Alvin Hall's World of Money: Could wine improve your bank balance? Jul 26, 2008
"One of my favourite clients has got a nice little home in Palm Beach, a castle in England, a rather stately home outside of Chicago, he's got a world class English furniture collection but he knows nothing about wine. "So, he'll say 'Scotty can you go get me about two thirds white and one third red and here's a six figure allotment to go do that. " Though Scott would love to have that assignment every year it usually works out to be about once every two years or so. However, Scott is noticing... (BBC News -- UK)
The Trump Organization and Nakheel Sell Most Expensive Penthouse in Dubai Jun 23, 2008
Each furniture collection embodies the perfect marriage of ageless beauty, modern styling and 21st century ergonomics. Poltrona Frau furniture is found in ocean liners, palaces, embassies, luxury hotels and private homes around the world. (PR Newswire)
45m House That Time Forgot Jun 7, 2008
He said: "The opening of Dumfries House to the public is a historic and exciting occasion. "The property itself is stunning, its furniture collection exquisite, all of which will leave a lasting impression on the great number of visitors it will undoubtedly attract. " A spokeswoman for the prince said he had high hopes for the project. He had described the prospect of losing the house - the first to have an Axminster carpet - and its artefacts to private buyers as "a major tragedy". The... (Glasgow Daily Record)
Cindy Crawford: Furniture line has 'a lot of me in it' May 16, 2008
So it should come as a surprise to no one that supermodel Cindy Crawford designs a furniture collection for Rooms to Go. But when company CEO Jeffrey Seaman first approached her with the idea, Crawford's initial response was "Why me?". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
Confidence pervades Milan Furniture Fair Apr 13, 2008
One of those ventures is Meta, the contemporary furniture collection to be unveiled by Mallett, the venerable London and New York antiques dealer. Another is a Beverly Hills hotel designed by France's aging enfant terrible Philippe Starck and furnished by Italy's Cassina with a shop run by the New York design impresario Murray Moss. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* Thomas Meier made heresey stylish Apr 2, 2008
A furniture collection is also manufactured in Europe. At times Maier encountered opposition. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Nursery decor gets a modern makeover Mar 18, 2008
Scandinavian furniture collection by Babi Italia and Mod Pod bedding set available at Babies 'R Us. FEATURED. (AZCentral -- Home)
The Hoffman Group prepares to deliver a resort in Myrtle Beach Mar 8, 2008
Unit features include granite countertops in kitchen and baths, tiled entry, kitchen and baths, carpeted living and bedroom areas, at least one Jacuzzi style tub with ceramic tile surround, custom furniture collection and flat-screen televisions ... The optional package includes stainless steel appliances, ceiling fans in living and bedroom areas, travertine tile backsplash in kitchen, deluxe plumbing fixtures, deluxe cabinetry, crown molding, and a deluxe furniture collection. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
* EPA encourages 'clean sweep' for Lunar New Year Jan 28, 2008
"In view of the demand to dispose of old furniture and used goods and clothes, large furniture collection services will be provided by the administration free of charge during the week," said Yuan Shaw-ying (K^), director-general of the EPA's department of environmental sanitation and toxic substance management. Yuan also invited all foreigners living in Taiwan to participate in this tradition by signing up for cleaning activities hosted by their local governments. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Taiwan)
Diana inquest: How The Rock found himself in a hard place Jan 21, 2008
There's the Royal Manner Furniture Collection, the Rug Collection, the China Collection (teapots at $31. 95), and the Royal Butler Wine Collection (from Australia, $10 a bottle). (Independent)
Design product of the year Dec 24, 2007
The Dutch design duo, Studio Job, conceived the Robber Baron furniture collection as bronze casts of factories belching out pollution and bomb-scarred, 17th-century cabinets. Latterday robber barons cheerfully paid tens of thousands of dollars for them. (International Herald Tribune)
Closer look at the designer: Libby Copeland Oct 24, 2007
The Eames' set is just one of the classic designer pieces in her personal furniture collection. Other pieces are Brno dining chairs by Mies van der Rohe and classic Arne Jacobsen Series 7 chairs at the breakfast table. (AZCentral -- Home)
Sturdy pieces first used in old Carnegie library Oct 18, 2007
