We caught up with Ross Wilson,
owner of urbantonic this month to
chat all things furniture…
Over the last four years I have
travelled extensively attending
between two to three Furniture Fairs
a year in Cities like Milan, Singapore,
Shanghai and Guangzhou. In
particular, over the last year the
strong international trend that I
have seen emerge at Milan and
followed up in Shanghai, has been
what I call “That 70’s Scandinavian
Show”.
Our adventurous clients have
really bought into this trend.
Basically take the furniture from
the lounge of Ashton Kutcher and
Mila Kunis’s show and throw in
some Scandinavian sophistication.
The lines are rectangular, clean
and minimalist. The legs, feet and
armrests are light Beachwood
(the metal Eames style chair leg
or any metal leg for that matter is
on the way out in my opinion) and
then have the seat of PU or PC
(Polyurethane or Polycarbonate –
basically two different grades of
Plastic) or fabric. The colour pallet
Event Affairs // Feature
urbantonic
is rather 70’s as well – Pastel, and
for the bold, Vibrant Pastel. Think
olives, ochre’s, brown’s, off creams
but with stronger depths of colour.
Two tone colours are also very big.
Think tan seat with olive arm and
backrests or Beachwood legs and
white sprayed seat (The Woodrow
featured below).
The “Natural Rustic Look” has not yet
run its course yet. Pallet tables, bars,
couches and now the cross-back
chair (pictured below). However,
what is happening is “Vintage” and
“Modern” are being added to the
mix. For example, take a vintage
double seater Queen Anne couch
and add modern feature chairs
like the Happy Chair or the Perspex
Spider chair with a glass topped
coffee table.
The key is you must experiment,
don’t allow all the furniture to look
the same but mix and match whilst
keeping sophistication in your look.
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