My Italian Living

Immediately upon walking through the door, the very first place your eyes land is the entryway. The irony is, it is also the easiest place for a huge mound of disorderly mess to accumulate in no time at all. Everyone hates tripping over boots and sneakers lying around after a long day at work. The quickest way to reclaim your hallway is by adding a few heavy-duty shoe storage cabinets . You should really have to inventory how many pairs you do indeed own before adventuring into furniture purchasing. Just think about it: A pack of kids requires a drastically different arrangement from live-in singletons. Winter boots, summer sandals, running sneakers — tally them all up so that you know how much room you'll really need. Buying a unit that is smaller than you want only means the little bit overflows back on to the floor. Air circulation is an oddly important feature but so many overlooks while searching for in end-capping systems. Take some damp, sweaty sneakers and seal them in a b...

  For many years, Italian design has been synonymous with a unique kind of confidence in which form, material and workmanship are given equal importance. Riflessi mirrors exist firmly inside that lineage, but refined from metalworking practices to create a utilitarian object as something more akin to a wall sculpture. The specific style of mirror is not just the glass, but also what surrounds it in the frame. Metal is shaped, faceted, and finished by hand lending a non-mass produced overall feeling even between pieces within the same design line. That Metalwork Philosophy in Design Most of the enticement comes to how the frame is built up, rather than written upon. Through the use of remodelling techniques such as folding and hand polishing a flat metal sheet becomes faceted, and three-dimensional surfaces reflect and disperse light in varying degrees depending on where you are looking at it from. This explains why some designs seem almost more like jewellery than furniture. For ...