Celebrate the time-honored tradition of Eastern scholarship and learning with this antique-style bookcase. Constructed by cabinetry experts and artisans in China’s southern Guangdong province, this practical accent piece features a sturdy, handcrafted wooden frame sheathed in luxurious black leather. Hand-painted scenes in rich tones of green, gold and red adorn the entire [...]

Since 2005, Formanova, a maker of high-end furniture, has been trying to conquer a customer in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. It was in April this year that the company managed to sell its first products and conquered a large customer, Western Furniture, which owns five stores in the country. “In three months, all [...]

Steinhoff International Holdings, Africa’s largest furniture maker, offered to buy South African retailer JD Group for R15bn in stock as a way to deflect interest from buyout firms.
Shareholders of JD Group, the biggest seller of home furnishings in South Africa, will get 3,6 Steinhoff shares for each JD share, the companies said.
“They know each other [...]

A plethora of handicraft items, showcasing the rich culture and the immense latent talent of tribals was on display here during a week-long Handicraft Fair organised by the Orissa Government this week.
The fair provided a good platform for the poor tribal artists coming form various parts of Orissa to showcase their artistic potential.
The fair was [...]

Today, we are experiencing a revival of one of art history’s longstanding trends — the painting, collecting, and preserving of the house or home portraits. Whether an artwork’s subject is your house or the Oldest House in America which is located in St. Augustine, Fla., images of homes have recently regained popular interest and have [...]

With most of the art world’s high rollers in London this week for predicted record sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, a small auction in New York is calling attention to a group of artists who, some argue, have been unfairly excluded from the market’s gains.
Tomorrow afternoon, Swann Auction Galleries is holding a sale of over [...]

When Roberta Mand needs groceries, she has a world of choices in her own back yard.
For regular shopping, she goes to her neighborhood Kroger store. But for steaks, she prefers Costco. For a pecan-encrusted tilapia to take home for dinner, she’s off to the Fresh Market. And if she’s hankering for sushi, she hits Wild [...]

Móveis WW , based in the small city of São Geraldo (southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais), started out in the 1950s as a small manufacturer of carts, barrels of cachaça (a traditional alcoholic beverage made of sugar cane), chariots, and other items typical of the time.
When the company was already run by ‘Didi’ (the [...]

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 [...]

HOUSEHOLD electrical appliance manufacturer and distributor Amalgamated Appliances (Amap) said yesterday it had agreed in principle to buy the local furniture-manufacturing interests of Steinhoff Africa for R1,15bn, or 491c a share.
Steinhoff Africa is a wholly owned subsidiary of Steinhoff International Holdings.
The transaction, which Amap said would be funded through the issue of shares and debt, [...]