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Many products of the furniture industry are quite similar and for the most part do not arouse much interest, pleasing buyers only with the affordable cost of the products. But there is a manufacturer whose production concept is fundamentally different from other companies. This is the "Actual Design" factory - one of the leaders in the production of elite bent furniture!

What is it about the collections of the Actual Design factory that attracts potential customers? Why are furniture owners extremely satisfied with their purchase? It's simple! High quality furniture, the professionalism of manufacturers, the use of first-class, expensive materials and reliable fittings - thanks to these and other factors, furniture is not delayed in the company "Actual Design"! Exquisite tables and chairs, comfortable chairs, sofas and beds and other products instantly “find” their owners and become perfect decoration any private residence, hotel complex, a cozy bar or an expensive restaurant!

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You don't just want to buy dining table, but also a stylish attribute for the room? Then you should definitely take a look at the official website of the Current Design company, where you can get acquainted with the most popular collections of modern, stylish furniture manufactured using the latest technologies.

The table is a priori the undisputed sales leader of the Actual Design company. This item is not just functional, but also extremely beautiful! Stylish round or oval surface made of high-quality, highly reliable glass, carved legs made of valuable wood and hand-finished parts - this is what distinguishes the table a priori from ordinary elements of a kitchen set.

By ordering a table a priori from the Current Design company in St. Petersburg, you are purchasing a piece of furniture worthy of kings! Just imagine how luxurious it will look in your kitchen, living room or dining room! The spacious table can accommodate not only all family members, but also many guests.

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For most owners, the bedroom is not just a room for sleeping and relaxing. This is a kind of place of solitude, a cozy corner in which you want to be and share a bed only with a loved one.

It is not surprising that the largest amount of time and effort is spent on organizing the sleeping space.

It is necessary to carefully think through the interior, based on the tastes and preferences of the owners, as well as focusing on the style of adjacent rooms.

To give lightness and airiness to the space, it is better to avoid bright color solutions and it’s more pleasant to be in a room decorated in pastel colors.

We want to make it easier for you to choose a bedroom set and recommend that you pay attention to furniture from the Actual Design company.

Why this manufacturer? It's quite simple. There are at least 10 reasons for this.

1. Exclusive furniture from the company “Actual Design” is manufactured according to unique technology(it is believed that for the first time bent sofas and...

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Dear customers. Please note that custom furniture has custom sizes and your wishes.
The same set of furniture can be both cheaper and more expensive. In addition to size, the cost is usually influenced by:

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Dear customers. Please note that we do not accept applications for the design and production of a separate bedside table, a separate facade or body, a glass cutout, a section of a table top, a set of handles, furniture with soft parts, restoration old furniture. We produce cabinet furniture in one piece (kitchens, wardrobes, walls, etc.) - the range is presented on the website. Furniture components and certain furniture services are provided by other relevant companies.

For our customers of cabinet furniture, we often take on solving non-standard problems: manufacturing window sills in the color of the furniture, solid gratings for bear skins, stairs, etc. (See section Miscellaneous Furniture/Other Furniture). We also accept applications for the production of any additional order, including the smallest and non-standard ones.

The production of bent furniture was invented and patented by Michael Thonet back in 1841. Bent furniture was considered a valuable novelty and the pinnacle of furniture art. It was made from beech, giving it incredibly beautiful, bizarre shapes. Beech is very plastic and bends easily, so this particular material was chosen for the production of bent furniture. Thonet improved the production of bent furniture, made it easier and simpler. He established the production of a wide variety of pieces of furniture with original curls and decorations: chairs, armchairs, rocking chairs, hangers, tables, couches, pieces of children's furniture and much more. Bent furniture very quickly gained popularity all over the world, including in Russia, and brought huge profits to manufacturers.

For a long time, technologies for the production of bent furniture have changed, and new solutions have been sought. The result of the work was the appearance of bent-glued elements. Due to gluing, such furniture has less strength, but allows you to create more original bends and curls. The production of bent-glued elements takes less materials, which means that the production of such furniture has become cheaper. Later, stamped parts appeared, which were given the desired shape by pressing.

In Russia, the demand for bent furniture has always been great, and is currently only increasing. Antique-style bent furniture is a decoration for any interior.

