Johnston Casuals 2582L / 2582R Who couldn’t use some versatility in their space? The Encore Contemporary tagre Set, featuring sleek yet functional designs, gives you all of that along with loads of style. With several beautiful glass shelves and many available metal finishes, this contemporary tagre is versatile enough to match any dcor. Individually [...]

Dipped in a garish green rubbery coating, the ornate Louis-style dining chairs from Six Inch of Belgium looked like irradiated doggy chew toys. The white fiberglass centipede reared on its legs was really Scolopendra, a 7-foot floor lamp made by Site Specific Design in Brooklyn, N.Y.
And the beanpole clad in fluorescent pink? That was designer [...]

When the massive elm tree outside Joan Murray’s Madison Park home came down with Dutch elm disease, Murray and husband Mark organized a wake so the neighborhood could mourn the leafy, 100-foot giant boasting 120 rings. (They counted.)
But Joan Murray didn’t have a plan for the tree’s afterlife — not until Jim Newsom showed up [...]

Room & Board, a Minneapolis-based furniture retailer offering unique home furnishings that combine classic, simple design and exceptional quality, is making strides toward a more ecologically-responsible future for the home furnishings industry. As a founding member of the Sustainable Furniture Council (SFC), a consortium of furniture manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and non-profits, Room & Board will [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Large-screen TVs, laptop computers, cell phones and homeowners desiring ambience, innovative styling and smart storage solutions are clearly driving furniture design.
Furniture makers have been challenged to create pieces that meet the desires of the sophisticated, savvy homeowner, and clearly they have managed to deliver with furniture that makes being organized hip [...]

Youth furniture is growing up.
It’s hardly a surprise that kids attuned to style and accustomed to choice would expect the same when it comes to furnishing their bedrooms. And manufacturers are giving them what they want – furniture that’s sophisticated and customizable, just like what Mom and Dad demand for themselves.
Robin Campbell, marketing services manager [...]

Trend-setter Maria Yee is taking home furnishings design to the next level with her latest assortment of handcrafted BambooTimbre(TM) furniture, showcasing an array of intricate forms never before possible in bamboo furniture making.
Yee’s patent-pending BambooTimbre is one of the fastest growing renewable materials made from the finest timber bamboo species — [...]

Couture designers Silvano Banfi and Frank Zambrelli have teamed up with upholstery vendor Robin Bruce to create a new line of furniture for introduction at the upcoming High Point Market.
The duo is known for their signature designs for top fashion houses including Judith Leiber, Calvin Klein and Nanette Lepore, as well as their own couture [...]

Another N.C. online furniture seller has been sanctioned by state regulators and a state court. National Furniture of High Point can no longer require upfront payments for orders unless it puts money in an escrow account, places orders within five days and gives a “realistic” delivery time, the N.C. Attorney General’s office said Wednesday after [...]

A High Point furniture distributor accused of taking money up front and not delivering goods when promised is facing a new court order, Attorney General Roy Cooper said today.
On Friday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway agreed with Cooper’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop National Furniture of High Point and its owner [...]