September 30, 2022 By admin
The Unconventional Appeal of Modern Dining Room Furniture
If we trace the history of modern furniture design, we’ll find ourselves looking at the first half of the 20th century when modernist design shifted towards the functionality of furniture rather than its visual impact. Gone were the ornate and lavish, and then came the clean lines and the sturdy structure. Furniture designers were always competing against each other to produce the most original and avant-garde work. Following the path of the modernist movement, the unconventional designs of modern dining room furniture will propel the field of interior design into the future.
A most striking quality of modern dining room furniture is their clean design with smooth lines to create symmetry. Compare that with the classic style traditionally made from hardwood, such as mahogany, teak, and oak. These types of hardwood are tough and sturdy, and could last a long time so long as the furniture is polished with beeswax or protected regularly with varnish. Wood furniture usually features intricate carvings, but the process takes a long time and needs an artist’s skillful hands to create. Thus, it raises manufacturing costs, which further raise the retail prices for the furniture.
Because of new technology and synthetic materials, the process of manufacturing modern dining room furniture takes less time and opens a whole new world of possibilities. Young furniture designers successfully produced creative designs beyond the classic beauty of wood carvings and smooth fabric covers. These artists mostly came from Finland, Norway, and Denmark, where most schools of design adhere to modernist principles. Case in point, IKEA products thrive as best-sellers in many households, overcoming differences with ideas in furniture design and style.
More than the simplicity and symmetry of design, modern dining room furniture follows a minimal style frequently covered in monochromatic colors. Sometimes, the chairs and tables appear Zen-like with their flowing design and cubic shapes. Examples of this one-piece furniture are the chairs and the table base in the Tavoli and Sedie Dining Set for Two, designed by G. Carollo for the Italian furniture company, Porada. The chairs and the table’s one-piece base were created from plastic molds and covered in white leather.
Aside from wood and plastic, modern dining furniture were also made from metal and coated in ceramic. Designers use laser technology to cut patterns of swirls and spirals into the metal. Other furniture designers take advantage of advanced technology to create futuristic designs that will simply blow your mind. Some hi-tech examples include the Drop Dining Table designed by Studio Batoni for Esedra and the InducTable with an integrated induction grill. If these were just a glimpse of the future of modern dining room furniture, we surely look forward to exciting times ahead in furniture design and manufacturing.