Marie Antoinette and her husband, Louis XVI — the stars of Sofia Coppola’s new film — are getting lots of press these days. And why not? The Austrian-born queen and her French hubby, who lost their royal heads in 1793, were arts patrons who left their mark on fashion and design. Just as velvet [...]

Two trends have dominated the mainstream home furnishings marketplace for the past decade: an urban loft style of skinny sofas and plastic chairs, and a masculine look of big brown leather sofas and chunky dark tables and chests.
Watch out. The girls are back in town.
A new company called Brocade Home is set to launch the [...]

Greek home furniture retailer, Fourlis, who has the local IKEA store franchise, said at its AGM that it expects 2006 pretax profits to rise 20 pct to 34 mln eur, and group sales to rise 10 pct to 448 mln eur.
The company added that regarding its expansion plans for the IKEA franchise to Bulgaria, the [...]