What Are the Current Trends in Modern Furniture Design?

Eileen Gray’s Adjustable Table, Breuer Nesting’s table, Hoffman Kubus arm chair, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair – each one of these classic pieces of furniture have represented modernity. All of these designs are as vibrant and relevant today as they were decades ago - clean lines, functionality, simplicity and great design.

The current trends in modern furniture design are developing yet greater relations with the fashion world. Your personal space and the physical space around you are more in tune with your public persona. We’re more aware that anything in our home makes a statement about us. Design is more about re-enforcing individuality – no strict rules but one – Reflect your individuality.

Some of the recurrent hot favorite themes of modern furniture design are:

• Minimalism, harsh lines and a clinical ambience is replaced with a touch of old world warmth

• Colors are bold - pumpkin orange, bright red, yellow, gold, deep cinnamon, luxurious violets, turquoise and ofcourse pink - bright and daring

• Metal remains an extensively used feature of design

• Decoupage - very chic

Modern furniture design concepts give us the best of both worlds…old and new. Eclecticism is in. This is the time when that colonial/antique piece of furniture can be placed alongside your contemporary straight-line sofas, and not look out of place. Mix and match is the trend as aesthetic independence becomes more pronounced. Ornate fixtures and accessories alongside straight-line minimalist metal furniture would not be incongruous.