December promises to be a big month for 20th-century furniture and decorative arts at fairs, auctions, exhibitions and events around the country. There is even a floating art gallery involved.
Twentieth-century work will be featured on the SeaFair, a new, 228-foot, $40 million yacht designed to accommodate 26 art and antiques galleries from all over the [...]

Kathy Ireland Home by Omnia Furniture MON-3LRS The antique finishing of the Monte Carlo Collection give this living room set an heirloom look. You will enjoy the comfort provided by the overfilled cushions and sinuous spring seating. The nailhead details and top grain leather add a little something extra to this 3 Seat Sofa Living [...]

Mark Golding and Paul Shutler have worked to create these pages for use by those interested in the development of furniture design and manufacture in the 19th and 20th centuries in Great Britain. Paul Shutler is a freelance furniture historian and researcher, and can be contacted via Paul Shutler
A DIRECTORY OF 19TH & 20TH CENTURY [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Classic design reigned at the International Home Furnishings Market in October in High Point, N.C., one of the world’s largest such trade shows.
One of the top style directions for 2007 will be French furniture — yes, we’re talking Marie Antoinette, gilt furniture and all those pre-Revolution Louis styles. This is furniture [...]

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 [...]

From her self-designed loft office, Kiki Luthringshausen can look down on a sun-drenched octagonal retail space filled with her finds.
Vintage framed photographs, Buddha statues and glass mosaic boxes top ornate furniture pieces under a collection of hanging chandeliers.
On the walls, colorful canvases painted to fit antique frames hang side by side with modern, organic and [...]

Have you ever thought about the many different furniture styles? Probably you have ever watched a program TV, where they showed people how to update an entire room of your house; let’s say the living room or bedroom. You can also read everywhere about the rustic style or about the Italian designs. However, do you [...]

Clars Auction Gallery’s Spectacular November Antique and Estate Sale which will be held on November 4th and 5th, will bring to the block some of the finest in antique European furniture and a collection of rare American historic ephemera and local San Francisco history not seen before on the market.
The very important collection of European [...]

Most people today know Pinocchio through the story and images of the 1940 Disney animated movie. But collectors like the older versions of Pinocchio, too.
The story was first published in serial form from 1881 to 1883 by an Italian, Carlo Collodi. The bad marionette-boy whose nose grew when he lied was a character in a [...]

Francesco Molon, the premier European manufacturer of fine furniture, opened yesterday its first showroom in the Middle East in the Pyramid Centre in Dubai.
The showroom is a joint venture between the Italian manufacturer and Al Aqili Furnishings, the leading UAE-based furnishings group.
Francesco Molon manufactures classical European furniture designed exclusively for affluent consumers. The company’s Dubai [...]