The Trilogy: Glass tables, bookcase and TV unit.
Before reviewing our next style, let’s stop for a reflection on the importance of sticking to a style. Have you ever been to a house where the owners have insisted on proudly displaying every piece of ornament (traveling memorabilia, souvenirs, vases, etc; etc; etc.) that has fallen into their avid hands? I have, and I am very much obliged to say that the result wasn’t something to be proud of.
The same happens with furniture: We purchase the table and chairs, then we fall in love with a sofa and we must get it. Afterwards, we decide to buy a display cabinet and to top it all up, somebody gives us as present a beautiful carpet, so we place it on our floor. Now, do all the pieces that we collected go together well? Is there any coherence between them? Key question indeed! If texts need to be cohesive and coherent, the same goes for our rooms.
Of course, this does not imply an urge to exactly match everything with everything, mirroring every piece we have. It only implies and suggests the wise decision to make sure that it goes well together. Take poems, for example; some of them have a more acute rime than others; some poetry despises rime, but even the latter, still keeps a sense of harmony.
Since we talked about verse, let’s present the Trilogy (not Greek Trilogies, also written in verse, nor the Trilogy Lord of the Rings –for I believe we have had enough of that already- but the Trilogy range from Glass Tables and Chairs). For the ones of us that are fond of imparities, that like symmetry but not in an obvious way, here is the number 3.
Why always have a four-legged table when you can get out of the box and have a three-legged one? The Trilogy collection brings, as Greek tragedies do, a touch of drama into our living room. It seems that it couldn’t be more far off than a Greek tragedy, for the range itself is one of the most modern ones, but as Greeks insisted on displaying their myths, the Trilogy range is a contemporary mythology: It’s edgy and paradoxically (let’s not forget how paradox is the sign of our modern times), its edges are neatly cut. Chrome for the legs and glass for the surfaces conform the materials specifications; the number three is the logic, contemporary and modern is the style. This might be the oomph to your room was looking for!