Such furniture has a number of excellent characteristics that support the demand for bent furniture. This is ease of manufacture, strength and reliability furniture designs, originality of patterns, light weight finished product, elegance of forms. In addition, bent furniture is made from wood - environmentally friendly pure material, and its production does not use toxic furniture adhesives.

Technologies for manufacturing bent furniture

The production technology of bent furniture “Thonet” consisted of several stages. Beech wood was cut into bars, then it was exposed to hot steam for a certain time until the desired flexibility and ductility appeared. After evaporation, the bars were stretched and dried on metal forms, after which they were shaped into pieces the required form through mechanical processing. When the parts were completely ready, they were assembled, resulting in pieces of furniture of extraordinary beauty. Such furniture was a decoration for absolutely any room, and its inexpensive price ensured its popularity all over the world.

Modern technology for manufacturing bent furniture

During the entire existence of bent furniture, the technology for its production has changed little. As before, bent parts were obtained after the operation of plasticizing wood, bending wood planks, drying the blanks and fixing the mold.

To achieve the necessary flexibility and ductility of wood blocks, various methods are used. In addition to the well-known and most common steaming, technologies are used for heating workpieces in a high-frequency current field (HFC), impregnating parts various solutions, as well as treatment with ammonia. Before steaming, pay attention to the moisture content of the wood. To achieve optimal humidity Manufacturers pre-dry the wood and then moisturize and condition it. Steamed or welded parts can be bent and then processed on specialized machines.

Modern production of bent furniture and furniture with curved facades fully mechanized and automated. To make bent furniture, parts with a round or oval cross-section are used, and the blanks are fastened with screws or bolts. They mainly produce armchairs, chairs, sofas, tables, flower stands, rocking chairs, hangers and other products. They are characterized by high strength and light weight, due to the fact that the parts have a small cross-section during processing. When using bent furniture, remember to periodically check the connections and tighten them if necessary.

Equipment for making bent furniture

When making bent furniture, the gluing method is often used. Bonding via TV is one of the most modern methods, used in the production of bent furniture. High frequency current provides efficient heating the entire adhesive layer. To do this, the parts to be glued are placed between electrodes through which high-frequency current flows.

The main advantage of this method is that when exposed to HDF, only the adhesive layer is heated without heating wooden blanks. This allows you to significantly speed up the gluing process and increase the overall productivity of the enterprise. HDTV machine must be equipped protective screen, protecting its personnel from harmful high-frequency radiation.

The bending machine is used for bending wooden parts. When using a bending machine, you can bend workpieces without pressing and with pressing by 20-30 percent, depending on the material. The bending machine is supplied with replaceable templates, which are used to give the required shape to the workpiece. Bent-drying machines are very popular in the production of bent furniture. hydraulic presses with heating. Blanks with tires are placed under the press, then they are clamped and dried.

On our website you can purchase a wide variety of equipment for making bent furniture and other products, such as inflatable boats, rubber shoes, suspended ceilings, various types of packaging and much more.

Austria entered the history of furniture with two great achievements - Biedermeier style and bent furniture. Without these two subjects, there will be no clear picture of the development of furniture in the 19th century, and much will remain unclear in the 20th century.

Both of these phenomena were brought to life by a specific Viennese taste and the Viennese sense of form, in both cases we are talking about the original response of the classical tradition to the challenges of the time.

In Vienna, the fate of Europe was decided perhaps only once, in 1814, during Congress of Vienna. The monarchs who defeated Napoleon lived in Vienna for a whole year, and the grateful city entertained them with endless balls. The result of which for Europe was the creation of the Holy Alliance, and for Vienna - the transformation into the capital of waltzes.

Koloman Moser. Desk-office for the Wendorfer family. Macassar wood veneer, boxwood inlay, ivory, tortoiseshell. "Vienna Workshops", 1903/04
Vienna Museum of Decorative Arts (Gerald Zugmann/MAK)

Dancing has become more relevant than military parades. The time of triumphs and civil pathos is over. A generation is coming, disillusioned with politics and public life, putting peace above all and home comfort, mine inner world and personal space. The hero of the era becomes a private person, not obsessed with civic rhetoric and public interests, but focused on his own private life. The hero of the new stage of romanticism is even more lonely and self-absorbed than before, wanting to hide from the world among friends and family. This attitude is best conveyed by the painting of the first third of the 19th century, the main subject of which was the chamber, interior genre “in rooms”.
This period from the Congress of Vienna to the revolution of 1848, in Austria called “formerz”, the time of the authoritarian rule of Prince Metternich, will be called the Biedermeier era by the next generation. This was the first era to discover the existence of a new elite - the bourgeoisie, and it was the first artistic style, expressing her tastes. Art leaves the courtly, aristocratic sphere and, as it were, descends to a lower class. Fashion is now dictated by the middle class.

