Visualize Your Lifestyle: Three New Approaches (NAPSA)—Which design concept suits your lifestyle? To help you visualize the way you wantto live and create a home you can feel comfortable in, cutting-edge designers now offer lifestyle furnishing concepts. “Today, living in beautiful, welcoming and elegant surroundings is a luxury one shouldn’t sacrifice. It’s a need, an aspiration that is natural to us,” said designer Pasquale Natuzzi. “And a wayofliving that improves our daily existence and with which weidentify.” For example, Natuzzi offers the three lifestyle approaches— casual, urban and vintage—which each consider the total environment including furniture models and coverings, plus accessories, flooring and lighting to complement them. Urban The Urban concept is a cos- mopolitan interpretation of the home. It’s a way of furnishing that is masculine, yet sensual. Underpinned by rich, strong colors such as red, black and white, this palette is an excellent foil for the more theatrical colors of golden yellow, jade green and blue. New wood finishes in walnut and cheery and glowing satin metals enhancethe Urbansensibility. Sofas feature generous and embracing shapes that invite relaxation. Chairs with sleek lines and hidden details introduce a surprising comfort to modern design. Accessories couple silver with ceramic and highlight sinuouslines. Vintage Inspired by memories of gener- A lifestyle approach to design considers the total environment—furniture and accessories. ations past, the Vintage lifestyle takes its form from colonial, Victorian and Edwardian styles. It’s a marriage of past memories and current life experiences. Patina and grace are found in design details and coverings such as Nubuck and nail heads. It features colors typically encountered in private clubs and libraries such as Cognac, Aged-Whiskies and Hot Buttered Rums. Casual Free-spirited, informal and harmonious sum up thelifestyle called Casual. Designed with family in mind, the look is best described as a day at the beach—a place where every dayis a holiday. Warm and embracing,it’s a habitat inspired by the Mediterranean coast. A mix of comfort and love of nature—pale woods, natural tones—colors of water, sky and earth. The colors, textures and accessories all contribute to an atmosphere of inner balance and harmony. For more tips on finding your style, visit www.natuzzi.com.
