Furniture News
Charity furniture is torched by vandals
A GROUP of unemployed people who built wooden furniture to sell for charity have seen their efforts go up in smoke after vandals torched their work.
The group, who take part in a back-to-work scheme in Oxgangs, were devastated to find that the garden benches, planters and bird boxes they had been making for three weeks [...]
Furniture up your street
Walking on Mumbai’s crowded streets may become an altogether better experience some time next year. You will still keep on bumping into people but you will bump into a few other things as well, like newspaper stands at street corners or information kiosks.
The BMC has already shortlisted seven international firms to carry out a survey [...]
Ohio-based Norwalk Furniture halts operations
A developer says he’s backing out of a deal that might save a troubled northern Ohio furniture company, leaving the future of the company and hundreds of employees up in the air.
Norwalk Furniture, based in Norwalk in northern Ohio, halted operations this week and idled 500 employees in Ohio and 300 in a Fulton, Miss. [...]
Arboretum to display furniture from fallen ash trees
Our first house was a cute little 1920s English cottage, complete with slate roof, copper gutters and a glorious old elm tree. That was about it in the way of a garden. The tiny lawn could support just this wonderful old elm tree that had somehow survived the ravages of Dutch elm disease in the [...]
Port City furniture store aims for hip image
Taken from the 1960s, it means hip, cool and fun. Store owner Deb Orlando saw a ’60s movie and got the name from a dictionary of slang.
“This store is just ‘phly,’” said Orlando. “It’s modern and retro, and very mid-century, with a little bit of art deco thrown in.”
Her background is varied, having been a [...]
Traditionally crafted furniture from John Droste
Furniture maker John Droste makes traditionally crafted furniture. The quality of his furniture, be it a classic or contemporary style, ensures long life, making it a sound investment. The years of experience gained by John Droste enable him to reproduce or replicate any piece of antique furniture by copying the original. He can also offer [...]
Omro business donates school furniture to Tanzania
An Omro school furniture maker is donating chairs, table frames and tabletops to a school in Tanzania.
Ken Korsch, owner of National School Lines in Omro, says the donations’ value is about $25,000.
He’s giving 122 chairs, 12 table frames and nine tabletops to the Salvatorian Mission in New Holstein for distribution to a school in Tanzania.
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Gabberts being sold to HOM Furniture
Eighteen months after remodeling and downsizing its flagship Edina store, Gabberts Design Studio & Fine Furnishings has agreed to be sold to HOM Furniture in a transaction expected to be completed today.
Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Coon Rapids-based HOM said it will continue to operate the Edina store under the Gabberts name and [...]
Designer creates ‘art furniture’
David Grosz of Stamford said he wanted to be an architect, but along the way his career path took a turn to wood.
“I actually had to make things. The drawing wasn’t enough,” Grosz said, and instead of designing buildings, he turned to designing and creating what he refers to as “art furniture.”
Grosz, who has spent [...]
Charles Rohlfs’s Theatrical Furniture to Go on the Road
For a few years around 1900 journalists made pilgrimages to a barely marked furniture workshop in an attic over a bicycle factory in Buffalo. The workshop’s owner, a charismatic former actor named Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936), feigned some modesty in his dusty garret. But then he convinced the visiting reporters that his “artistic furniture” had no [...]