OK. 1825. Vienna Museum of Decorative Arts (Gerald Zugmann/MAK)

“Biedermeier” is a very contemptuous name; initially it was a “talking” surname of a certain collective character, which became a common noun. The word is translated as “honest Mayer,” that is, any respectable man in the street, a kind of Pan Kowalski. There is some confusion about the origin of the term - whether this "typical representative" of the middle class was the subject of cartoons in Viennese newspapers back in the 1820s, or whether this literary pseudonym was invented by the poets Adolf Kussmaul and Ludwig Eichrodt in the 1850s. Be that as it may, in the minds of subsequent generations this period is firmly associated with the bourgeois-philistine system of values ​​- modesty, moderation, practicality, comfort, the quiet joys of life.
The defeat of France led to the decline of the Empire style, with its pathos of imperial power, a strong state, great public deeds, and military triumphs. The pompous Roman style is falling out of use. Decorative style era took shape in Vienna, as it was a large alternative center to Paris furniture production with its own tradition of a simplified, “democratic” Empire style. In addition to Austria and Hungary, the style spread to Germany and the countries of northern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, and England.

Biedermeier style chair. Walnut wood with blackened
and painted details. Vienna, approx. 1825. The lyre shape is very popular and is often found in furniture of this era

Chair in early Biedermeier style. Walnut veneer with blackened details Vienna, ca. 1810. Lightness of form, laconic lines, graphic silhouette - the Viennese interpretation of neoclassicism.

The end of the dictates of French fashion in culture meant development “from the opposite,” although still within the framework of neoclassical stylistics. Furniture removes its ceremonial and representative functions; it is no longer made for palace halls, but for residential premises. This is intimate, functional furniture that strives to create a cozy and comfortable environment even in formal areas. All the heavy Empire style decor, the abundance of bronze, gilding, sculpture, monumental proportions seem anachronistic. Clean planes, clear but not rigid lines, ease of use, lack of pathos of wealth are signs of the new time. Furniture no longer strives to resemble architecture; it returns to its original, carpentry character.

Biedermeier style chair. Walnut wood veneer. Austria, approx. 1825. The neoclassical completion of the palmette-shaped backrest in Biedermeier takes on a more whimsical design

Biedermeier style chair. Walnut and maple veneer. Austria, approx. 1825. Elegance achieved by simple means, but the gracefulness of the bend is on the verge of grotesque.
Firstly, the texture of the material is revealed. Biedermeier appreciated wood like no other style: admiring the nuances of its colors, patterns of textures - distinguishing feature this furniture. Mahogany and other exotic imported species are now too expensive; wood of local origin is in use, mostly light - maple, ash, poplar, elm, walnut, birch, cherry, pear wood. The origin of a thing can be determined by the wood: walnut - Austria, ash - Hungary, birch - Northern Germany, the Baltic countries, cherry - Southern Germany, etc. The rich pattern of fibers is appreciated: burl, wavy birch, poplar with an eye; Russia flaunts the fabulously beautiful texture of Karelian birch. There are few inlays; usually they only emphasize clean planes (such as the combination of light wood with ebony inserts). The frame of the furniture is made of cheap wood, which is then masterfully veneered, the sheets of plywood are carefully adjusted, and patterns are made from the fibers, for example, a “fountain”. Then everything is covered with a shiny, completely transparent “French polish”. The upholstery is mostly light colors, instead of silk and tapestries - chintz and grosgrain.

Biedermeier style chairs. Walnut wood veneer. Austria, approx. 1825. Striped upholstery in light colors is characteristic of this period.

