I was reminded of a friend of mine who’s mother wanted to take him shopping for his birthday at a speciality designer shop. Although contemporary fashions, these weren’t his usual off-the-rack sort and many were originals. As a fairly peer oriented teen, he was reluctant to veer too far from the run-of-the-mill selections in the usual, popular teen fashion haunts of the day. His decision not to go to the designer boutique gave my mother yet another ‘I told you so’ moment when later that summer, I went to a important party dressed in exactly the same outfit as one of my friends, and had the nerve to complain about how embarrassed I was.

Contemporary furniture shopping is much the same as clothing fashion shopping because your choices in design and comfort should be unique to you, and a reflection of your own personality, whatever that may be. That’s just one good reason to consider high quality, handmade, furniture when shopping for a contemporary look for your home, and there are at least a half dozen others.

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This is what we came across recently. Creative, practical.. But is it comfortable? Let us know!

As tastes move more toward locally produced and sold goods, there is more reason than ever to look at handmade furniture as an investment in your home and its interior design. In contrast to mass-produced goods available from Ikea, John Lewis, and other furniture retailers, using handmade furniture to decorate a home gives a one of a kind appearance to a space that should be as unique as its owners.

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Contemporary chairs can be strange looking things: odd angles, bizarre configurations of their backings, with widths and strange seat pieces which make them appear more like medieval torture devices than objects to sit and relax upon. But is the appearance of contemporary chairs, and by extension other pieces of contemporary furniture, true to the sensation of sitting on or using them? Or is it a trick of the eye?

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