The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors

<br/><p>Despite the fact that bookshelves are, sadly, becoming something of a nostalgia piece in the increasingly digital globe in which we reside, amongst furniture enthusiasts, they’ll constantly be as considerably a car for artistic expression as a furnishing with a certain function.  We’ve featured some outlandish shelving ideas more than the years, so we’re even far more delighted when we run across a style that somehow blends subtlety with outrageousness in equal measure.  When images of funky 3D shelves like these created by Monika Juhasz run across our desks, we can’t support but note the restrained creativity of their colors and form — bright but tempered, uneven but symmetrical.  The “qubicle,” as it’s known as, is a notion piece featuring angular wall-mounted modular shelves that are interchangeable yet cohesive in their brash but still contained appearance.  Presented in a duo of contrasting color families, qubicles are produced, theoretically, in sets of 3 and can be combined to make a larger modular rectangle or square.  Hung from a simple bracket system, each and every cube (qube?) measures 10″ x 10″ x 6″ on its exterior, with an 8″ x 8″ x 6″ interior space to fill with books, tchotchkes and more.  Satisfying both the left and correct sides of our brains, we appreciate the marriage of two opposites: the wild and undefined with the regimented and reputable.</p><br/><img alt="qubicles modular shelves The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors amazing ideas " height="342" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/qubicles-modular-shelves.jpg" title="The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors amazing ideas " width="600" /><br/><br/><img alt="qubicles The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors amazing ideas " height="342" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/qubicles.jpg" title="The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors amazing ideas " width="600" /><br/><br/><img alt="qubicles The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors amazing ideas " height="342" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/qubicles_.jpg" title="The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors amazing ideas " width="600" /><br/><br/><img alt="qubicles The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors amazing ideas " height="342" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/qubicles__.jpg" title="The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors amazing ideas " width="600" /><br/><p>Photo credits: Quirky.com</p><br/><p>The post The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves in Bold, Bright Colors </p><br/><p>

The Qubicle: Funky 3D Shelves In Bold, Bright Colors

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Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp

<br/><p>1 of the easiest ways to introduce drama into a room is to do it with light. Whether it’s the tone, hue or brilliance of the light itself, or possibly the patterns produced by the illumination streaming from a meticulously crafted shade, or just the huge, bold shape of the lamp itself, a wonderful light can genuinely transform the space in which it lives.  The third characteristic we talked about above — the lamp’s physical size and shape — gets all the credit in the case of brothers Achille Castiglioni and Pier Giacomo’s Arco floor lamp, very first designed in 1962.  Taking a stark turn from the straight lines and sizable (or not) minimalism of the midcentury modern era, the grand curve of the Arco corner floor lamp is a broad and memorable departure from the rest of its contemporaries, but it still stands tall, each actually and figuratively, half a century later, along with its sideboards and smoking couches created well-known once more by the Mad Guys craze of recent years.  The marble, steel and aluminum lamp itself weighs 78 pounds — no little feat for a mover attempting to transport it in 1 piece, but the hole in the middle of the base eliminates the hassle an additional clever function the brothers integrated was an 8-foot swoop allowing for a table or workspace to stand underneath the light, which requires nary a nail hole to set up.  While necessity is the father of invention, a bit of wit and style is undoubtedly a close cousin in this case.  According to Design Within Attain, which carries the Arco, an original of the iconic light is on permanent show at the Museum of Modern day Art (MoMA).</p><br/><img alt="arco floor lamp Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp amazing ideas " height="486" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/arco-floor-lamp.png" title="Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp amazing ideas " width="500" /><br/><img alt="picture Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp amazing ideas " height="393" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/picture.png" title="Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp amazing ideas " width="500" /><br/><br/><img alt="picture Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp amazing ideas " height="653" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/picture_.png" title="Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp amazing ideas " width="500" /><br/><p>Photo credit: DWR.</p><br/><p>The post Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp </p><br/><p>

Shine So Bright: The Classic Arco Corner Floor Lamp

1 of the easiest ways to introduce drama into a room is to do it with light. Whether it’s the tone, hue or brilliance of the light itself, o...

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