Secondly, the shapes of the furniture are lighter. Instead of hard lines and clear divisions, there are the famous, smoothly curved outlines of Biedermeier furniture, so valued by his admirers. The legs bend slightly, the armrests of sofas and the backs of chairs are more noticeable, the lyre shape is very popular, the silhouettes of the cabinets resemble stringed instruments. Sometimes these lines are restrained to the point of severity, sometimes playful to the point of extravagance, but most importantly, they introduce the category of elegance into neoclassical furniture, and this important discovery will subsequently be used by another era.
In the classical tradition, Biedermeier turns to the grotesque, this explains the boldness of his formal experiments. This furniture does not carry the architectural logic of the order, it is something animate, as if inhabited by household deities, it exists within the order space. That’s why Biedermeier fits so perfectly into an architecturally detailed interior, while Empire style is able to “hold” orderless spaces. That is why Biedermeier interiors are so harmonious and human-scale.

Bureau-office. Mahogany, carved lemon tree, gilt bronze Vienna, ca. 1815. Vienna Museum of Decorative Arts (Gerald Zugmann/MAK)

Biedermeier appeals to pre-Empire, “anti-French” classicism, first of all English era Regency, with its curved "Greek" legs, openwork backs, chiseled details. True, in comparison with pre-Empire classicism, Biedermeier is not afraid to be riskily atectonic, fantasy (this also distinguishes Biedermeier from late Russian classicism, which coincides with it in time, but is more solid and “balanced”). Greater freedom of form, of course, gave rise to furniture that was more convenient and comfortable, giving it the very practicality that was so in demand by the era.

Two door chest of drawers. Walnut veneer with selected texture pattern, blackened details Austria, approx. 1825

All types of furniture are popular upholstered furniture for seating, especially sofas and sofas, as well as round tables, desks and secretaries (the age of active correspondence), spinets, that is, small harpsichords (the time of the Schubert craze), and a variety of transformable furniture - sliding tables and the like, which was also considered very convenient and expedient. From a practical standpoint, the durability of furniture was highly valued.
It must be emphasized here that despite the fact that Biedermeier is considered a middle-class style, this furniture is far from average in level. It is formally refined, technically virtuosic and very expensive in execution - it is not for the poor.

Michael Thonet. Chair Partial bent wood, partly walnut veneer, wicker reed. Boppard am Rhein, ca. 1836-1840. Vienna Museum of Decorative Arts (Gerald Zugmann/MAK)

Biedermeier really corresponded to the tastes of the German and Austro-Hungarian bourgeoisie, but this does not mean that these things stood in the living rooms of merchants and shopkeepers - they stood in aristocratic living rooms, the paradox is that the spirit of practicality and moderation embraced high society during that period. This was expressed not in a lowering of aesthetic criteria, but in the spread of the bourgeois principle of “living for oneself,” which fundamentally contradicted the principle of “living for show” of the entire previous noble culture. Biedermeier is not a direct continuation of the Empire style, but a natural, staged development of neoclassicism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, its last stage. This is the response of the neoclassical tradition to the main challenge of the 19th century - the advent of the era of the bourgeoisie. The answer is very successful, which is confirmed by the vitality of Biedermeier’s stylistic finds in the future.
Most of Biedermeier's items are anonymous, made by very skilled but unknown artisans. The only star is Joseph Danhauser (1780-1829), who founded a large factory in Vienna in 1804, which, in addition to furniture, produced many catalogs with furniture projects of his son, a famous painter.
Around 1835, the curves of the furniture from smooth ones became more and more intricate, the profiles became stronger and more expressive, and more carvings appeared. The drawing of things becomes more complex, including in the projects of Danhauser Jr. In the 1840s, the restraint and still classical logic of Biedermeier was replaced by neo-rococo, the first of the eclectic “revived” styles. In Vienna he is also greeted with delight.

Just at this time, the great innovator Michael Thonet (1796-1871) began his activities in Vienna. Thonet conducted his first experiments on bending plywood with hot steam in Germany; in 1841 he patented his invention. At an exhibition of his furniture, he is introduced to Prince Metternich, who invites him to move to Vienna. Thonet’s early works, for example, the famous chair of 1836-1840 from the MAK collection, are made in the style of the late Biedermeier - the shape of the Greek “klismos” chair seems to float, the lines tend to the decorativeness of Rococo.

