This holiday season new furniture shoppers and home remodelers can put down that tattered 1/4-inch scale drawing and fire the pricey interior decorator. Design Yourself Interiors, Inc. (http://www.designyourselfinteriors.com) has created a useful, reusable and affordable Christmas gift, stocking stuffer, hostess gift or Hannukah gift for home - life-sized “DYI furniture templates” that will replicate the [...]

Malaysia has assured Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott that it is not exporting furniture made from illegally logged timber to Europe, news reports said Monday.
Prescott, who arrived Friday for a four-day official visit, had raised European lobbyists’ concerns that Malaysian furniture imported by Europe was made from wood obtained by illegal logging in neighboring [...]

Industrial Timber Finishing has completed an order of guest room furniture for the Observatory Hotel in Sydney. The furniture is made from matched flame mahogany veneer, with inlaid stringing and cross banded borders, and finely polished in a 2-pack finish. Industrial Timber Finishing is one of the few companies left with the cabinet making [...]

That snazzy new sofa is about to get more expensive.
Because of rising fuel and other raw-material costs, consumers will likely face higher prices for furniture in the coming months.
They will also see more offerings at the high end of the market, say participants who are convened recently in High Point, N.C., at High Point Market, [...]

Halloween items have become popular collectibles. Perhaps it is because they can often be found at yard and estate sales. Perhaps it is because there are so many new Halloween items, everything from witch-shaped candles and plastic pumpkins to trick-or-treat bags, jewelry and elaborate costumes. But even today, there are few character dolls that commemorate [...]

Newton-based furniture manufacturer McCreary Modern Inc. has purchased and plans to reopen a former Kincaid Furniture plant in Gamewell, outside of Lenoir.
The company will move its existing woodworking operation into the 137,000-square-foot plant, which has been vacant two years, and expects to add 45 new employees within a year.
The plant will make wood frames for [...]

Bobby Dekeyser doesn’t just think out of the box; he throws the box out entirely. Nepotism isn’t a bad word around his multi-million, multi-nation business; it is at the core of his business philosophy. He speaks of the “soul” of his furniture, and decided to start his company while lying in a hospital bed [...]

IN THE HANDS OF A LESS disciplined artist, “Swarovski-crystalled” furniture would probably have been glittery but gaudy, a tasteless attempt at creating a look of luxury and opulence.
Swarovski obviously knew that. Constantly searching for ways to showcase the versatility of its products, the Austria-based company had “lent” its crystals only to people it knew [...]

Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space?
The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches.
They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.
Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become [...]

SALEM - Ever since Marco Polo took the Silk Road in 1271 to the land called Cathay, Westerners have imported Chinese goods and culture from tea to Taoism, from mahjongg to feng-shui.
In June 2005 the Peabody Essex Museum established an aesthetic trade route to explore how classic Chinese furniture inspired [...]