Changes in the market of upholstered furniture of the medium price range over the past year: Landmark - Transformable models.
Preparing overview of the latest market for the upholstered furniture of the medium price niche for 2003, we found that trends did not change. Manufacturers are still focusing on the concept of multipurpose use of objects, therefore, there are models with the possibility of transformation.
Support the idea of folding furniture "Furniture Furniture March 8", "Prestige Furniture", Anderssen, La Repubblica, "Moion", "Raild Design" (Russia), the Swedish IKEA and others are not lagging behind. This is explained by the fact that the Russian consumer is still It will not soon be able to abandon an additional bedroom for himself or guests, since the average housing conditions do not yet allow all the bedroom to allocate. Some more "expensive" and at the same time smaller in terms of the volume of manufacturing companies "InSTroymebel" and "Kalinka" make an emphasis on representative soft furniture for living rooms with built-in bars, tables and even electromechanical drives, which unfold the sofa elements and move the sitting person in the pose Relaxation.
Covers
Probably the most democratic upholstered furniture with removable covers. They can be easily removed for washing and repair or in order not to sleep on a stupid bedspread. The device of a sofa or armchair is whatever: Click-Click type transformer or accordion, a regular "book" or just a static frame with pillows. The case can be fabric, like the IKEA company, which offers a selection of a set of cables of several colors to the Musing Sofa model at a price of 2000 rubles. Cloth- 100% cotton with a pleasant to the touch with a surface resembling Teflon processing. Easily stretches on polyurethane foam seat.Lalio's youth sofa from La Pepubblica is fully concluded in the stitched cover with a "waffle" texture, inside of which a layer of material resembling a synthetic procession is laid. In order to decompose the all-metal mechanism of the type "Accordion", it is only required to unzipped the zipper. The case and under it the mattress with PPU is fastened with a set of strips with "Velcro" to Kcarkas sofa bed. It will not be possible to quickly remove the bedspread until all the mounts are unfastened.
The designers of the M UNION factories found their decision. They initially set out to simplify the procedure for the release of the sofa from the cover. Covers of models 036 and 037 from the Papilon collection (with a thin filler) holds on the frame only by the rubberized cord. In order to expose the mattress, a few seconds are required. This allows you to sleep on cleaner than the outer coating, the mattress, which also has a removable erasing case. So you always have a choice which surface to use. For our part, we note that in the earlier models of "Click-Clak" from Anderssen (similarly externally and constructively with newcomers from "UNMEN"), a reliable, but less durable compounding of the frame with a cover on Velcro, which, as is known, Frequent operation is torn in shreds. Therefore, experts were recommended to remove the case in case of cleaning or replacement.
The framework of the back and seat seats "Labrador" from the "Factory March 8" are made of a coniferous timber. The linen box, the corks are glued and tested with furniture brackets, beech guides, made of a laminated chipboard 16mm thick. The bottom is sewn with a sheet of fiberboard with a thickness of 3.5mm, so it is not recommended to store heavy things under the seat. The angular compounds are reinforced with beech inserts, as a result, the stationary feet of the sofa are stated. The backlock loops are attached to the chipboard through a reinforcing beech panel with a mustache nuts. In the decomposed state, the back falls on the box. Legs and seat rollers are attached to plywood and frame. The sofa pillows have the so-called integral flooring: the lumbar of the sitting is holding a more dense latex-like foam rubber, and the upper part of the back is packed with a soft synthetic fiber-holloofaber.
Removable covers provide the widest space for designer inspiration. Ordering several types of tissues of different textures and colors for the reasonable price, you can flexibly update the interior. The easiest, but not the most individual way offers IKEA: sofas are originally sold on the principle of "frame with pillows separately, a case separately." The crowder always has a choice, which color from 3-5 possible prefer. For example, the Musing model is accompanied by beige, blue and red covers. Our factories, of course, also offer a wide range of fabrics laid down in price categories. Names can be from 5 to 8. The cost of the furniture object as a whole changes, depending on the price of the fabric, in 1.5-2ruse. But the choice of options is big, albeit to order. For example: the cost of sewing a new cover for model 036 from "UNMEN" is 5000-6000 rubles.
