China International Furniture Fair (Guangzhou), a show ever known as the barometer of Chinese furniture industry, enjoys a reputation of being the Asia’s furniture sourcing center. The biannual exhibition has grown to be a must-attend event attracting increasing attention from the world furniture industry. In March 2005, the CIFF succeeded in taking place at two [...]

An upscale San Francisco furniture and home accessories retailer is opening a sales studio in Milwaukee’s 3rd Ward.
Design Within Reach, a 10-year-old national company, will lease 5,800 square feet on the ground floor at 173 N. Broadway.
Design Within Reach specializes in chairs, tables, outdoor furniture, lighting and other home and office accessories.
The retailer is among [...]

Furniture manufactured by two local firms, Liana Cane and Precision Woodworking are to receive exposure to an “up market” Trade Show in New York in May to test the readiness of their products for the ‘high end” international market. Speaking recently with Stabroek Business, Chief of Party for the USAID Guyana Trade and Investment Support [...]

Householders, proud of their home, can do nothing better over the coming four days than visit the Furniture and Interiors Fair which the Malta Trade Fairs Corporation is holding at the trade fair grounds in Naxxar.
The fair, in its 25th edition, opened on Wednesday and has goods on display from 73 exhibitors. There will probably [...]

The estate of Henry Ford’s only granddaughter has given $15 million worth of art — including works by Picasso, Matisse and Renoir — to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
After the works are examined at the museum’s conservation laboratory, many will be incorporated into the DIA’s reinstallation plans for 2007, officials said.
Josephine Clay Ford, who died [...]

American Furniture Warehouse’s President and CEO, Jake Jabs, has recently been honored by both the Metro North Chamber of Commerce, which serves one of the fastest growing regions in the state - four counties just north of Denver, and ColoradoBiz magazine, one of Colorado’s top business publications. At its annual gala earlier this month, the [...]

Bob’s Discount Furniture, the fast-growing New England furniture retailer with 21 stores located throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey and New Hampshire, announced a series of events during the week of Feb. 26, 2006 designed to promote the National Education Association’s “Read Across America Day” as well as the National Pajama Program.
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KUALA LUMPUR will play host to internationally renowned architecture, interior and furniture designers during the upcoming Mines International Design Intelligence (Midi) Convention.
Among the highlights at the Midi Convention, to be held on March 10 and 11, will be a gallery featuring innovative creations from designers such as Karim Rashid, Jaime Hayon, Kustaa Saksi, [...]

The second annual ARC of Denton County Craft Fair and Festival will be held Feb. 25 at Lakeland Elementary School, 800 Fox Avenue, in Lewisville. The hours will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and admission is free.
Crafters are expected from across the North Texas area with a wide variety of crafts, seasonal items [...]

One good turn deserves another at Fuller Craft Museum this winter in the exhibition Wickedly Wild and Wonderful Wood: Recent works by the Massachusetts South Shore Woodturners. The exhibition is on view now through April 2 and features a variety of useful and sculptural lathe-turned objects by 30 members of the local organization. A reception [...]