* 2 raised panel doors
* Rustic hardware
* Product Dimensions: 40Lx19Wx17H”; 40 lbs.

* 2 raised panel doors
* Rustic hardware
* Product Dimensions: 40Lx19Wx17H”; 40 lbs.

A Santa Fe company has turned to a word for skilled woodworkers who came to New Mexico from Spain in the 1500s to rebrand itself.

Taos Furniture is now Carpinteros to reflect the company’s work in constructing custom, hand-built, hand-finished furniture. The firm uses local woods, such as Ponderosa Pine, and is one of the few woodshops preserving New Mexico’s history of furniture design and craftsmanship. Read more »

Kacey Fine Furniture (www.kacey.com) is proud to announce the launch of a monthly series of full color catalogs to showcase their broad selection of superbly crafted Colorado furniture collections designed for every room in the home. These catalogs will feature the top collections and newest designs in bedrooms, dining rooms, and living rooms from the world’s finest and most respected brands.

Consumers will be able to view a variety of design styles, including modern, contemporary, Old World, country, traditional, European Classic, and Rustic, and all collections reflect the best craftsmanship and materials. Pricing information will also be included on all items in the catalog so that customers can easily compare the exceptional values that Kacey Fine Furniture offers.

Kacey Fine Furniture is known for their outstanding customer service as well as their top of the line furnishings. The store is family owned and is currently run by Leslie Fishbein. Leslie takes pride in being involved in the day to day operations of the store and says, “Our customers are very important to us. Hundreds of plans are on file that showcase how the individual needs of customers have been satisfied by taking advantage of Kacey Fine Furniture’s free design services.” Read more »

Sandra Sigler has closed her two furniture stores, the Furniture Nook and Inside Design, and moved all the leftover pieces to her warehouse for a wall-to-wall sell-off. Leather furniture, casual dining, office furniture and more is priced significantly below cost from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Sunday at 7045 S. Fulton St., Centennial, 303-662-0865.

BG Distributors, which usually sells its furniture and home accessories only to the design trade, will sell floor samples and overstocks at half of wholesale price from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Sunday at its warehouse, 775 S. Jason St., 303-292-3330.

As the Gates redevelopment project gets under way, wrecking crews are poised to move into the old warehouse district on South Santa Fe Drive south of West Alameda Avenue. Here’s what’s happening:

• Brandon Home Furnishings, 900 S. Santa Fe Drive, 303-715- 9200, starts its store-closing sale Thursday, with furniture, accessories, imports and rugs marked down by 70 percent of retail. Read more »

What better place to show contemporary furniture than one of the most unique retail spaces in the city?

By Design Direct has opened in the Interstate Caves at the southeast corner of Interstate 435 and 23rd Street. With their curved walls and lack of windows, the caves give a futuristic background to the inventory — sofas, dining room sets, bathroom vanities, bedroom furniture and more.

Henrik Svendsen closed his Danish Inspirations in Overland Park in mid-2004. He is now concentrating on the import side of the business and is supplying the store. Peter Kristensen, a former manager at Danish Inspirations, is now sales manager at By Design Direct. Between them they have more than 40 years of experience in the furniture business.

The Reeder Family Trust, which has owned the caves for 30 years, also owns the new 30,000-square-foot store. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays; and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. It is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Read more »

When Tom Huang looks at a chair, he doesn’t just see a place to sit.

He sees an intimate object that connects everyone who has ever rested there, waited there, dreamed there. He imagines the sentimental value it might hold for a family. He senses the hands of the artisan who crafted its legs and seat and back.

Once in a while, he also recalls a little step stool he created in third grade.

“I cobbled this thing from pieces of lumber that my dad had sitting around that already had a groove cut in them. I put a board in there, and so the idea was that you could sit on it and put your shoes on the board,” says Huang, assistant professor of industrial design at Kansas University. “In some ways I was already thinking about the ritual of getting dressed, and how can an object enable that ritual. Read more »

Visitors to Wadoo Furniture Co. will encounter a selection of furniture unlike any other in Fort Collins. That’s exactly the way owner Amy Satterfield planned it.

Wadoo Furniture Co., 314 E. Mountain Ave., opened June 1. The store, Satterfield said, sells art furniture crafted and painted by a select few of the nation’s cutting-edge furniture artists.

“I’m looking for everything to be hand-crafted, hand-painted one-of-a-kind pieces,” she said. “I’m looking for a lot of color.”

Satterfield’s 500–square-foot retail space is packed with eclectic and unusual home furnishings. Satterfield negotiated contracts with many of the artists to maintain exclusive territory for their works. She believes Wadoo offers the best concentration of art furniture to be found in Colorado. Read more »