Monthly Archives: June 2013

Sectional Sofa’s by Abbyson Living

With a careful and intricately balanced relationship of design, size and comfort, the all new Devonshire top-grain leather sectional is the kind of must-have furniture piece that can add timeless luxury to the most important place in your home. This exclusive collection captures the grand styling of old warm charm while providing an added contemporary flair to any living space. This beautiful leather sectional was designed for the discerning individual with an eye for both comfort and class.

Invisible Furniture!

Using the material properties of mirror finished acrylic, brooklyn-based designer Takeshi Miyakawa has created the illusion of disappearing chairs and tables, the assembled pieces are also bent and distorted with heat to create intricate wrinkle-like textures throughout the surface planes.

Creative, artistic, imaginative… and likely to cause a sharp increase in bruised knees and stubbed toes.

More art than furniture?

IBM’s Smarter Street Furniture Initiative

Famous for their progressive thinking and innovative brilliance, IBM‘s latest project in their ‘people for smarter cities’ campaign involves art, furniture and a whole new approach to street level advertising.

Aeron Chair – 5 Reasons to Buy One Now

Ok, no beating around the bush here… let’s dive right in…

Reason #1 – Unparalleled Quality:

With the Aeron Chair by Herman Miller you get only the absolute finest quality in material and design. The legendary Office Chair manufacturers are renowned for their superior quality and attention to detail. With the purchase of an Aeron you can rest assured that you are receiving an item that is of the highest standard and second to none in quality craftsmanship.

Reason #2 – Unique Ergonomic Design:

One of the primary benefits of owning a top-quality Office Chair, is the incredible difference in posture and ergonomics that the superior design of a chair such as the Aeron will afford. All of the sudden you will feel more energized after sitting for long periods of time at the office, and needless to say the amount of strain and wear that it will save on you spine and back muscles is priceless!

Best Outdoor Furniture

We spend the bulk of our time here on the Madison Seating Blog discussing the finer points of indoor home or office furniture, and I would like to dedicate this post to the unsung furniture heroes who are asked to continually brave the elements of the great outdoors, while still providing functional comfort on demand. I have selected for your viewing pleasure, the following few “outdoor weather-warriors” and would welcome your feedback on these models or any general thoughts on the topic of outdoor furniture.

Have a look… 

Walking Desks. Furniture or Fad?

The “walking” or “treadmill”  desk is the perfect remedy for those of us who have had a gym membership for the past five years and are still gearing up for our first visit. It’s trendy, sensible and it’s potential benefits could fill a blogpost of their own.

It seems that this is a growing furniture trend that we are slowly seeing more of…

But will it stick?

Trends are fickle things… what catches on and what slips away often has less to do with the soundness or sense of the idea and more to do with the pop culture perspective towards it.

Five years from now, will we 9 to 5’ers be walking our way through the day with the walking desk a fixture in the corporate world, or will the idea of treadmill desks have faded from societies collective horizon completely…