By: Martina Celegato
Submitted: 2009-11-10 08:12:04 | Word Count: 567
The charm of tradition and past never goes out of fashion, but mainly regarding furniture it remains timeless classic, solid and elegant to furnish always with taste.
The classic furniture now interacts with the modern, this is now also seen in major international exhibitions of furniture, but also and especially in the production of the Italian craftsmanship. The wood is in fact the undisputed protagonist of this new trend, pierced and engraved with the inclusion of details in mother-of-pearl and precious stones in the pieces of memory revisited in a contemporary key. For an elegant décor, which can arrange a whole furniture even with a few selected furniture creating the right atmosphere. The craftsmanship blends with excellence of the details, almost always luxury, the result of virtuosity.
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We appreciate so very different expressive techniques: the mirror of Venetian tradition and the lacquer, wrought iron and trimming, the briar and finishes of silver and gold leaves. A return to ornament is one of the major trends at this time. The classic furniture is the other side of the coin with contemporary furnishing, which often threatens the approval at the international level: the classic, however, renewing a rich heritage of culture and know-how, even call into play the issue of modern. The two languages can coexist perfectly well, as evidenced in the countless sector exhibitions, where the richness of the research carried out by hand-craft enterprises is explored but also the results of the consolidation of traditional furniture are presented.
Revisiting classic style furnishings in a modern way is not so simple and obvious, yet several companies are doing it very successfully, for example by combining modern colors with traditional furniture. This way you can give a new dress, trendy, young and fresh to classic furniture to furniture that for materials and workmanship have always been considered a guarantee of strength, endurance and beauty. Join together solid wood and leather eel, Baroque and Renaissance shapes, with unusual color for the classic style, but having all the signs of the contemporary.
The classic style can be considered only as a bulwark of the past, instead we must consider that even in fashion and style nothing new is created, and indeed the classical style and the production of wood furniture will never go out of fashion, because it is inspired by patterns and forms that are still present.
A mobile in classic style furnishings will never seem ever too old and outdated, like now for example, we consider the decor of the psychedelic '70s. Even in these modern apartments and homes this furniture will always find the right place, because they are the fruit of the union of the timeless charm of yesteryear combined with the full charge of the present. Not to mention that these pieces are often more robust and resilient than mass-manufacturing, and therefore much better suited to last in time undergoing various accidents that in the home happen frequently. It is probably true that the other costs less, but they will also need continuous repairs, or even be thrown away to buy new ones. The classic furnishings are rather an investment to last a long time.
