Hey all. I've been told I need to swear less, but I just know there is nothing better than some great fucking furniture. I'm talking like beautiful, well designed furniture that is also high quality. What are some brands/designers that you guys like? I want to drop a good amount on a few pieces, prioritizing items like living room chairs, couches, floor and desk lamps, and small dining tables. I am particularly fond of mid-century and post-modern pieces.
I have my coffee table figured out--my beloved grandma left me a mid-century Pearsall glass kidney shaped table that is absolutely beautiful, but would love to hear thoughts on these too. That table has emotional value, and I may not want to put it in an apartment where people are gonna be boozing and risk it getting damaged.
Lets hear it boys. Help ol' Nightman furnish his new apartment.
CB2 has some cool pieces. They did a collaboration with GQ and made some really nice, modern stuff. Fairly pricey on all fronts but regardless of whether or not you actually end up buying anything, the site serves well in giving you an idea of what you may or may not want the space to look like (at least for me it did).
As far as couches, I'm an absolute whore for Chesterfields. Can sometimes be a bit in-your-face and douche-like, BUT, if you can find a subtle one that goes well with whatever else you've got in the space that's a dub.
https://www.stickley.com/
Expensive but know some buddies who are beginning to settle down and swallowed the price...really good looking stuff.
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
- Tyler Durden
Depends how much you want to spend. I’m not a fan of these “fashion designer” furniture brands that look out of an art gallery. So my recommendations by rough category:
Solid:
room and board
design within reach
burrow
From the source (quality wood products)
High end for specific needs:
herman Miller (chairs obviously)
Thos Moser (High quality wood products)
hastens (if you want a crazy expensive mattress)
Yeah, the "art studio" furniture is only good for pictures. The ergonomics on much designer furniture is atrocious. Only good for staging homes.
Restoration Hardware
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Yeah but they are sourced from one of my client and Vietnam and let me tell you. The price you pay for that desk is the price it took to make 8 of them haha. The wood pattern is artificially done.
I didn't know they also had restaurants in some of their locations.
Thanks everyone who answered so far! I've checked out a lot of the sites mentioned here and have found some stuff I really like.
I'm Ron Fucking Swanson and build it myself. PM me and I'll share some of the stuff I've built.
I really like Anthropology. Their furniture has a very interesting style. They have a large variety of really nice furniture that pairs well with many types of interiors, from traditional to modern. I also enjoy looking at Ballard Designs furniture. It has a good mix of updated pieces grounded in the traditional, which is right up my design aesthetic alley lol. However, I cannot afford furniture like this just yet. I just recently moved out of my parents’ house and don’t yet have a job that would allow me to buy something like this. Which is why I shop here living-room. Nice looking furniture that is affordable. Good for the time being.
It's pretty luxe, but I love Arteriors Home. I love Arteriors because it’s the perfect blend of classic and trendy. I love its side tables, light fixtures, and accent pieces
Check out Isabella Costantini and Casamilano
Fendi Home!
I like West Elm for Sofas and chairs. It is not even that expensive. I tried to go with one of those build it your self companies but my results were terrible
Depending on where you live there might be someone good nearby. You can get truly custom work done at very reasonable prices compared to buying from a big box store like West Elm.
By reasonable, I don't mean cheap, but I do mean quality + customized (within reason).
The immutable law of furniture is that great interior design is incredibly easy if all you care about is taking great photos and showing your space off to people, but only true masters of interior design can pull off both form and function.
My position is that you need to forget about the brand and for the most part buy stuff you see and experience in person, especially a sofa. The seat length and back height of a sofa will make or break its comfort level for you, so it's critical that you test out your sofas and chairs in-person unless you absolutely, positively can't.
(I am also a fan of mid-century modern. My opinion is the only correct opinion: MCM is the overall best genre of furniture. If you want a timeless MCM brand with guaranteed comfortable seats, I'd think about Ekornes Stressless.)
A bit late to this post but I had these guys make most of my furniture. I have a couple pieces that are just their original designs but the rest that I have are either my design or some pieces made where I made tweaks to some of their original designs. They made a coffee table for me and now offer it as one of their original designs and the picture they use on their website is actually my coffee table which is pretty cool. Chicago area with a limited shipping radius though but I'm sure there are plenty of good custom furniture makers around any major city.
https://www.wwmake.com/
Like almost everything else, the Amish do it better than normie society. Amish furniture is some of the best around.
That said, at my apartment I splurged on some fancy German new age stuff.
1stDibs or Chairish. You need to know what you're looking for, but you can buy the originals that Design Within Reach or Restoration Hardware copy for half the price - imo they are build better and last longer too.
Have you considered having your most important wood pieces made to order? Maybe there is a style of something you like but you don't like the grain of the wood. You can have it recreated to your taste.
I say wood because it would be the easiest to be able to do such a thing with.
I'd recommend where I got mine but we got it shipped since we just moved to Bristol. There's this store in LA that sells amazing mid-century furnitures (linked it in case) - we basically bought like 10 pieces from them and had it shipped all together. It was a straightforward process but it can be quite expensive.
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