Monday, December 22, 2014

Branches and trunks in modern furniture design and interior design

Hello everybody, it's my Christmas post which is devoted to the theme of trees branches and trunks in modern furniture design and interior design as well.

The essence of plants, their amazing beauty and unlimited individuality has always been perennial spring for inspiration for designers and artists. Representation of plant world is a major part of human culture. Plant theme is embedded in all human ways of life, especially religion and arts. We meet plants everywhere: ornamental reliefs of ancient cultural artefacts including architectural cult buildings, monumental arts (mosaics, frescoes, stained-glass windows ect.), medieval manuscript painting (the so-called illuminated pages of manuscripts), jeweller's art and folk arts, tapestries, rugs and carpets, fabrics with printer's flower, sculptures, furniture, cold arms, heraldic symbols, blazonry, emblems, logotypes, cards, production of industrial design and so on. The culmination of aesthetic dominant of plant forms in fine arts was modern age (well-known as Art Nouveau, Jugendstil and so forth) at the end of 19th and start of 20th century. First of all masterpieces of William Morris, Alphonse Mucha, Antoni Gaudí, Fernand Khnopff, Henry Clemens van de Velde, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustav Klimt, Leon (Lev) Bakst, Ivan Bilibin, Valentin Serov ect. are called to mind.

The peculiar genre in the area of naturalistic design ideas is a representation and interpretation of the anatomy of trees, their branches and crowns. This visual poetry tries to make a reality the wealth and subtlety and refinement of nature. The form of tree is immemorial, multidimensional, have a deep symbolic meaning. Trees are associated with the structure of the world, it's axis (imago et axis mundi), Divinity, Tree of the Universe, fertility, evolution and progress, longevity, wisdom, health, medicative power, immortality, source of life, motherhood, unity, grandeur, transmigration of souls and so on.

A wonderful union of tree's beauty with mathematics and scientific and technological advance is a striking similarity of branches with fractals. Fractals are mathematical set that exhibits a repeating self-similar patterns that display at every scale. The example of that natural phenomenon are trees, flowers and leafs, corals, sea stars and shell, fruits and so forth.

The heritage of modern age art in combination with philosophical ideas and aesthetic tradition of modernism became productive environment for industrial design of the 20th century. Inexhaustible muse of nature plants inspires both famous designers and young authors as well. The arabesque laces of tree brunches and trunks have a vivid expression in classic timeless furniture as well as in ultra-modern furniture and interior design. The vivid polar examples can be presented by Roche Bobois and Vaughan Lighting, Ginger&Jagger and Joris Laarman, Ashley Childers (Emporium Home) and Knoll International, Baker Furniture and Boconcept, Lindsey Adelman and Neiman Marcus and so on.

In this article I collected my favorite patterns of furniture, lighting, graceful accessories ect. related to the plant trunks and branches theme, examples of midwinter trees, natural mosaics of leaves in interior design. Pendants and sconces with tree branches, console tables with thicket base, sculptural branches of mirror frames, wallpapers  patterned with branches bring an original organic vibe to the interior design. Among  them Olystudio, Roche Bobois, Corbett Lighting, Vaughan Lighting, Pieter Adam , Ginger&Jagger, William Yeoward, Serip, Joris Laarman, Blue Nature , Emporium Home, Knoll, Restoration Hardware, Baker, Boconcept, Lindsey Adelman, Thonet, Neiman Marcus, Ligne Roset and more over. I hope you'll get a real aesthetic pleasure and use this beautiful samples in your future creative projects ))



Currey&Company Elwynn Bench



Regina Andrew Gilded Driftwood Desk Lamp


Neiman Marcus Eight-Light Iron-Twig Chandelier



Corbin Bronze Tree Branch Table



Magma Chandelier by Cox London



Branches Mirror By Hervé van der Straeten



Branch Agate Chandelier from designer Ashley Childers for Emporium Home



Ginger & Jagger Magnolia Sideboard



Herve Van Der Straeten Lustre Branche


Koket Enchanted Side Table


Jonathan Adler Wyldwood Stool



Global Views Twig Mirror Brass



Visual Comfort Aspen Floor Lamp



Joris Laarman Branch Bookshelf



Currey&Company Midwinter Table Lamp



Kathy Kuo Home Bijou Tree Branch Hollywood Regency Brass Bronze Ceiling Pendant Lamp