Guarantee
Most manufacturers give a guarantee for furniture as a whole for a period of 18 months. The exception is made up of models sold in the branded salons "Prestige-Furniture" and Ikea- here the fulfillment of obligations is extended by 6 months and is 2 years. A safe furniture guarantee implies the elimination of hidden defects of mechanisms, frame, packing and upholstery during the prescribed period. Under the obligation does not affect the damage of the material as a result of force influence. In other words, if you cut the fabric during operation or transportation or broke the fabric, broke the frame, damaged the legs, the replacement of the damaged element after the examination will have to pay. The cost of wooden parts is low, but their replacement sometimes leads to folding furniture, which can cost half the cost of the subject. Therefore, before buying, you should assess the risk: the availability of pets, your weight, restless children IT.P. An annoying cost is easy to avoid, if you buy furniture with fully or partially removable covers. They can be wrapped, to replace and quickly replace. As a rule, manufacturers support the warehouse program of fabrics, and pick up a new upholstery to the sofa, say for armrests, easy.
The warranty begins to act from the installation of furniture directly in the room, if its transportation or loading is carried out by a manufacturer, an official dealer or a specialized company. It eliminates you from unnecessary experiences for the safety of the sofa (chairs), because the responsibility for his damage lies with the supplier. Here the Russian saying is operating: "Hurry up the people." It is better to wait for the corporate car than unsuccessfully demanding money from the carriers hired to the ambulance hand.
When buying furniture in some companies, delivery is free, in others for the money of the client. For example, the rise on your floor and installation in the apartment of the objects from "In-Row" will be paid additionally. AV shopping centers IKEA operates its transport company with which a separate contract for transportation is. According to the contract, the company undertakes to prevent damage to your property in the delivery process.
After purchasing or installing furniture, a warranty card or an act of delivery acceptance is drawn up (annex to the contract). The date affixed in it is the warranty point. If an ignorant or error dealer forgot to put a number, then you will have to hope for the rules adopted by the manufacturer. Usually, the factory is considered to be the starting date for the obligations of the date of manufacture, solve the issue in favor of the buyer and take furniture to repair, and the dealer is invoicing. But we do not advise you to check how these or other companies do, it is easier to clarify whether the warranty card is filled.
Cot
According to many specialists, one of the most convenient to sleep transformable structures "clamshell", or "scroll" (in Russia there are similar mechanisms of the French-Belgian company SedaS-Meral). After folding, a relatively flat bed without seams and joints is formed. The only drawback is that to ensure the transformation under the seat, as a rule, use a relatively mild (harmful for the spine) PPU based mattress without a spring block. A negative effect is somewhat branded with a rigid metallic frame of the mechanism with tightly stretched rubber-tensile belts. Nevertheless, rest on the French fold herch is still far from comfortable sleep at the real orthopedic mattress.The novelty from the "Market March 8" is a sofa bed "Beretta", equipped, unlike the above-mentioned design, the Italian flap of the company Tornado (Italy) with a mattress on the spring block. The springs in it are fewer two-digit and connected in a special way, which makes it easy to flex a mattress with a height of 14cm. A set of upholstered furniture "Beretta" consists of 7 products. The number of the sofa bed with a sleeve width of 80, 100 and 120 cm with a length of 195cm. It may soon appear clamshell with a sleeping place with a width of 160cm. The model range is designed to embody in the skin and various tissues.
The novelty from IKEA lies in the fact that the collection of sofas "ECTROP" is now offered a new range of covers made in Poland, Czech Republic and Russia: beige, turquoise, blue, red, unwrapped with embossed, white in blue stripes (as in the illustration). The ETPROP will include 4 items: a sofa bed into two seats, sofas for two, three and angular without transformation mechanism. The frame of all models is made of a pine bar on the glue-groove glue compound. Side and rear walls, the base panel is made of chipboard. Case from one hundred percent cotton is put on the frame from above. Pillows are packed with nodo-nailable bird, polyester fiber and wrapped in elastic polyurethane foam, which does not carry any load, and serves to give a clear shape. Note that sit softer and more convenient on unwashed sofas, because under the seat pillows there is no hard frame, as in the sofa bed, and flexible coil springs are installed
The framework of the "Beretta" model from the "Factory March 8" is made of coniferous wood and multilayer plywood. Latex-like foam rubber is served, equipped with a fuelon 600 filling layer, which increases the product comfort. Soft seats and elastic, they have good residual deformation, That is, after compression, the material quickly restores its shape, which contributes to latex-like (high-elastic) foam rubber. The armrests are arranged in the same way. The sofa backing pillows are filled with a synthetic laminate material "Hollow", resembling fluff.
Quality
Estimate the quality and reliability of upholstered furniture in the first glance is difficult, often the design is hidden behind the motley upholstery. Therefore, experts recommend when buying any sofa of Italian or Russian production to pay close attention to a number of nodes that will tell you about the quality of the product as a whole.
