In the not too-distant-future don’t be suprised to find yourself sitting on your favourite chair in the house that arches over your head to reveal a Hi-Definition touch screen where you’ll be downloading the film you wanted to hire for the night and chatting to your buddies on Twitter as you all watch live streaming of the game that is being played just now. The door bell sounds and you flick the arm rest to reveal a small video monitor that shows the pizza delivery guy outside your door that you ordered and paid for online just 20 minutes ago. You pause the chair’s massage mode and shout the kids downstairs for dinner.

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On January the 20th 2009, America will place a new man at the helm of power, in what is commonly known as Inauguration Day. Barack Obama and his family will then move into the White House for the next 4 years at least. And, boy, does Mrs Obama, have a great chance to ‘make change’ in the White House by giving the place a modern contemporary makeover.
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It was a golden era for the silver screen and those who were part of it shall be forever remembered as demi gods within our culture. Stars such as Marlon Brando, John Wayne, Clark Gable shone in an era when scripts were filled with wonderful dialogue and even popular singers of that time, Elvis Pressley, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, were thrust onto the big screen with various levels of success. Vintage Hollywood it was and still is.
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I have had heaps of fun this morning playing with a number of online room planners. With just a few, simple, clicks of the mouse I had re-worked, re-furnished and re-imagined how my living room, bathroom and kitchen would should look like. As always, there is some bit of marketing going on in the background like when you want to drag a new designer coffee table into our digital creation it’ll tell how much it costs and where is best to purchase it from, clever.

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The new James Bond film, “A Quantum of Solace”, has a makeover in stunning designer furniture with many of the Hotel scenes showing furniture from the Maxalto collection, produced by Italian designers, B&B Italia. The featured furniture was the Talamo Bed, which was handy for our man Bond, as we all know he likes to lay down in luxury, every now and again.

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Every home should have a talking point, a conversation starter, an interesting or quirky something that stands out, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. These, “conversation starters”, nine times out of ten have a modern contemporary furniture feel about them. But, what about the pieces of furniture that just don’t know where the line is, are so outrageous, that it makes you wonder just what the designer and the people who purchase these pieces were on at the time.

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