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After looking at the different types of bohemian style of clothes, I started to look at how this style can be
translated on to furniture. I liked the varied use of patterns and fabrics used in the clothes and wondered
weather the same techniques, fabrics and styles are used in the making of furniture as well.
When Researching the furniture I found that many of the items contain a large amount of patterns. Similar
to the clothing. The use of clashing, detailed patterns are used heavily with in chairs mostly, this would be
due to the large surface area, maligning more of the pattern is able to be showcased on the item. Also within
the chairs, one type of fabric is normally used to cover the whole of the chair, so there is not much of a
pattern clash. This is similarly shown in the bohemian style of clothing as one type of pattern is used through
out the piece. Colour is another aspect of the furniture that stood out, as many of the items contain a large
amount of colour, this is more prominent within the furniture as brighter, bolder colours are mostly used
through out most of the furniture such as pillows and the chairs. However, some of the patterns and colours
are more subdued compared to others. One type of colour is also used within furniture, looking at one of the
images of the chair you can see that variations of the colour blue is used through out the chair, with a very
light detailed pattern within the fabric.
Another aspect of the bohemian style of clothes is that a variety of fabrics is used through out. Sheer is
mostly used, however within furniture this type of fabric is not as prominent. Tassels, pompoms and
embroidery stitching is mostly used with in furniture. This may be because sheer fabric would be less
wearable upon something like a chair or a pillow and wont be as long lasting compared to something like a
piece that has been embroiled onto the fabric directly. Different techniques would of been used to create the
furniture as the fabric would of needed to fit the shape of the object that it would of been wrapped around.
By having fabrics such as sheer and using techniques such as layering and frills this would of made it more
complicated to cover the frame of the object and make it look presentable.
I really like the way that the bohemian style has been translated onto furniture and feel that there are many
similarities between the two. I personally like the furniture more as I like the amount of detail that can be put
into the item and still make it look elegant. I also like the way that the style of the pattern on the fabrics
matches the style of the object that fit is on, such as the chairs. The fabrics that are on the chairs allows for
the style of the chair to stand out, emphasise and exaggerate the shape of the further. The patterns that are
on the chairs allows for other parts of the chairs to be recognised as well such as the feet and the curves of
the back and arm rests of the chair.
Another piece of furniture that I have also liked the look of is pillows. The use of velvet and tassels, reached
out to me as ordinary pillows do not contain traits such as this. Accessories on the pillows such as this allows
for the pillow to stand out and become more of a piece of furniture itself, rather than an accessory adding to
the space. I also like the use of patterns on the pillows as the large surface area allows for the pattern to
contain a lot of detail and make the pillow more eye catching to the person looking at it. The variations in
size and shape of the pillow also adds, as it allows for different or same ideas to be shown differently on a
different sized surface.
I would like to explore the bohemian style of furniture further and see weather there is more object that
contain similarities to bohemian style. I would also like to see what wallpaper would look like and weather
there is heavy detailing upon the paper and weather different fabrics are used upon that sort of surface as
well, such as velvet. I really like the way patterns sit upon the varied shapes of the chairs and the cushions
and I would like to explore this further when looking into this stye further.