A Brazilian museum robbed of valuable artworks has put up a reward of $5,000 (£2,876) for their safe return.
The Picasso, Dali, Matisse and Monet paintings were stolen from the Chacara do Ceu museum in Rio de Janeiro while carnival festivites were in full swing.
A telephone line has also been set up allowing anyone with any [...]
The World Bank is planning to open a store this spring that will sell crafts from developing countries to help promote socially responsible trade — and help burnish its image in response to critics who say the agency does exactly the opposite.
The store, Pangea Artisan Market and Café, is to be in the downtown Washington [...]
Jordan’s Furniture of Avon, MA, rated one of the most unusual furniture stores in the world, has been named by the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) as a 2006 Corporate Friend of Children. Jordan’s Furniture was selected because since 1998 they have been engaged in helping children in foster care in Massachusetts find loving [...]
Cebu’s furniture industry must further strengthen its subcontracting sector to regain export growth, Canadian ambassador to the Philippines Peter Sutherland said.
According to Sutherland, furniture subcontractors are vital sector of the industry that needed further development.
“The subcontractors provide the most important component of export products, maximizing quality to make the product more competitive for the global [...]
Buying new furniture can be a perplexing task, and deciding on styles, colors and pattern is only part of the challenge. There are also questions of scale: Will that overstuffed sofa and armchair fit into your living room? Will that table be dwarfed by your dining room?
The standard advice has been to draw up your [...]
The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $218,200 in fines against steel frame furniture manufacturer Dehler Manufacturing Co. Inc. following an inspection at the company’s Chicago facility.
OSHA opened a follow-up inspection at Dehler after the company reportedly failed to show it had corrected safety violations involving power press brakes and [...]
Struggling MFI Furniture group says up to 1,470 jobs are at risk with its decision to get out of the bathrooms and sofas range.
The news came as it announced a recovery plan after poor sales wiped out annual profits.
The firm, which recently sold its French Hygena chain and won an asset-backed £150m loan facility to [...]
Business makers have predicted that the Indonesian furniture market will regain strength in the second quarter of 2006 after experiencing a gloomy period following a hike in fuel oil prices in October last year.
Chief executive officer of PT Garant Meubel Indonesia (GMI) Andy Setiawan said here on Friday that the fuel oil price hikes last [...]
Francesco Molon, the premier European manufacturer of fine furniture, opened yesterday its first showroom in the Middle East in the Pyramid Centre in Dubai.
The showroom is a joint venture between the Italian manufacturer and Al Aqili Furnishings, the leading UAE-based furnishings group.
Francesco Molon manufactures classical European furniture designed exclusively for affluent consumers. The company’s Dubai [...]
Lauren and Kevin Russell have no problem getting their wave hall tables out into the market. In fact, it’s the best selling item of Russell & Mackenna.
Their problem is they can only sell as many as Mr. Russell and a few others can build and paint.
And that takes a while.
Two years after Mr. Russell, 34, [...]