COLUMBUS Oak aficionados may find a treasure or two within the 1915 oak library furniture collection that will be featured at Saturday's city auction. The furniture collection includes several round library tables, chairs and display cases as well as a 20-drawer card catalog, five drawer desk and a large conference table. (Columbus Telegram, NE)
Flames devour city history Oct 15, 2007
The entire McClure family furniture collection, from bedroom sets to parlor sets. Cane, camera and medical collections. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Zahid Sardar: Design Spotting: World Design Congress Oct 14, 2007
When he premiered a furniture collection for Driade in 2005 in Milan, Fukasawa said the evolution of his Ishi sofa design started with a river rock. His Muku furniture collection the next year, also for Driade, came from the simple, honest post-and-lintel wood construction of Japanese temples. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Modern Looks Oct 6, 2007
Designer's furniture collection for Metropolitan Home heading here ... Designer's furniture collection for Metropolitan Home heading here Saturday, October 06, 2007 By Patricia Sheridan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Love it or loathe it, Memphis style with its color and kitsch is back Sep 17, 2007
Memphis was cooked up in Ettore Sottsass's Milan apartment one night in December 1980, when the host, then in his sixties and a grandee of Italian design, invited a group of younger designers to develop a furniture collection to show at the following year's Milan Furniture Fair. It was to be a protest against the dry modernist style that had dominated design for decades, and they called it "Memphis" because Bob Dylan's "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" was on the record... (International Herald Tribune)
B. Smith fashions furniture line Sep 1, 2007
She's made millions as a model, restaurateur, television host and author, but now she's making history: B. Smith is the first African-American woman to have her own nationally distributed furniture collection. It's not something easily achieved in the centuries-old furniture industry, but Ms. Smith and manufacturer Clayton Marcus pulled it off during the International Home Furnishings Spring Market in High Point, N.C. "At Home With B. Smith," her signature line, will be in showrooms soon. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
What Doesn't Make an Icon Aug 2, 2007
Herman Miller certainly does its part to revive erstwhile icons; in 2006, the company relaunched George Nelson's 1958 Swag furniture collection on curvy steel legs. The group's favored status with VanderKooi may have hastened its return to the market, but a reissue can mostly be credited to how easy it was to update the pieces for modern use: A grommet through which cords can be threaded was embedded in the corner of each desk, and the chair was cast in environmentally friendly polypropylene... (BusinessWeek)
PPR Press Release - 2007 Q2 Sales Jul 26, 2007
Bottega Veneta also launched a second small furniture collection in the quarter as a result of the favourable response to the first collection launched in 2006. Bottega Veneta extended its store network last quarter with eight new store openings, including a large flagship store in Tokyo Ginza and its second store in China. (PR Newswire)
Princess Di's former butler bringing royal flair to Homearama Jul 20, 2007
Paul Burrell, a former personal assistant to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and butler to Princess Diana, will debut his furniture collection this weekend at Homearama. On Saturday, July 21, and Sunday, July 22, Burrell will give tours of Home No. 5, which features his "Royal Manner" furnishings, according to a news release. (Louisville Business First, KY)
Online Nursery Furniture Retailer SimplyBabyFurniture.com Celebrates New Site Features for Improved Customer Experience with a 5% Off 'Store Wide& Jul 1, 2007
Expectant mothers and grandparents alike can browse baby cribs and their related nursery sets on the site or call in to have a specific, cross-brand furniture collection bundled just for them. Bryan Watson, the company's CEO commented on the site's new features, "As parents ourselves, we understand the difficulty in shopping for baby furniture online. We have put together what we feel is an easy and intuitive way to buy your dream nursery. If you want to put together a collection of furniture... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
'Celebrating 70' Exhibit to commemorate local artist Bob Timberlake's career Jun 8, 2007
The exhibit will also feature highlights from Timberlake's career in the home furnishings industry, which began in 1990 with the launch of "The World of Bob Timberlake," his licensed furniture collection then made by Furniture Industries. With the founding of Bob Timberlake Inc., the artist's licensed product line has grown to also include apparel, home furnishings accessories, home plans, gifts and collectibles. (Foster's Daily Democrat)
