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Great coffee table books on interior design and furniture
As it’s Friday, we thought we deserved a little fun here at Danetti. We’ve been flicking through some stunning coffee table books and fantasising about our dream home – a contemporary haven filled with clean lines, cool European design and enormous sofas we think … Anyway, if you fancy doing the same, here are a few of the best coffee table books around at the moment. They look beautiful in themselves and will give you inspiration and knowledge galore.
House Beautiful Home Book
1. House Beautiful, Home Book, £22.60
WATERSTONES SAYS: With more than 500 stunning colour photographs and 464 pages of practical advice, The Home Book is the decorating guide you will turn to time and again, whether you’re planning a major renovation or making small changes.
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100 Houses coffee table book
2. 100 Houses, Modern Designs for Contemporary Living, £20.99
WATERSTONES SAYS: 100 Houses is a superb sourcebook of contemporary private houses of all styles in all parts of the world. From North America to Japan, and from London to Sydney, the diverse range of locations, architectural styles, scales and budgets brought together here represents the very best in domestic architecture of the past few years.
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Gentle Art of Domesticity coffee table book
3.The Gentle Art of Domesticity, £25
WATERSTONES SAYS: Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, from art, literature and nature and, through the gentle arts of knitting, baking and sewing, enhances her family life. From angora cushions to gingerbread houses, from crochet blankets to geometric quilts, she injects her home with colour, beauty and fun. The result is a gorgeous, unusual and inspirational commonplace book, full of wit, whimsy and stunning photographs.
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Table style coffee table book
4. Table Style: Elegant and Affordable ideas for decorating the table, £16.99
WATERSTONES SAYS: A beautifully decorated table can be the making of a meal, whether it’s a family supper or a dinner party. However, modern entertaining doesn’t require you to polish the silver spoons, starch the napkins or roll out the red carpet. In Table Style, Liz Belton and Rebecca Tanqueray will inspire you to make the most of what you’ve got, combining chain-store staples and vintage finds with decorative flourishes to create a stylish and welcoming table.
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And you’ll be needing somewhere to put your new books, so take a look at Danetti’s gorgeous range of coffee tables VIEW THE RANGE
Camber coffee table
Square glass coffee table
Milan coffee table
Bar stools are perfect for our busy homes
Salve bar stool by Danetti
Here at Danetti, we like to get to know our customers. We chat to them about their interior design schemes and try to get a feel for how their use their living space.What they tell us time after time is that space is really precious in their homes. For many of them, one main room has to work as kitchen, sitting room, dining room and play room. They often don’t want enormous furniture taking up their valuable floor space. And our customers also want the flexibility of having items of furniture that can be brought out when they have friends and family over, but then neatly stacked away when they’ve gone.
Something we specialise in at Danetti, and which we often recommend to our customers, is bar stools. Forget any notion you have of bar stools being uncomfortable and unstable. The ones we stock often come with four solid legs, arm rests and foot rests, and some of them have backs to make them just as comfy as dining chairs. And you’ll be able to find one that looks great, because many of our bar stools are available in several colours – sometimes you can even customise the legs and arms so you get just what you want.
Bar stools work as occasional seating for guests, for tucking under a breakfast bar in you kitchen-diner, for positioning around a small high-rise dining table, and even just for adding a few seats to your current kitchen area. That’s the flexibility our customers wanted. We aim to please!
Take a look at the newest additions to our bar-stool range and see if there’s one you would like in your home … Danetti bar stools
Got a property to sell? Danetti can help you dress your home for success
Property experts are claiming that despite the trouble in the UK housing market, there’s still a strong demand for prime properties
It seems that the UK property market has split into two, with the mass market still struggling, but the upper end of the market doing well.
“The £600,000 upwards range and the houses at £1 million and over are very much in demand, there’s not enough to go around,” says Nigel Ellis, who’s director at London Estate Agency chain Pricket and Ellis. He says that the high demand for these types of homes is leading to supply shortages, which in turn is causing prices in this sector to rise.
His opinion is backed up by the recently released Primelocation.com property index, which shows that annual growth in what they class as the ‘prime platinum housing sector’ grew by six per cent in February. This is in contrast with the UK housing market as a whole, where the average property fell in value by a year-on-year figure of 0.3 per cent.
If you’re lucky enough to own a home at the top end of the market then you can make sure that it achieves its full market value by dressing it to impress discerning buyers. Even a house that would normally fall outside the ‘premiere league’ can be elevated to something very special if filled with the right quality furniture.
