I want to reavamp my daughter’s room so that is is suitable for her as a sophisticated retreat when she comes home from university. As she is studying medicine, she will be a student for years to come and needs a room where she can work as well as sleep. I can’t find a [...]

The Graduate Series Home office has a modular design, tool-less bed system and endless possibilities. All products in the Graduate series feature a warm, natural tone and finish. The high quality hard wood frames are compact, strong and work great in small rooms while still leaving optimal space. The setup allows you to combine [...]

Furniture Lounge, the retro furniture store in downtown Champaign, will add a second store in downtown Urbana next month.
The Urbana store will be at 126 W. Main St., with owners Scott Schaub and Amanda McWilliams shooting for an Aug. 15 opening.
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Furniture Lounge focuses on midcentury modern furniture from the 1950s through the 1980s.
But the Champaign [...]

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 [...]

Cozad’s long-time furniture store is closing its doors.
Boerkircher’s at 829 Meridian will stop selling furniture after almost 50 years. The floor-covering business, located around the corner at Ninth and H streets, will remain open.
“I am now 57 years old. The scope of private business in all of home furnishing and all of floor covering is [...]

Like the ugly duckling that turned into a beautiful swan in Hans Christian Anderson’s famous fairy tale, a large log harvested six years ago from a tree in Potter County and rejected by a sawmill has been crafted into beautiful dining room furniture.
In 2001, Chris Lowman of Eldred was a log scaler and veneer salesman [...]

MONEY Gram, an international money transfer firm in conjunction with Stanbic Bank, has donated furniture to the Islamic University in Uganda [I.U.IU], Mbale campus worth $ 4500.
“Money gram is proud to support the Islamic University. We are aware that a part of the students’ community is made up of students from all over the country [...]

A RANGE of furniture inspired by some of Wales’ most significant historic sites has gone on display at the London New Designers Show.
Up-and-coming furniture designer Cathy Evans, from Pontyclun, is displaying her first exhibition at the prestigious event.
The gothic fantasy of Castell Coch, near Cardiff, right, has been a particular inspiration for the young designer, [...]

For eight years, Mark Whitley toiled as a professional fine furniture maker without formal accolades.
Often, he had trouble finding a market locally for his work, though it’s showcased at the Kentucky Museum of Art + Craft in Louisville.
As a result, the young man often was discouraged.
But he kept on perfecting his art anyway, with support [...]

When Jolie Berry and her husband, Dr. Eugene Berry, purchased Wakefield Plantation in 1987, they also purchased some of the furniture in the home.
“We knew they were original furnishings,” Jolie Berry said. “We were just grateful to have something to put in the rooms.”
Imagine their surprise when New Orleans attorney Paul Haygood, the great-great-great-grandson of [...]