'NC SPIN' to feature Timberlake Sunday Jun 7, 2007
NC SPIN' to feature Timberlake Sunday - The Lexington Dispatch (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Tagged, these chairs are it May 25, 2007
Homer's booth, which features pieces from his latest furniture collection, looks like it has been vandalized. A vintage dining room set and matching highboy is sprayed with pink, yellow, and aquamarine graffiti on every surface. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Saving past from the present a full-time job for David Baber May 14, 2007
"For years, the furniture collection was stored in the basement of the courthouse, which floods a lot. Then, just before I came, they moved everything to the second floor of the (South County) office building, which didn't have any air conditioning. So you had all this wet ... stuff ... sitting in the heat ..."Our successes are. incremental," says Baber, like all preservationists a devotee of the glass-half-full school."We're making progress. (Herald-Tribune)
Gambling on an appreciation of satire Apr 11, 2007
When officers entered the fashionable Roswell home, decorated in a Victorian motif, with a very smart Exquisite Angelic Innocence Sculpture, they immediately noticed a bar setup including an attractive Serving Cart from the Carved Furniture Collection that demonstrates true pride in fine craftsmanship and attention to detail. Several women were serving drinks to a number of gambling tables and members of Cirque Du Soleil were doing back flips in the kitchen. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
The minimalist touch Mar 8, 2007
The minimal surroundings are also ideal for Boyer's furniture collection. He has a pair of Konstantin Grcic's Chair One stacking chairs, an Eames plywood lounger, and a Case Study day bed that can accommodate guests. (Boston Globe -- Living)
AROUND THE HOUSE By Susan Fornoff Mar 4, 2007
San Francisco's esteemed McGuire has added the Danish Cord Series, a sculpted rattan furniture collection mixing a contemporary look with Danish Modern. Designer Glyn Peter Machin, an English-trained furniture maker now living in Denmark, drew inspiration from Scandinavian midcentury design as well as the rugged coastline for the seven pieces, which include the Slipper Chair and Slipper Ottoman, shown. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Longtime city service station gets boost Mar 3, 2007
"Others with legal business call the station daily, mistaking its phone book listing for that of the courthouse. Eventually, when people asked if a relative would be getting out of jail that day, Swing started saying no, that the inmate would have to stay through Monday.He and Michael had front-row seats as law enforcement officers occasionally chased fleeing court defendants across the street and the station lot.The station has been a hangout for colorful "characters" - people like Jake Byerly,... (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Design notes Mar 2, 2007
Bernhardt Furniture - the company that teamed with Martha Stewart to create a furniture collection bearing her name - is working on a new collaboration. This time, it's the Smithsonian Institution. (Buffalo News -- Arts)
Spoils of the royals Dec 30, 2006
And then there is the world-class furniture collection and the ceramics, including some wonderful Sevres. Frankly, if this lot was publicly owned, then there would really be a national art collection. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
MAKEOVER SHOW LEAD DESIGNER KIM BANDY LEWIS CHANGES LIVES Dec 28, 2006
By: STEPHANIE JETER, Staff Writer 12/27/2006. BIG JOB: This South Dakota home, made over for the Thibodeau family, was Kim Lewis first for which she served as the lead design producer. (Tyler Morning Telegraph, TX)
Dock your electronics in high-tech furniture Dec 28, 2006
"I install so many docking stations, I feel like I'm on `Star Trek,' " says designer Candice Olson of the HGTV cable channel, who was showing her furniture collection at High Point ... From the Martha Stewart Signature furniture collection with Bernhardt, the new scarlet-red, Asian-inspired Kingsland secretary doesn't look like a media center, but behind the doors (hand-painted with gold cherry blossoms) can sit a plasma TV or laptop. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
More of this story Nov 25, 2006
They found tall bookcases and an office space hidden in a corner, leaving plenty of wall space for antique paintings and their furniture collection. For the tour, the Salter s home will be dressed in a contemporary slant, arranged as if the couple were about to host an elegant Christmas cocktail party. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
