BRITAIN’S third-biggest supermarket chain, Asda, is planning to go head-to-head with Ikea, Argos and Next in a £500m assault on the £9 billion-a-year UK furniture market, writes Jenny Davey.
The company will tomorrow launch an internet site dedicated to furniture and over the next two weeks 800,000 catalogues will be distributed in Asda stores across Britain [...]
HIGH POINT, Mo. - They strive for high quality in High Point.
In business since 1996, brothers Steve, John and Ed Ramer have been building quality oak furniture designed and handcrafted at their shop, Ramer Brothers Furniture.
“This was something we decided we could do so dad could retire and stay home,†Steve said. “We wanted him [...]
It may be hard to imagine someone falling in love with a chair, but Susane Ronai says she’s done it lots of times.
”I look at them and fall in love. I don’t want to let them go,” says Ronai, who searches for chairs from the 1940s for her boutique in the Miami Design District. Since [...]
THE Penang Furniture Manu-facturers and Dealers’ Associa-tion (PFMDA) generated about RM2.8mil in sales during the Penang Furniture Exhibition 2006 (PENFURNEX) three months ago.
State Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs committee chairman Lau Chiek Tuan said the three-day exhibition from Sept 1, held at Penang Inter-national Sports Arena (PISA), was a resounding success compared to last [...]
For a few precious days after Santa comes, the children’s toys are nothing but a joy. Scattered around the tree, they add to the festivity of the season.
But after you cart off the tree, you have a “kidsplosion” on your hands.
“You want your home to be kid-friendly without looking like a day-care center,” said Shelby [...]
IN the eyes of furniture restorer Denise Karger, no vintage flea market find is too far gone for a 21st-century revival. Her advice for that Alvar Aalto armchair you scored? “Refurbish it the right way,” says Karger, who has run Lleonarts, a custom upholstery business in Los Angeles, for 15 years. Quality restoration involving eight-way [...]
The latest design trend has nothing to do with which colors are out or which styles are in. What’s new in the design world is a growing social conscience.
That phenomenon was nowhere more apparent than at this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, where any number of high-end firms displayed their efforts to [...]
Living Spaces Furniture, one of the largest furniture retailers in Southern California, purchased a 220,000-square-foot industrial building at 14400 Arminta Blvd. in Panorama City from S&V Van Nuys Associates. The sale price will remain undisclosed, but the property was originally listed for $24.2 million, or approximately $110 per square foot. Living Spaces plans to demolish [...]
Extended warranties can be big moneymakers for retailers. While such warranties are more closely associated with electronics and appliances, they are also a mainstay of the furniture industry. Extended warranties–essentially service contracts that are supposed to cover fabrics and manufacturing defects–are often seen as a sucker’s bet because their cost can approach or even outstrip [...]
The straight line in contemporary furniture had become so taut, so hard-edged and brittle, it was bound to snap. The geometrics couldn’t get any more square, the legs any more straight or upholstery more taut. While beautiful in its simplicity, it had become so spare that there was no place left to pare. It was [...]