Hubbell Incorporated (NYSE: HUBA, HUBB ) today announced that Timothy H. Powers, President and Chief Executive Officer, will make a presentation at the J.P. Morgan Basics and Industrials Conference. The Hubbell presentation is scheduled to begin at 8:30 AM ET on Monday, June 5, 2006.
The live audio of the event will be webcast on the [...]
A local furniture manufacturer has made display space available in its showroom for the Maine Highlands Guild.
Along with Moosehead Manufacturing Co.’s products and its new line of furniture called J. Wentworth, the company’s store offers an assortment of guild offerings from handbags to jewelry.
The public was invited last week to view the company’s line and [...]
‘The office furniture market in the UAE is estimated between AED 700 million and 1 billion, and the carpets and flooring another AED 1 billion,’ said Ajai Dayal, General Manager, Retail and Marketing, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group.
The residential and commercial property market in the Middle East has been moving at an incredible pace and [...]
Neville Tuli is looking for $33.5 million to invest in what may be India’s hottest market: Art.
Soaring prices for contemporary Indian works prompted the chairman of Mumbai-based Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art Ltd. to start the nation’s second art investment fund. Osian, with sale rooms in New Delhi and Mumbai, will start raising money on June [...]
The Vermont Arts Council has launched its largest community art project ever.
Vermonters around the state are turning thousands of wooden artists’ palettes into paintings, sculptures, musical instruments and other works of art.
“Some of them are whimsical and humorous, some are serious, and some are landscape-y and some are just bizarre,” said Alexander Aldrich, executive director [...]
Paris is set to introduce millions of people to the wonders of Australian Indigenous art.
On June 23, President Jacques Chirac will open the city’s newest museum, the Musee due Quai Branly.
Tucked away near the Eiffel Tower, it is a multi-million dollar monument to non-Western art and it will permanently pay homage to Australia’s Indigenous culture.
The [...]
Three London auction houses are offering 19th- and 20th-century Russian art worth as much as $51 million this week, a month after New York sales broke records.
The sales of paintings, sculptures, icons, porcelain, arms and Faberge works open today at MacDougall Arts Ltd. with an auction the company estimates may fetch 5 million pounds ($9.4 [...]
Mr Price Group chief executive Alastair McArthur said he believed knock-down, or kit-form, furniture would become a significant part of the company’s furniture and homeware business in the future.
More than 60 years ago, 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad founded the Swedish knock-down furniture retailer Ikea, which has since gobbled up market share from traditional European rivals with [...]
An agreement has been reached in the case of a Lexington furniture store that closed it’s doors while still owing many customers merchandise.
Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced Friday that an agreement has been reached with Norwalk Furniture Corporation of Norwalk, Ohio. The corporation will fulfill outstanding furniture orders placed by approximately 82 customers of the [...]
Durian, the king of fruit’s, is being threatened by a shortage of rubber wood for the furniture industry.
Although durian trees, as a source of timber, are nothing to shout about, more and more furniture makers are turning them into tables and chairs.
And many durian growers in Johor who were hit by low prices for durian [...]