First of all, carefully look at the visible parts of the frame. They are easy to consider in the folded models. The most durable and reliable welded metal framework. Following it, in terms of mechanical properties, there is an array of wood (pine, birch, beech) and multilayer furniture plyons, a little inferior metal, but lighter. The parts are performed from both massive and glued bars, which is characterized by a higher size stability. Pine frame can be distinguished by characteristic slightly resinous wood, birch- in a bright shade, and beech even on the form is durable and has a characteristic fine fiber structure of fibers. Of the laminated chipboard, serious manufacturers make only linen boxes, so if you get a frame of the seat from this slab material, boldly refuse to buy such furniture.
The second key element is polyurethanetan or foam rubber (they described in detail about the N 10 of our magazine for 2002), which use most manufacturers as a filler for pillows, backs and armrests. For these materials, there are two fundamental indicators: apparent density (expressed in kg / m3) and rigidity (shows how pressure in the kPa must be put on the material so that its deformation for compression amounted to 40%). Density and rigidity are ambiguous. With the same density, the stiffness of the material (PPU or foam) may be different. For comfort, the rigidity is responsible. What it is higher, the greater the orthopedic effect has a seat or mattress on you. And vice versa than it is lower, the more comfortable to sit in the chair or on the couch. For the durability of the product and the restability of its initial form corresponds to the density. Its minimum value for seats is 30-35 kg / m3, for the backs - 20-25kg / m3. Understand the touch, what is the actual density or rigidity of the PPU or Foam rubber, can except the specialist-machine, which years 10 "ties" these materials. You can trust the seller who informs the buyer to the brand of foam rubber or PPU. For example, ST3035- letters denote the material brand, the first number of density (30kg / m3), and the second-rigidity (3.5 kPa). In addition, compared to sensations how different parts of the decomposed sofa bed differ in stiffness, it is possible, simply by following it. It is best if the surface is turned out to be placed, then your spin or loin will not be in the "hole" harmful to the spine.
And finally, the easiest way to distinguish decent upholstered furniture from miserable similarity is carefully considering the upholstery. A small manufacturer cannot afford not only high-quality PPU, but also good sewing machines, which is reflected on the properties of the seam. Incable furniture is unacceptably the presence of a bracket (which is naked fabric) in the visible part of the upholstery, even behind. If you see a bracket, this indicates a low production level. All seams and lines should be straight and docked in places in the articulation of furniture parts, such as backrest and pillows. This also applies to strictly compartment double seams of a decorative delay. The main condition is the absence of folds in the upholstery, if they are not provided for by the model design.
Sadders
The main disadvantage of multi-purpose furniture lies in a smaller resource and concessions that make designers and designers to enter a sleeping element in the specified dimensions. When such a task is not worth it, it is very interesting in form and content objects. Their design is conditionally divided into two directions. Curvate flow belongs to truly classic models or in strict English style (type "Chesterfield"), suitable for cabinets, libraries, smoking rooms, or in colonial aesthetics, repulsted from the principle of maximum comfort. The second direction is modern, based on simple geometric forms, furniture with mechanization elements.
The first group fits two series with the same name "Bali" - from "InSTroymebel" and "Prestige-Furniture", as well as the Leather Cabinet Sofa "Orion" from Albert Shtin (10222rub.). Series of the same name differ significantly. "Prestige-furniture" produces its design series with the "Venice" mechanism involving daily operation. Triple sofa with upholstery of the first category will cost from 24000 rubles.
The second group can be attributed to the minimalistic model "Kalinka34" (from11700 to 29000 rubles), made based on the modern Italian furniture of the Saratov Factory "Kalinka". The design consists of an asset frame with a spring seat. The same group belongs to two similar to the appointment of the modular sofa of the same manufacturer and the company "InSTroymebel". They are interesting in that they consist of several types of elements - from a two-seater sofa to the laid-out under the action of the electromechanical actuator. In "Kalinki 35" includes side elements with a roll-out or lifting bar, a chaise lounge on a roller support with an electromechanical drive or without it, but with a lounge box, a double sofa with a lurking box, a three-bed module (as desired, with a built-in bed) and finally Angular element with elevator for drinks or without it. Modeled "Sinema" there are no retractable or roll-out elements, but in the back, behind the protective glass, the bar is arranged. All roll-out accessories and drives are German production. Drives (stawett) "feed on" 24V voltage from the remote transformer. Designers of the Kalinka factory are currently considering the use of batteries designed for 200 opening and closing mechanisms, since the cord and the power adapter spoil the impeccable appearance of the products.
The editors thanks the company "Europlast", LLC "Instroymebel", Holding "Furniture Furniture March 8", Factory "Kalinka", "Prestige-furniture", IKEA for help in preparing the material.