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Give a touch of elegance to seating in interiors

The right touch: Interiors lend a character to living space.

What kind of a role does seating play in interiors? "Just as your flooring, it lends a character to your spaces," says Eshwar Bhat, interior designer who has done a special lifestyle study in `Modern, informal and traditional seating' in the city. "I think the evolution of seating has always been a smooth affair, the transformation has been rather parallel and concurrent with the unfolding of one's trend and style in living."

From river grass handwoven mats with plant extracts for colour that adorned the mud floors in South Indian villages to the rose and teak wood sturdy furniture that threw a colonial look during the British rule, India had abundance of `earthy and natural' arrangements for living room seating arrangements. Contemporary living has thrown its share of additions and in comes sofas of all styles and shapes with materials ranging from leather, steel, cane and jute to a heady concoction of fabric-based outer designery clothing that lends a signature up-to-date appearance to your interiors.

"The current style is not just concentrating on what you sit on, it depends on how you sit, amidst what you sit and where you sit," says Eshwar. And this happens with the coordination you bring in with your flooring, wall treatment and the seating that emerges out of all these, says Eshwar.

"If you have the latest vitrified flooring, you could texture a portion of your wall with brush paints or floral wall paper and customise your sofa sizes to suit your spaces. Then, to match your textured wall, you could choose a floral fabric for your sofa that has sturdy steel frames to get more contemporary. In case you have wooden flooring, go in for any kind of pure stone wall panelling and bring in seating arrangements in any kind of wood, making the wood look more prominent for throwing in a sturdy makeover."

Tangent-The Furniture Mall, known for its unconventional and sleek designs in living room seating, has in its `contemporary collection' imported moulds from European countries and has customised solutions to go with tastes, spaces and purses.

Tangent-The Furniture Mall is a venture of the Euro Group.

The other activities of the group include real estate, vitrified tiles, wall tiles, sanitaryware, agglomerated marbles, aluminium composite panels, plywood, prelam, mica, veneer and wooden flooring. Tangent has is a chain of exquisite furniture showrooms with four showrooms in Mumbai, and one each in Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, Bangalore, New Delhi and Chandigarh. www.tangent.co.in

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