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Furniture from garden tree?

June 14th, 2009

We have a gorgeous willow tree in our garden which will have to come down in the near future (For all you about to admonish me, i wish it could stay up, but its becoming unsafe and damaging our house foundations!) I would love to use the wood to make some furniture for our [...]


International Famous Furniture Fair (Dongguan)

September 2nd, 2008

International Famous Furniture Fair (Dongguan), commonly known as 3F, is a leading furniture fair in China since 1999. This semi-annual exhibition held in March and August, now shifted to September, is a leading trade event serving the global furniture and furnishing community. The 20th 3F will be on from 6 through 10 September 2008.
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Swarovski crystals make this furniture shine

March 23rd, 2008

Pedro Rivera Wiener has dreams for your lifestyle that include subtle doses of bling. His Crystal Furniture Collection, peppered with Swarovski crystals, combines clean lines and smart decorative elements, such as inset leather panels, strings of jeweled effervescence and thoughtful detailing.
Within Wiener’s RW Lux showroom in the Design District, which reads like a chiaroscuro of [...]


Adirondack Furniture – Good For Any Patio Décor

June 14th, 2007

When it comes to décor, especially outdoors it’s easy to make it classically comfortable with Adirondack furniture. You may be thinking that Adirondack furniture is better suited for a resort on the East coast or a cottage in the woods. But, it now comes in so many shapes, sizes and materials that it is virtually [...]


Antique or not, small furniture is what she seeks

May 28th, 2007

Marcia Wilk has a soft spot for small things — especially small furniture. She has about a dozen pieces spread throughout her Grosse Pointe Park home.
“It’s not dollhouse or child-size it’s in between,” she explains. “It was made by carpenters and woodworkers as a craft to show off their work. It didn’t really serve a [...]


Joanne Newell creates custom covers and more with her trusty old sewing machines.

May 28th, 2007

Joanne Newell started sewing as soon as she was old enough to hold a needle.
“I can remember sewing doll’s clothes for my sister’s friends,” said Newell, who was about 7 then.
Newell doesn’t sew doll clothing these days. She creates slipcovers for furniture and cushions at her business, Slipcovers-Cushions, 330 S. Highland St.
She also creates cushions [...]


Drake offers furniture to charities

May 22nd, 2007

Approximately 25 trucks converged at Drake University on Thursday to load used furniture from residence halls for a variety of nonprofit organizations across Iowa.
The university offered more than 350 sets of furniture – bed, desk, chair and dresser – to charitable groups and government agencies throughout the state. Most of the items came from Stalnaker [...]


Fear of Furniture

April 19th, 2007

It may have been an overexposure to early Frank Lloyd Wright, or perhaps too much time spent in boats, but when I was young, and until very recently, I was horrified by furniture. I always thought that a perfect domestic architecture would be heavy on the built-ins. Shelves, benches, various seats and berths—these were the [...]


Furniture treasures in £12m sale of the century

April 15th, 2007

HE was the finest cabinet-maker and furniture designer Britain has ever produced… with prices to match.
The rich and famous flocked to the workshops of Thomas Chippendale, the Otley-born carpenter’s son – paying enormous prices for his rococco, Chinese and neo-gothic work.
One such patron was William, 5th Earl of Dumfries (1699-1768), whose commissions included a magnificent [...]


Uganda: Softwood Furniture in Vogue

April 15th, 2007

ARDWOOD furniture is gradually phasing out of homes and in its place soft-wood wall units, kitchen cabinets, coffee tables, beds and wardrobes are now an attraction.
Softwood comes in different forms such as chipboards and medium density fibre. The wood is made out of compacted sawdust from tree pulp and it is imported from South Africa, [...]