Designers today continue to seek new materials and innovative ways to use them, which means that furniture designs continue to evolve and never become entangled in the rigidity of tradition.
Modern designers can focus on delivering maximum comfort in new ways. In living rooms, bedrooms and offices, modern furniture has become art, prized for its unique quality as well as its comfort and functionality.
Many of today's best furniture designers are Italian and come from a tradition that began after World War II, when large swaths of Italy had been destroyed and the greatest challenge was to rebuild much of the country. The Memphis Group brought its colorful and often shocking designs to products that ranged from typewriters to cars to furniture.
The Italian tradition of producing high quality modern furniture is carried on today by designers like Rodolfo Bertozzi, who designs spectacular Italian leather sofas for Polaris.
In modern living room furniture, sofas, coffee tables and chairs feature sleek, clean lines without the ornamental features of traditional pieces. The desk features a sweeping red or black leather arch design, a painted aluminum frame and a glass top.
Like many pieces of Italian-designed furniture, the Luna desk is a work of art as well as a functional furniture piece and its design received the Wellness at Work Award at the 2006 International Furniture Show of Milan.
These pieces of furniture are only a few examples of the broad palette of innovative designs being created today.