More confusion than fusion at PEM Nov 19, 2006
They invited 22 fine furniture makers from the United States, Canada, and China to convene in Salem to trade ideas and study the museum's antique Chinese furniture collection. And they commissioned each craftsman to create a piece of furniture in response to the experience. (Boston Globe -- Living)
The best of the show Nov 11, 2006
The star power may have been lacking at the fall High Point Market (formerly the International Home Furnishings Market) last month, with Martha Stewart conspicuously absent for the launch of her new furniture collection with Bernhardt ... Metropolitan Home Collection What's new: Metropolitan Home magazine teamed up with contemporary designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and manufacturer Shermag to debut its first furniture collection. (Buffalo News -- Arts)
Mt. Pleasant/Maury Phosphate Museum looks to 15th anniversary Nov 7, 2006
Other permanent displays include old toys, a hand-carved doll furniture collection and a collection of dolls from all over the world. The basement showcases items such as old kitchen tools, farm equipment, horse harness and even a still. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
On the horizon — New furniture designs due out next spring Nov 6, 2006
By Tran Ha Chicago Tribune HIGH POINT, N.C. The star power may have been lacking at the fall High Point Market (formerly the International Home Furnishings Market) recently, with Martha Stewart conspicuously absent for the launch of her new furniture collection with Bernhardt ... What's new: Metropolitan Home magazine teamed up with contemporary designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and manufacturer Shermag to debut its first furniture collection. (Deseret News)
Little kids, little rooms, big business Oct 28, 2006
HIGH POINT - When she talks about the new furniture collection for kids, Maxine Clark acts like an excited 9-year-old. She scoots up onto a bunk bed, gets on her knees to pull out a deep toy drawer, almost giggles when she lifts a shelf to expose a secret hiding place. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Command centers designed for the 21st century Oct 26, 2006
"I install so many docking stations, I feel like I'm on 'Star Trek,' " says designer Candice Olson of the HGTV cable channel, who was showing her furniture collection at High Point ... From the Martha Stewart Signature furniture collection with Bernhardt, the new scarlet red, Asian-inspired Kingsland secretary doesn't look like a media center, but behind the doors (hand painted with gold cherry blossoms) can sit a plasma TV or laptop. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Fendi Casa, Luminaire to increase space Oct 13, 2006
The new space is to be completed by November 2007, coinciding with the launch of an new indoor/outdoor furniture collection. Luminaire is to double its area to 7,500 square feet in January. (South Florida Business Journal, FL)
Rachael Ray does daytime Sep 14, 2006
She has a line of knives from Furi and cookware from Anolon (which "I literally designed on a napkin") and even a furniture collection from Laneventure. This fall she comes out with her 16th cookbook, 2, 4, 6, 8: Great Meals for Couples or Crowds. (USA Today -- Life)
Something completely different Aug 4, 2006
And speaking of functionality: Carlo Rossi's jug wines may have inspired many a vision over the decades, but none as whimsical as the Carlo Rossi Jug Simple Furniture Collection. The Modesto, Calif. (USA Today -- Life)
Bernard Ostry `a great asset to Ontario' May 25, 2006
High Style: The Ostry Collection at the ROM was published last fall to catalogue the rich art deco and art nouveau furniture collection Ostry and his wife Sylvia donated to the museum. "The Ostry collection was really what justified us being able to create an all-new gallery on 20th-century design," ROM director William Thorsell said yesterday of a space to open next year. (Toronto Star)
Buried treasure Apr 20, 2006
And then, of course, there is the world-class furniture collection, and the ceramics, including some wonderful S;vres. Frankly, if we had ever had a proper revolution in this country, and this lot was publicly owned, then we would really have ourselves a national art collection. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Spills, pet hair? No problem -- if it's a Ruggiero Feb 23, 2006
One of the main ways he has achieved comfort is with his Norwalk upholstered furniture collection, which includes 110 choices of Sunbrella fabrics as well as traditional fabrics. Originally designed for outdoor use, Sunbrella is one of the performance fabrics that are fade-proof, stain-resistant and water-repellent. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
