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This year is definitely the year of minimalistic sofas but much warmer that create more intimate atmosphere.

Great examples of contemporary furniture from California. What I really like is this great combination of this straight lines soft natural finishes. All together gives a bit of industrial and at the same time elegant look.


From their website:
Founded in 2010, Croft House aims to encompass the sophisticated, relaxed feel of the California lifestyle  through their handmade pieces of statement furniture. Croft prides itself on creating timeless pieces, individually crafted to fit a client’s specific needs. Their extensive  design experience effortlessly transforms ideas and vision into functional, quality furniture.

Manufactured locally in Southern California, each piece is handmade with great attention to detail and a distinct focus on the individual processes involved. Longevity and craftsmanship are prioritized through the selection of only the highest quality materials available.

Croft House considers negative space to be just another material at their disposal, this perspective allows their design team to present scale in unique and exciting ways. Commingling these defining characteristics of modern design with the utmost commitment to the use of natural materials, Croft House creates a new generation of timeless furniture.

Bert Frank is a British brand founded in 2013. They were mostly working for the luxury lighting industry but recently they expaned their desing into furniture. We really like thow they incorporate brass (so fashionable nowdays!) into their products.

From thei website:

Luxury British lighting brand Bert Frank has expanded their design boundaries with a foray into furniture. Created in collaboration with Decca, utalising their furniture manufacturing expertise, the collection is comprised of five key pieces. With the same mid-century inspired feel as Bert Frank’s acclaimed lighting ranges, expect to find sculptural silhouettes, lustrous brass highlights and the same exacting attention to detail the company has made their signature.

Natascha Harra-Frischkorn is a young product designer from Germany, who just recently opened her own company called Hafriko.
But what made her truly popular is her design of a flexible shelf. She said she developed this idea during her Masters Degree in Germany. Since then she received such a great response from different blogs and magazines from around the world that she decided to keep developing the product. She is happy to announce that flexible shelf is now finished, ready and available for customers.

From her website:

Since I first published my project Chuck on Behance a lot of things have happened. I got such a great response from all over the world about this design. Thanks to the great Behance community for that! Couldn´t have done it without you. Cause of the great feedback and interest I decided to work hard and get the prototype Chuck ready for the market. Several month of hard work, excessive prototype testing, endless manufacture selection I finally have come to the point where I can ensure that chuck is meeting my high product expectations.I am proud to say that chuck is gonna be 100% made in Germany with the best local suppliers available.I gonna personally check and preassemble every shelf before it goes out to the customers to ensure everything is perfect! There are two different versions of Chuck available, one with the natural wood and a version with oiled wood (to give the wood more protection and a different colour). I just opened a webshop, so feel free to stop by.

Imperfetto Lab produces amazing and truly creative design pieces. If you are an art lover you will appreciate their work.

From Their Website:
The collection of design objects and furniture, inspired by the imperfections of the raw materials, wants to express a synthesis between natural and artificial elements becoming familiar, domestic.

Each piece is made from a common mould, which is then sanded, painted and hand-polished. The working process differs for each type of object, thus becoming unique in its genre. Thanks to such a personalized approach to items, they acquire identity and uniqueness, as well as showing exceptional attention to details that derives from an expert and skillful craftsmanship. 
The names given to each item recall the world of nature, such as Bulbi (bulbs), Gusci (shells), Ciottoli (pebbles); shapes and dimension reveal the talents employed at il laboratorio dell’imperfetto, where resin gives a shape to every idea and is “a modern gift from King Midas by Verter Turroni, who after many years of experimenting, has learnt to make the most of this material in all its possible metamorphosis”.

Kubikoff is a young furniture company, but with a fast growing popularity in the field. The company follows traditions of the original philosophy of Aleksander Kubikov, designer and architect, to whom the company owes its name.

From Their Website:

The story of the company's creation deserves to be told.

The founders are two brothers: Matteo and Gino Lemson, Dutch by birth, ever fascinated by the history of furniture, and always searching for samples of antiques, vintage items, designs and manuscripts.They then discovered that the manuscript contained designs and notes, in German, taken by one of the students of the Russian furniture designer, Aleksander Kubikov, who lived in Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century.
Any form of innovation was, in fact, persecuted in the young Bolshevik state. Those notes represented the only proof that the Kubikov had succeed in founding his own workshop, and train a few students.We choose to believe that one of them was able to leave the country, before meeting the same end as his teacher.
So, it seems that, thanks to this student, the manuscript, containing the teachings Kubikovs imparted upon his students, integrated with calculations, designs and graphical images, travelled out of Russia.
When, in 2004, Gino and Matthieu moved to Italy to found “Kubikoff Srl”, in the confusion of the move, some boxes, containing devices and documents, were lost. Among these documents was the folder with the precious manuscript, which the Lemson brothers hope can be returned to them someday.