Westport Sofa

When you have a small space, the option of opening your home to overnight guests can pose a challenge. An Aerobed must be stored in its off-season. A foldout sofa often demands that you rearrange th...

Daybed by Doshi Levien

Flashes of warm weather invite us to change our decor. Perhaps it's the yearning to visit exotic places but when it heats up, we notice we're drawn to exotic patterns and pieces that underscore that ...

Vintage Furniture of a Sort: Coffin Couches

Call us crazy (and I know plenty of you will), but I'm loving these couches made of 18 gauge steel coffins salvaged from local funeral homes primarily in Southern California (keep recycling local!). T...

Peel Convertible Seating by Council

Here's convertible furniture at its most basic and most modular, reminiscent of the furniture available during the early days of NY's Soho and loft living when it first exploded into design conciousne...

Olivia Sofette from Pottery Barn

In a small room, when you’ve already sacrificed square footage, you don’t want to make any more compromises. Thumbing through the most recent Pottery Barn Catalogue, we stopped on this sofette, a...

Look! The Vitsoe Chair System - A Chair Becomes a Couch

We’re a big fan of Vitsoe's shelving units here at AT. Did you know that they also make this chair? Every bit as classic, yet every bit as modern, we love the streamlined look and the arms, sturdy...

Round Up: Chesterfield Sofas

The Barocco by Zanotta is Chesterfield modern Grace’s post on Poltona Frau’s version, reminded us how much we love Chesterfield sofas. We know it’s not in keeping with our “small” theme th...

N.O.L. Magazine Rack Bench: Seating and a Library in One

We're all about optimizing space (we're trying to do that very thing with our tiny closet spaced home office right now), so we definitely took notice of this seating solution that doubles up as your o...

Ping Collection's ZipZip

We've posted about zip rugs before...how about a zipper connecting modular floor seating solution that can go from bed to wraparound seating in just a few zips......

So Fresh and So Clean: Poltrona Frau's White Chesterfield Sofa

OK, we admit that tend to post a LOT about mid-century modern furniture. So to kick off the weekend, we're going to spotlight something a little bit different: check out this revamped Chesterfield so...

Field Sofa by Jantze Brogard Asshoff

Inspired by Swedish folk costumes, the boxy shaped Field Sofa is definitely cute as its buttons. And we're just in love with the contrasting colours of the rich blue sofa and the small, but noticeable...

LA Good Questions: Printed Fabrics On Tufted Sofas?

AT:LA reader PhillyLass wrote in with a question for all you readers out there about tufted sofas: Hi AT:LA! I love, love, love the look of tufted sofas, but I'm wondering if I can get away with a pri...

Sitscape: Seating For Any Position or Pose

The Sitscape was designed to accomodate for up to 7 different resting position, its customizable contoured shape created by cutout laminated pieces of wood, pieced together through a steel and aluminu...

ODDA guest bed with storage at IKEA

The other day, Laure's post about what to do if you don't have a guest room, brought out a bunch of great ideas. Here's another one we saw recently at IKEA. The ODDA guest bed is sort of a modified pu...

Eve Yun Designs

Inspired by nature, from Korea and a new player in town. These 60's inspired pieces are getting us in the mood for a cocktail party. All the details after the cut plus some ideas for how to finish ...

Hot or Not? Jayson Home & Garden Vintage Suzani Chair

Do two vintage rights make a wrong? We love suzanis, and we love the style of a bergere chair...but is this too over-the-top? ...

The Dock Downtown: Sofas

We often mention The Dock Downtown in our Sales calendar since they always seem to have something on an even deeper discount than normal. And lately with Paris on our minds we did a double take whe...

Blogging...Waive by Matthias Pliessnig

[ Photo from Design Boom ] When we spied Matthias Pliessnig's new Waive chair, we absolutely swooned! It doesn't hurt that we're suckers for bent wood furniture either. Made from oak and steamed i...

Styro-Home? The Stryofoam Couch

We've seen styrofoam chandeliers before, so why not a styrofoam couch? Well of course, there's all those annoying bits of fallen off foam that will static cling onto anyone who sits on it. But perhaps...

Astoria Chair at Room and Board: The Squiggle Chair

In honor of Maxwell's squiggle a day we thought we'd feature this squiggle chair from Room and Board. It's playful, it could probably stand to have food splashed on it without really showing up, an...

LA Good Questions: Large Couch vs. Small Door

Dear AT:LA, I recently bought my first condo and my couch that is a gem, beautiful mid-century piece I just bought in August from a Palm Spring antique store would not fit it in the door. I have been ...

What's In a Name: The Licensing Issue?

[ Photo from Daniel Donelly ] Question: "Do you think I should buy one of these red Eames LCWs from a licensed retailer, or keep hunting online and hope a vintage will pop up?" Bert said, "Buy it ...

Coyote Ugly? Small Fur Hammock by Bless

We found this hammock at an unlikely source: Kanye West's blog. Now there's a guy who can actually afford one of these high-end (and highly controversial) hammocks: Lined with plush coyote fur and ...

Thinking Pink: Pink Sofas

[ Photos from Snoopy126's Flickr, Absolutely Beautiful Things, and design*sponge ] "And last week I saw Cameron Diaz at Fred Segal, and I talked her out of buying this truly heinous angora sweater....

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