Solid Teak Conservatory Garden Park Bench
Solid TEAK Conservatory Garden Park Bench Review: This is the 5.5 foot bench manufactured. All Things Cedar in Canada. First bench arrived broken with rusty screws. sticking out of it and I refused it and had UPS return it to the seller. The fault was clearly NOT with UPS as the bench was poorly packaged [...]
Corbusier’S Furniture Designs To Shine In Chandigarh Once Again
Chandigarh, Sep 10 (IANS) In dusty corners of government offices in Chandigarh, officials are now searching for furniture designed by famed architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in the 1950s and restoring what they can find to be part of the city’s cultural heritage.”The Chandigarh administration will constitute a special team that will visit all [...]
Designs to save the world
Sustainable design is a philosophy that seeks to cause as little damage as possible to the environment. It requires the use of products that minimize the use of nonrenewable resources. Because of the growing worldwide concern over the destruction of the environment, sustainable design is also a way of saving the world.
So for their entries [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vantage Corner Desk
Vantage Corner Desk Reviews: I hate this about a lot of pressed board furniture: the pre-drilled holes are not in the right place and the drawers and doors are all crooked when you’re finished. It looks sloppy. The door is the only straight piece on this because it can be adjusted with the hinges.
The keyboard [...]
Tan Adult Urban Suede Beanbag By Elite Furniture
Tan Adult Urban Suede Beanbag By Elite Furniture Reviews: This is a very nice bean bag chair. If you are a large adult, I would get a bigger chair. They do sell them. I am 5′7″ and weigh 123 lbs. This is a good size for me. My husband looks very uncomfortable on this. He [...]
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 [...]
Strathwood Sanibel Cast Aluminum Balcony Table
Strathwood Sanibel Cast Aluminum Balcony Table Reviews: I ordered this product ignoring some of the poor reviews because I wanted a table to match the chairs I ordered. Some people have complained the table was hard to put together, that may be because they are not used to putting together furniture.
I would say the table [...]