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Top 6 hallmarks of quality furniture design
Your home is the centerpiece of your daily life. And your furniture is an investment in everyday comfort and creating a living space you enjoy.
With so many options and diverse levels of quality to choose from, understanding how to identify design quality can help ensure you select furniture that will last.
Adopting a buy well, buy once mindset benefits you and the environment. While not everyone can invest in sustainable furniture, it is gratifying knowing items built to last a lifetime, rather than destined to end up in landfills, will hold their value.
Here are the top 6 hallmarks of quality furniture design that will give you the confidence to select your next investment piece.
Custom-Made
KING furniture is custom made in our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities.
Opting for made-to-order designs instead of mass-produced stocked items will give countless customisation options from luxury fabrics and leathers, choice of cushion fills like memory foam or feather, to varying leg heights to suit your space.
Providing this added value and choice of tailored fit is intrinsic to the KING design philosophy.
“Every KING upholstered item features a printed label inside the cover that shows the customer’s order number and name.” explains the KING Design Studio. “We can look up that piece years later and reorder covers or add to modular settings as families grow."
This level of customisation means you end up with a product that fits your needs and can adapt to your ever-changing lifestyle and personal tastes.
Handcrafted
A true artisan and master tailor by trade, Rolly joined KING back in the 1980s as Pattern and Fit Specialist.
Handcrafted methods create a quality finish that cannot be replicated by machinery. With artisans who are experts in their trade you get the benefits of years of experience that result in a continual refining and perfecting of skill, creating unparalleled results.
While technology is integral to manufacturing processes, the trained eye and nuanced touch of the KING team of in-house craftspeople offers a special level of quality.
“Pattern making for an upholstered cover requires a skillset akin to tailoring a jacket. KING covers are removable, instead of being nailed to the sofa frame, which is the most common approach in the furniture industry because it’s simpler and less expensive” explains the KING Design Studio.
Removable covers are intrinsic to the KING philosophy of designing quality furniture that stands the test of time. Having the option to renew your covers extends the longevity of each piece, reducing the amount of furniture destined for landfill.
Handcrafting methods also play a significant role in the KING Outdoor Collection. Handcrafted natural fibres are woven by the skilled hand of KING artisans to bring perfection to every detail.
Solid foundation
Like all KING sofas, the Reo Recliner is made with a KING steel frame, working in unison with the Postureflex® Seating System to provide unrivalled comfort and lasting support.
The foundation of your furniture is where the support starts. Without a well-made foundation, the look and feel will wane over time. While aesthetics is important, the inside counts towards much of the quality and longevity of your furniture.
Every KING sofa starts with a steel frame. Backed by a 25 year warranty, the high-grade galvanised steel frame is built to endure and guarantee years of lasting comfort.
“Galvanised steel is extremely strong but has flexibility, it was a breakthrough structural material for building architecture, and we believe the secret to creating long-lasting luxury furniture.” says the KING Design Studio.
The KING steel frame is the foundation that supports the Postureflex® seating system, the same steel suspension used in luxury European cars. This robust combination allows for easily adjustable components and endless configurations.
Superior construction
Attention to the finest details will make or break the overall look.
The KING Design Studio recommends looking closely at finished details to identify if a product is well-constructed.
“Inconspicuous areas like the bottom or back of a piece of furniture is a good place to start. If short cuts were taken here, this may suggest the same for its internal structure and materials."
Not all details are visible. The feel and comfort will also reveal inherent qualities.
“While first visual impressions count, how a piece of furniture ergonomically interacts with the human body is a clear quality indicator. If a piece looks beautiful but doesn’t function well or isn’t comfortable to use, it's not a well-thought-out or well-constructed design.”
Through the years numerous comfort engineering techniques have been created and refined, which has led to the unsurpassed comfort quality that the KING brand is known for.
Aesthetically refined
Fleur’s ingenious folding backrests allow the timeless silhouette to transform instantly, offering high back support.
Refinement can be defined as subtle good taste; however, this doesn’t happen by chance. To refine a design takes careful consideration. The removal of unnecessary features produces overall sophistication and elegance and leads to achieving true mastery of design. This is one of the major ways to identify quality.
Reducing a design to its necessary elements leads to an expression of effortless simplicity that lasts a lifetime.
“Aesthetic simplicity in clean, timeless design silhouettes is a foundation of the KING brand because we take pride in creating furniture that lasts decades and can endure through decorator culture micro-trends that come and go seasonally.” explains the KING Design Studio. “We favour design details that offer functional value to the customer, and often these are hidden or only visible in-use.”
The restraint of simple design means superfluous features won’t be used to cover or make up for questionable or average quality. When uncomplicated design is paired with quality materials, you can be assured your furniture will stay looking good and even get better over time as it breaks in, the foam softens, or leather patinates.
Modular design
Jasper’s modular components can be arranged into numerous configurations - Jasper is a sofa, a bed, a side table, and a bookshelf rolled into one.
A modular design philosophy is an approach that allows independent parts to move and connect. This allows for easy customisation, and the ability to reuse and repair individual parts, leading to a longer life.
Modularity can help ‘future proof’ furniture when your tastes or preferences change, or your family grows. The option to take apart and reassemble large furniture pieces also helps make moving homes easier.
“Modular design can offer amazing benefits to the customer, whether the product internally is constructed in a modular way like our mattresses with interchangeable and reversible comfort options or is designed to be used in modular configurations like Jasper or Delta that offer huge flexibility with how the setting can be used and rearranged in a space.” says the KING Design Studio
Quay Outdoor Dining Table and Luna Outdoor Dining Chair represent refined simplicity and functionality.
True quality comes from tangible properties like durability and intangible properties such as aesthetics. Both of which intertwine to form a long-lasting and optimal design.
Identifying quality means confidence. Confidence that what you are buying has been made well – from its internal frame and construction to timeless silhouette, superior handcrafted finish, and ability to be customised, whether that is a modular design or custom-made order options.
Furniture with an original design, transparent information about its construction, and long-term warranties will give peace of mind that your new favorite piece will last the distance.
