If you are fascinated by the furnishings of the past, this article is the right choice. Here are 10 ideas for effective vintage furniture.
At the base of vintage furniture there is a very simple and basic concept: there are objects that will never lose their charm, if you are able to appreciate them.
This principle can be applied to all fields of human ingenuity, from fashion to motoring, including, therefore, furniture and interior design.
In this article we will propose 10 solutions to bring the charm of vintage furniture in your home.
Index of topics in this article:
What it means to furnish a house with vintage furniture
Vintage Furniture: #1 - Armchair replica design Featherston Patchwork
Vintage Furniture: #2 - Tulip Chair by Eero Saarinen
Vintage furniture: #3 - Tolix Chair
Vintage furniture: #4 - 60s style black comfort chair
Vintage furniture: #5 and #6 - 60s stool
Vintage furniture: #7 - Retro style TV cabinet
Vintage Furniture: #8 - TV Standset in Arte Povera
Vintage Furniture: #9 - Bedroom trunks
Vintage furniture: #10 - Writing desk with splashback
Conclusions
To furnish a house with vintage furniture and furnishing accessories, it is necessary to pursue two objectives:
Try to create a unique environment;
Let your personality conquer a space inside the furniture.
To achieve these results, it is important to proceed with a very careful selection phase, because the line separating the vintage from the pack is very thin, and overcoming it is really easy.
Remember, vintage furniture really works when inside a room furnished in a precise style, such as art poor, for example, you can insert elements that recall a past time.
The secret of vintage furniture is precisely this, in the ability to identify the right furniture or furnishing accessory for the right context, in order to enhance the basic style of the environment and the vintage product.
This principle is easy to understand, but difficult to apply, because often the charm of these objects leads us to want to include them at all costs, but risking, however, the effect of the antique shop.
That said, let's see together the 10 vintage furnishing ideas we've selected for you.
Vintage Furniture: #1 - Armchair replica design Featherston Patchwork
Patchwork armchair
In the photo an armchair with a vintage design revisited in a modern key.
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We start our list with a piece of furniture that combines style and practicality, or an armchair with footrest - Chaise Longue.
Remaining on a vintage theme, our choice fell on this beautiful upholstered armchair with patchwork upholstery and footstool.
In addition to being an object of unquestionable 1950s style, perfect alongside a bookcase, it is a design inspired by the famous seat designed by Australian Grant Featherston and also known as Contour Chair Lounge - contour chair.
Vintage Furniture: #2 - Tulip Chair by Eero Saarinen
Table and chairs Tulip by Eero Saarinen
In the photo two tulip chairs and a table by Eero Saarinen .
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Remaining on the subject of design seating, we would like to bring this chair, with its obvious 60's style, to your attention.
As in the case of the Patchwork armchair, this chair is inspired by the original design of the Tulip chair by Eero Saarinen who designed it in the early 1940s, as part of the research promoted by the MoMA in New York entitled organic design in home furnishing collection.
The famous design seat was only put into production in 1956, 16 years later, thanks to Knoll, which acquired the patent.
The design is inspired by the tulip flower and evokes it in its shapes, this is the motif of its name. The base is characterized by a circular pedestal, made of die-cast aluminium and covered with Rilsan, an acrylic material. The seat is made of fiberglass.
The table-top version of the Tulip chair with armrests is also available on the market. To complete the collection, the Tulip stool and table are also available.
This is a product with an undeniable charm, much sought after especially among science fiction lovers, since the chair Tulip by Saarinen appeared in an episode of Star Trek in the '60s.
If you are a Trekker, you can not but a well-known tulip chair.
Vintage furniture: #3 - Tolix Chair
Tolix chairs in vintage furnitureWe have dedicated an entire article to the Tolix chair, to underline its diffusion and the importance it has in the interior design field.
It is an object that was the brainchild of Xavier Pauchard, a French metalworker who worked as a metalworker in the early 1930s.
Made of metal, the Tolix chair lends itself very well to be inserted both in modern environments, such as industrial design, and in more traditional environments, furnished with furniture in shabby chic style or Arte Povera.
In any case, it does not go unnoticed.
Vintage furniture: #4 - 60s style black comfort chair
Black upholstered chairs from the 60sThe comfort chair from the 60s shown in the picture shows a more refined and elegant design, perfect in a living room furnished in American style.
The coldness of metal meets with the upholstery in leather-look, which softens the chair, making it both a practical and functional furnishing element but also a design object with a vintage flavor, able to customize and enhance the environment.
Vintage furniture: #5 and #6 - 60s stool
Another sitting, or rather two, but we promise you that these are the last that we will indicate to you in this article.
If you love the 60s, and you are a fan of cinema and TV shows from that period - or tell the story of that period - then you should create a bar corner in your living room, where you can invite friends for a goitzer in company and a chat.
You can opt for two vintage solutions, in this case, a black stool with or without backrest, that immediately recall the atmosphere of Happy Days.
Vintage furniture: #7 - Retro style TV cabinet
Vintage TV stand with base
In the photo a modern TV cabinet with a vintage design.
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So far we have only reported chairs and armchairs, now we want you to settle down to relax in front of a nice movie.
But where do I put my TV in the living room? Simple, on this retro style TV stand from the 50s and 60s (see picture above), but with modern lines.
The elegance of wood blends with the elongated shape of the cabinet, with sliding doors that allow you to glimpse the collection of films of which you are so proud.
Vintage Furniture: #8 - TV Standset in Arte Povera
Vintage cabinet brings TVPrior to the advent of television, at home you listened to the radio, sitting in the living room in the company of the rest of the family.
This TV cabinet is inspired by those cabinets used to hold the valve radios, that's why its small size and the presence of doors and drawers, where you could store magazines and books.
If you want to recreate that atmosphere, you can use this product to host a TV or radio that you may have been lucky enough to inherit from a relative or that you bought at an antique market.
Vintage Furniture: #9 - Bedroom trunks
Vintage bedroom trunkAn item that characterized the decor of the past is represented by the trunk.
It is a very useful piece of furniture, inside which you usually store blankets and bed linen for the bedroom, but over time its use has significantly decreased.
Well, if you want to recreate a bedroom with a vintage feel, you can opt for a wooden trunk, to be placed at the foot of the bed.
Vintage furniture: #10 - Writing desk with splashback
Writing desk with splashbackThe last element that we want to point out is fully included in the furniture now in disuse, but in the past were present in almost all homes - at least those of aristocratic families and upper middle class.
We are referring to the desk, a piece of furniture that has been replaced over the years by modern desks, but which retains a unique vintage charm.
The presence of the 'splashback, or a compartment with drawers, which allowed you to store letters and documents inside the desk, while preserving privacy.
Conclusions
Vintage furniture offers many solutions, ranging from objects to furniture, passing through accessories and furnishings, able to satisfy all tastes and nourish nostalgia for the times that were.
The important thing is to carefully choose which products to put in your furniture, to make the styles live together in a harmonious way.