If you’re about to sell, it’s worth investing a few hundred, or even a few thousand pounds on quality European contemporary furniture, as it could result in you selling your home for much more, and ensure you get a quick sale too. The Americans have a term for this: home staging.
For example, defining a dining area with a beautiful dining table and chairs will let the buyer see the potential for throwing dinner parties, or installing a breakfast bar and bar stools will make it clear to a buyer that the kitchen area is the hub of the home.
And the great bit is that when you move, you can take your new furniture with you!
PICTURED BELOW: ROMA BAR STOOLS by Danetti
Danetti’s Stylish Coco A Frame Bar Stool’s in Clarins!
Modern and Stylish Coco A Frame Bar Stool, made in Italy
We at Danetti are proud to be supplying Clarins with bar stool seating for their Roadshow.
They chose our Coco A Frame Bar Stool as it is a perfect, modern and stylish piece of seating that compliments their brand. The strong steel frame is finished in a highly polished chrome, and Clarins opted for a classic black seat to compliment their set up, although we have a variety of different colours available for this stool.
Whilst the stool looks great, the seat of the Coco A Frame Bar Stool provides a comfortable curved wrap-around surface that supports the lower back. Making it a perfect solution for Clarins clientèle on the Roadshow.
You will also find the following products in this popular range : Coco Bar Stool, Coco A Frame Chair, Coco Flat Chair and Coco Classic Chair.
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New Section Added! Introducing Feng Shui
We are happy to announce a new section about Feng Shui.
Entitled ‘An Introduction to Feng Shui’, it describes the basic fundamentals of this tradition, such as the Chi energy, Ying and Yang and the 5 elements.
Feng Shui known as ‘wind and water’ has been a traditional part of Chinese culture for thousands of years. The ancient art stems from the belief of positive and negative energy reflected in the Yin and Yang flow of Chi. To create a harmonious and balanced atmosphere placement of furniture is key, it can even help the flow and movements of natural rhythms.
Click here to read more about Feng Shui and it’s principals
Again this is another section we will be adding to, it covers a lot of ideas. Although most people won’t be able to change their entire environment to suit the rules there are always elements that can be used and adapted for your space.
New Section Added! Understanding Colour and it’s Uses
We are happy to announce we have just added our new guides all about Colour. Under the heading of Colour: An Introduction we have included a number of pages that explain the basics, colour theory and more, to help you with any problems you may encounter when designing and updating your home.
An understanding of colour is very important when it comes to anything creative, interior design is no exception. Understanding the theory behind which colours will work and which won’t, can often make or break a room. Colour should always be a thoughtful addition to any the room, because not only is it aesthetically pleasing but it is powerful enough to influence the emotions of those surrounded by it.
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We plan to add new interesting content regularly so we can provide you with the information you need, to succeed. If there is anything you would like help with, please email us at lifestyle@danetti.com
Danetti’s Cubilux Chair Featured in Real Homes Magazine (March Edition)
If your heading to your local newsagent this week for your copy of Real Homes Magazine (March 2008 Edition), don’t forget to have look in the Style for Less section (pg 18-19), to see our Cubilux Chair in Red Leather featured.
Part of the Beautiful Basics range of furniture, it really is a stand alone designer piece for the home. Incredibly comfortable with a thick cushioned seat, back and arms, the Cubilux is not only a great seat to relax into, but it also promotes better posture with a straight low back. The quality real leather and highly polished chrome finishes mean the Cubilux really does have the whole package.
The Cubilux Chair is available in black and red leather. Click here for more information about the Cubilux Leather Chair.
Welcome to Danetti Lifestyle
Welcome to Lifestyle, sponsored by Danetti.com. Have you ever wondered what the latest trends will be for decorating your home? What the manufacturers recommend for cleaning and protecting your leather stools? Well, wonder no more. Lifestyle will provide these answers and many more. Each post will be filled with information for creating and maintaining your perfect décor.
For example, did you you know that black painted walls are starting to make a come back? As well as blue and green highlights using coloured decorative products throughout the room. Two of these items are the blue Suck UK Glow Brick and the green Suck UK Glow Brick.
We’ll have helpful posts about the care and maintenance of your leather furniture as well as a guide to the different types of leather available, from mid-grain to bi-cast and every type in between.
Lifestyle will also photos of products that will coming into stock in the future. If you see a design you like, feel free to contact Danetti for more information. We may also post photos of products we like and would like your opinion of them. Would you buy them?
We look forward to any comments you may have about Lifestyle.