Categorizing seems to be one of the natural human necessities in its eagerness to establish order, order that can be based on natural or artificial phenomenon (literature, thought schools, etc.). There are several denominations in literature that are useful to frame, class or categorize works and writers such as Classicism, Romanticism, Neo-Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, [...]
Thought you have seen it all? Eclectic and modern, this U$ 2,400 coffee table by Tsai Design Studio will turn your room upside down. With Chinese doorframe recollections, this table has as many angles as conquered design awards. Created by a Taiwan-born, South Africa based designer and architect this table turns out to be quite [...]
Glass, wood and chrome, can be put together and form quite a unique master piece. It is amazing how the combination of three –oh so different- materials can produce something absolutely coherent and apt for most houses. Metro is the name, metropolitan is the style. This is my choice, not only because I [...]
When you go shopping for a coffee table, you need to remember that there is a wide variety of colours, and you need to be ready to enter into the universe of design and style possibilities. Colour is the first thing you need to decide, it should match with the rest of the room and [...]
In his Philosophy of Furniture , Edgar Allan Poe begins by stating “In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme.” He compares American’s decoration style with the English taste and explains how differences are founded in the fact that since North America lacks nobility, the display [...]