The truth of life

Designers have introduced a new style. Everyone calls it differently, we called realism. The most striking incarnations of it look in our report on the modern section of the Milan Furniture Salon.

Passing the gallery

A photo: Ivan Sorokin

Text: Marina Volkova

Magazine: (184) 2013

Designers have introduced a new style. Everyone calls it differently, we called realism. The most striking incarnations of it look in our report on the modern section of the Milan Furniture Salon.

The beginning of this story was laid several years ago, when everyone at once became interested in eco furniture. Design began to build on the principles of natural philosophy: simple forms close to natural, gray-brown gamma (or, as we called it, the colors of the earth), cotton and linen fabrics and light wood became fashionable. But these were only external manifestations of the general trend. Going deeper, we found that the essence of the new concept is as follows: the visual effects generated by the speculative, abstract design are no longer in honor, the content is primary, which means the basic values ​​are quality and comfort. What is always required of furniture, will be required and required.

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