Modern Accent Chairs in the Living Room: How to Choose

Modern Manhattan
4 min readJun 7, 2017

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Nowadays, the chair has become an excellent accessory for the living room. Such furniture is ideal for holding small parties or gatherings, it is easy to accommodate guests on chairs. Guests will feel comfortable, relaxed sitting on an armchair.

In regard for convenience, the accent chairs can also has a valuable feature as sofas. It is comfortable to sit on separate chairs in a circle of friends. This article is dedicated for small but stylish and convenient armchairs and accent chairs. We will talk about all the features of modern and stylish armchairs that are used in fashionable interiors. This information will be useful to you if you want to transform your living space.

Modern armchair means an armchair that fits a certain artistic composition. The uniqueness of modern armchairs is in absolute dissimilarity.

Modern furniture industry can offer huge types of armchairs: large, small, medium and so on. The size of them can be chosen taking into account the buyers tastes that can fit with tone and design of an interior. However, it is much more profitable to purchase small chairs if you are waiting for guests and planning a party. On the other hand, large and medium armchairs provide a great comfort and relaxation.

The variety of colors and shapes of modern armchairs simply amazes consciousness and imagination. We are all accustomed to the traditional look of the chair, but now artistic chairs are more and more popular that delight the eye with their marvelous forms. To such furniture can be referred chairs in the style of high-tech and art deco.

The color of the chair, first of all, should fit in the color composition of the interior of the room. Everything should complement each other, without falling out of the general concept.

Classification of Armchairs/Accent Chairs:

· Traditional chairs. This is a very large group of armchairs, they can be found in any furniture store. They differ from modern armchairs with fabric prints, carvings and colors (usually brown, chocolate, ivory, cream, white colors).

· Chairs-transformers. This is one of the most comfortable and practical armchairs. Their peculiarity is that they turn into a place for sleeping with a slight movement of hands. The other name of these type of chairs is ‘Recliners’.

· Rocking chairs. Traditional armchairs, familiar to everyone from childhood.

· Artistic chairs are unusual in appearance, executed by designers. Most often they are made for an order.

· Chairs-bags or Poufs. Inexpensive, comfortable. Feature: they do not have a skeleton.

Frameworks for chairs are very diverse. They are made of materials such as wood, plastic, metal, plywood, fiberglass and rattan. Often for the production expensive varieties of wood are used.

Upholstery materials should be high quality as much as possible. Nowadays, manufacturers use flock, jacquard, and tapestry. Different prints can be applied to these fabrics and they are resistant to damage and moisture. As fillers can be used springs, latex and so on.

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