Rocking chair, project 1874-1882. Partly bent, partly turned beech wood, brown paint, woven reed. Production "Brothers Thonet", Vienna, ca. 1890. Vienna Museum of Decorative Arts (Gerald Zugmann/MAK)

Here, at the transition from the Biedermeier era to the era of bent furniture, on the border of two great achievements, one can most clearly understand what Viennese taste in furniture is. This furniture is simple but elegant, democratic in its design, but technically virtuosic, it takes care of creating a cozy and intimate environment, it is elegant without being overloaded.
Thonet's furniture belongs to the classical tradition - a clear symmetrical composition, recognizable typology, familiar proportions. Thonet is an innovator not of form, but of technology. However, revolutionary technology allowed Thonet to develop a unique style based on the clear, graphic expressiveness of the “naked” silhouette - when there is no separate form and decor, frame and cladding. When not lines are a derivative of form, but form is the only line, when the whole thing is one, endlessly lasting line of an incredibly curved thin tree.
The essence of the technology is this: durable wood (usually beech) is softened by boiling or hot steaming in metal molds. After drying, the wood takes on a curved shape. If such a shape is cut from a block, then, firstly, the material consumption is very large, and secondly, the wood fibers in the block will still be straight, and if the load is uneven, the part may split. According to the Thonet method, wood fibers bend together with the block, and the wood seems to spring back.

Chair, model No. 8 Manufacture "Brothers Thonet" Bent beech wood, rosewood polish, wicker cane Vienna, 1858. Vienna Museum of Decorative Arts (Gerald Zugmann/MAK)

Adolf Loos Chair for the museum cafe. Bent beech wood, red paint, woven cane Vienna, 1898. Vienna Museum of Arts and Crafts (Gerald Zugmann/MAK)

The decorative possibilities of this method are practically inexhaustible, and its practicality is unprecedented - things are invariably spectacular, surprisingly durable, structurally flawless and cheap to make, designed for mass production. industrial production(possibility of assembly from ready-made parts). If Biedermeier's democracy was more declarative than real (all these were piecemeal, expensive things self made), then the democracy of bent furniture is truly all-consuming - during the second half of the 19th century, dozens of factories of the Thonet Brothers company produced tens of millions of items that were sold all over the world. Very often the name “Viennese furniture” is used precisely as a designation for furniture made of bent wood.

Thonet successfully developed the avant-garde idea - design is a derivative of technology and function - half a century before the avant-garde. Its "classic" Viennese chair 1858 and now it looks more modern than ever. In general, it is enough to mentally replace wood with metal tubes - and here you have avant-garde furniture of the 20th century, the line that was most talentedly developed in the 1920s-1930s by Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, who studied in Vienna (Brothers Thonet released a chair based on his design in 1933), and also created furniture from bent plywood Alvar Aalto. They brought a sense of risky atectonics that is recognized as cutting-edge, but the polished, laconic linearity is a Thonetian invention.

As for another direction in furniture of the 20th century, neoclassical, the legacy of the Viennese Biedermeier played a huge role in its genesis. Neobiedermeier is a movement in the culture of Austria at the beginning of the 20th century. That era is beginning to be seen almost as a Golden Age, “the good old days,” an era of true values; people resort to it in search of cultural identity. The nostalgia and passeism that surrounds Biedermeier is akin to the world of art - the artistic elite organizes “evenings in the Biedermeier style”, captured in the photo, they vividly resemble the paintings of Borisov-Musatov. After the decorative riot of Art Nouveau, the classical simplicity and clarity of Biedermeier seemed like a revelation. The key figure in this process is Joseph Hoffmann (1870-1956), not so much a great architect as a great designer of the 20th century. In 1903, Hoffman, together with Koloman Moser, founded the artistic and industrial association "Vienna Workshops", a real crucible of neoclassical forms and aesthetics in the 20th century.

Brilliantly interpreting the Biedermeier tradition, Hoffman and Moser developed everything - the forms and typology of furniture, glass and silverware, appliances, jewelry, drawings of ornaments and fabric printing. They formulated the very principle of combining restrained forms and luxurious execution - Art Deco only had to pick up this style. Art Deco will reproduce the same neo-Biedermeier cubic or “violin-shaped” chests of drawers on pedestals, armchairs with semicircular backs, and also admire the texture light wood, also combine polished silver with ebony or ivory. Today's wild popularity of Art Deco indicates that Viennese taste ultimately won out.

Oksana Rudchenko

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