Furniture Calligaris

It's always our mission here at Chroemtastic to seek out the best designs for the home in our own style. For chrometastic has its own set of aesthetic values.

We came across this collection of furniture by Calligaris while surfing the web, and have to say it is very cool. Loving the woodpecker logo. Is it just me or does all the best stuff right now have avian logos? Am thinking Carhartt duck, Penguin clothes, Puffin books. All smart stuff.

design of websites

This blog is mainly about interior design, but design itself is an overriding interest here at Chrometastic. Especially now that there's even a browser called chrome. And yes, that is my favoured web browser.

The interesting thing about websites is that there's never been an accepted or standard way to do things. This has led to some incredibly inventive sites, and to things like blogging becoming big, then social networking taking off.

With smartphones now the norm, and tablets taking off web design remains at the heart of innovation.

Was it really only ten years ago that websites had that unmistakeable Y2K look? It feels like it was a different century.

Now that the old type of light bulb is on the way out and the long life low energy bulb is king, it means that it takes a bit more effort to light a room. This is probably no bad thing, as two or three soft light sources is better than a single 100 watt bulb. Does it save any energy? Probably not, but hey.

Especially important are directional, concentrated lights sources. Have a browse through furniture online and see what would help light up your living room.

Anish Kapoor chrome sculpture

Anish Kapoor's sculptures are often simple shapes made of chrome. Interacting and reflecting with their surroundings, they show changed perspectives and interrogate the nature of perception.

Picture: Oren Rozen via Wiki

Digg

Streetband - Toast (1978) vs Bodum toaster (2010)

I'll bet that when Streetband sang the song Toast on Top of the Pops in 1978 (yes, that's soon to be famous and eventually to be ex-famous soul singer Paul Young on vocals), they would have thought that 32 years later people would be eating futuristic food like green gloop and entire meal-in-a-pill. All of this done in space, or at least on board a jetpack.

But no, we're all still eating toast. Toasters have moved on a lot since 78 though. Think back to what you had then, a little metal walled job that got mad hot on the outside, and more often than not carbonized the kids' breakfast while they fought over whose turn it was on the Atari Space Invaders.

Toasters in 2010 are better machines, and also often use a design aesthetic rather than sit forlornly in the corner of the kitchen. This Bodum toaster is a good example of a fine modern toaster:

The >>perfect>> living space

With the World Cup beginning to hot up, and the weather as well, I thought I'd post a few words on my ideas for the ideal living space.

I think the ideal living space is one that thinks big - big windows, big telly, high ceiling. If you want the first of these, a move to Holland would be in order - the standard house windows there are massive. As for the big telly, you're now talking standard, run-of the-mill tellies being at least 42" screen. I think I'll wait til they hit a 60" standard before shelling out. I also need a TV with genuine cinema ratio. When I get one of those, there's a very good chance I may never leave the house ever again :-]

The other essential is of course a big sofa. Bigger the better,really. A big sofa can almost function as a living space in its own right - a kind of microcosm where you can spend a lot of quality chill time. But the problem I have with the BIG SOFA is that it can sometimes look a bit out of place, like it's just landed there. As with all problems though, there is a perfect solution: the corner sofa. What these do is of course fit the corner of the room, and thus blend in with it. Never trust anyone who when alone in a room with a corner sofa in it, doesn't spend at least five minutes sinking into it and going "ahhh ... I wish I had one of these"!

And amazingly, these sofas don't cost an arm and a leg. Get yourself down to your furniture retail store and give the corner sofas a try. It's a whole new chill experience.



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