VIVID- VIBRANT VISIONS IN DESIGN, the successful annual furniture design competition, celebrates its sixth year in Melbourne as part of FURNITEX, Australasia’s largest furniture and furnishings Trade Fair.
A selection of Australia’s most dynamic furniture designers and design students will showcase their newest and most unique creations at VIVID 2008, held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre [...]

Three floors of the Bard Graduate Center, at 18 West 86th Street in Manhattan, are filled with curvy, modern, bent and laminated beech easy chairs and chaise longues with woven, webbed seating — perfect for any beach house. There are daybeds with adjustable reading stands and companion floor-level book “cribs,” armchairs with rotating bases [...]

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c49057) has announced the addition of The Furniture Industry in Russia 2007 to their offering.
This report offers a comprehensive picture of the furniture sector in Russia, providing trends in furniture production and consumption, furniture imports and exports. Factors determining the demand for furniture are examined, as well as furniture distribution and furniture [...]

A delegation of 15 furniture store owners from the Arab Gulf countries will come to the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo to participate in the Brazilian Contemporary Furniture and Home Décor fair, to be held between February 9th and 12th at the Imigrantes Exhibition Centre. Organized by the Brazilian High-End Furniture Manufacturers Association (Abimad), [...]

Someone’s trash might be another’s treasure, but if it’s in front of your house, it’s going to the city’s landfill.
The city’s refuse department picks up appliances, furniture and small tree limbs (smaller than 4 feet). This time of year workers also are vacuuming leaves.
Most materials end up in the city’s landfill off South Park Road. [...]

HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES, INC. will release third quarter 2006 earnings results on Thursday evening, November 2, 2006. In conjunction with the release, Havertys will hold a conference call with analysts and investors on Friday, November 3, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. (EST) to discuss its financial results.
Interested parties may listen to the call at http://www.streetevents.com (Individual [...]

From the small mountaintop town of Cragsmoor in upstate New York, Peter Harrison has a thriving one-man furniture business. His studio-produced tables, benches, cabinets and wine racks can be ordered in a variety of woods and customized sizes and shipped anywhere UPS will deliver.
But, first and foremost, Harrison considers himself an artist — not a [...]

Made in America. The phrase is starting to take on the same quaint, anachronistic feel as, say, “Mr. Smith received a gold watch from the company after 40 years of loyal service.” It’s simply another stark reality of our globalizing world. But to assume that American manufacturers have to padlock the factory doors and move [...]

The Mid Century retro modern furniture movement has taken center stage in the world of design furniture today. In recent years, mid-century modern furniture, glass, ceramics, and textiles have become hugely popular among those who appreciate the stylish contribution these pieces make to contemporary homes.
At the close of World War II the US was electrified [...]

Antiques dealers are always rediscovering the past, searching for forgotten or undervalued areas in the market, where important discoveries can be made — and new collections formed from scratch.
Now extravagant late-19th-century and very-early-20th-century furniture from Europe is surfacing in the market both in the United States and abroad.
“It’s been the Russians, Middle Easterners and [...]