Rye Beach Hollywood Regency Black Silver Branch Entertainment Media Cabinet


Baker Living Room Dorada Side Table



Koket Enchanted Contemporary Sofa



Side Table by Hervé van der Straeten


Pieter Adam Twiggy Wall Sconce



Borghese by Noe Duchaufour Lawrance



Kathy Kuo Home Rustic Carved Sculpted Iron Tree 6 Arm Candleholder



William Yeoward Valadon Sideboard table




Currey&Company Rainforest Chandelier



Paula Swinnen Branch Design Console Table


Oly Studio Twig Mirror



Light Making by Lindsey Adelman Studio



Serip Organic Lighting Bijout Collection


Robert Kuo Gold Twig Floor Lamp



Global Views Twig Candle Holder Brass Large



Buy the Ginger & Jagger Fig Tree Console Table


David Wiseman Collage Side Table



Global Views Lamps and Lighting Twig Electrified Wall Sconce-Brass


Baker Arbor Floor Light



Villiers Brothers Wayside Coffee Table



Adonis Pauli Tree of Life



Vaughan Neptune Lantern


Pieter Adam Twiggy Hanging Lamp


Vaughan Designs Twig Wall Lights


Vincent half-round table from Oly Studio


Vincent side table in antiqued grey faux bois resin from Oly Studio


Contemporary Crestview Collection Twisted Branch Gray Table Lamp



The Gnarled Vine Console by Cox London for Rose Tarlow Melrose



Ginger & Jagger Primitive Console



Koket Enchanted Round Dining Table



Paula Swinnen Branch Design Coffee Table



Baker Kim Table Lamp


Crate & Barrel Ankara Chair



Currey&Company Arbor Bench



Ginger & Jagger Magnolia Sideboard



Global Views Berries Mirror Brass



Hudson Furniture Bangle Dining Table





Roche Bobois Saga



Wewood Tree Armchair



Back to Branch Bookshelf by Olivier Dollé



Roche Bobois Mangrove Contemporary Sideboard by M. Fumagalli



Bleu Nature Lighting



Gabby Furniture Merrill Side Table



Global Views Lamps and Lighting Fat Nickel Twig Table Lamp



Arteriors Nantucket Side Table



Reflex Angelo Onis Buffet Sideboard




Aspire Home Accents Aluminum Tree Branch Wall Mirror



Joris Laarman Bone Chairs



Joris Laarman Branch Bridge Table



John Briscella The Throne of Paris


Patrick Jouin Solid Chair



Fernando & Humberto Campana Original Design Metal Armchair


Lindsey Adelman Branching Bubbles



Heracleum from Bertjan Pot for Moooi



Angkor Table Collection by Olivier Dollé



Made Goods Gerald Bookshelf



Edra Corallo Bed



La Chance Borghese Collection Coffee table design by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance



Nosigner Arborism



Metal Branch Table Lamp from Crestview Collection


Jewellery tree from BoConcept



Extension Chair with coathanger by Sjoerd Vroonland for Moooi



Ligne Roset Under My Tree lamp by Florian Brillet



Coral Pendant Light by Pallucco



Platform Wertel Oberfell and Matthias Bar Fractal Table



Knoll Petal Table (detail) by Richard Schultz



Bonaldo Kadou Coffee Tables



Angkor Coffee Table by Olivier Dolle


Robert Kuo Cream Lacquer Tree Trunk Half Moon Table


Thicket Antique Silver Round Marble Side Table



Cappellini Branch Round Table



Bonaldo Viento Chairs



Bonaldo Kadou Ryosuke Fukusada



Dror Benshetrit Vase of Phases



Bleu Nature Volskar Floor Lamp



Restoration Hardware Winter Wonderland Tree


Serip Organic Lighting Aqua Collection


Amass by Benjamin Hubert






Casadeco Collection Riverside Wallpaper



Schöner Wohnen Wallpaper with natural pattern blue sweat branches twigs


Cole & Son Woods and Pears



Rasch Tapete Easy Passion


Werner Aisslinger “Home of the Future”