The slump in the housing industry is knocking the stuffing out of furniture sales, merchants and analysts say.
A recent casualty is Domain, an upscale regional chain that is liquidating all 27 stores, including its showroom at the Promenade at Sagemore in Marlton.
“In the past year or so we’ve lost Levitz, Storehouse and Bombay Co.,” said [...]

Just as seasons change, so does taste in patio furniture. BeFurnished.com is aware of their patrons’ evolving tastes in style and design and are offering several new designs this season.
Whether consumers are looking for furniture to entertain with or to relax in, BeFurnished is sure to have what they want–either in this season’s new line, [...]

Moosehead Furniture Company has made its first shipment since reopening a manufacturing plant this fall.
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The shipment was a cause for a celebration ten months after the company — then the state’s largest furniture maker — closed its plants in Monson and Dover-Foxcroft, laying off 126 employees.
In September, the company was revived when [...]

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Wicker furniture has been used since the ancient Egyptians, but most of today’s collectors are buying pieces made in the 1800s and 1900s.
In the early 1830s, a Boston grocer named Cyrus Wakefield was watching ships unpacking cargo. Bundles of rattan wrapping were discarded. He thought it might be suitable as a material for furniture, [...]

Christie’s sale of English furniture on Monday in New York includes some 18th-century Irish antiques, each carefully notated in the catalog with a typically Irish winged-harp symbol. The harp is helpful, because it can be difficult to identify 18th-century Irish antiques.
Even experts become confused, but help is on the way. Yale University Press has just [...]

HNI Corp., which makes office furniture and fireplaces, said on Thursday quarterly profit fell 27 percent, hurt by softness in office furniture orders.
First-quarter earnings fell to $20.7 million, or 43 cents per share, from $28.5 million, or 55 cents a share, a year earlier.
Analysts had forecast earnings of 45 cents a share, according to Reuters [...]

Furniture shoppers can score big-time if the Chicago Cubs or Boston Red Sox win the World Series.
A home goods retailer in each of those markets is offering to refund the price of season-opening purchases if the hometown team takes the 2007 championship.
Libertyville, Ill.-based Park Avenue Home Furnishings says it’ll give a full refund for [...]

For Tim Zyto, it was a wake-up call. Then, a call to action. A year ago, Zyto, a Montreal furniture manufacturer and retailer, read a story in Time magazine that asked this seminal question: “Should we be worried about global warming?”
Zyto was very worried after reading it. “I was so shocked, I almost fell over,” [...]

LEWISTOWN – Two local men have joined forces to open a new retail store in Mifflin County that specializes in antique furniture reproductions.
Primworks LLC is the name of the business created by partners Paul “Butch” Richard and Barry Marker, both of Lewistown. The new store is located at 821 Electric Ave., near Berube’s Crystal Clear [...]