Indonesia Furniture Directory

Zahid Sardar

Plywood, a strong, low-cost board composed of glued-together, crisscrossed strips of waste wood, rose in popularity after World War II and became a building staple. Midcentury furniture designers Ray and Charles Eames began to experiment with this humble material, steaming and bending it the same way craftsmen did real wood, to make enduring, curvaceous furniture.

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BY LU ANN FRANKLIN -Times Correspondent

Indigenous to the Indiana Dunes, the prickly pear is a member of the cactus family.

It’s also the name of a company run by two artisan entrepreneurs who have a passion for creating fine art furniture from trees harvested from urban forests and wood salvaged from old buildings or discarded furniture.

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By Carey

Thousands of St. Louis furniture buyers are clamoring for the free $25 grocery gift cards they were promised in exchange for buying more than $500 worth of furniture and then spending more than $100 per month at a grocery store. The complicated if not weird promotion was managed by BBZ Resource Management, an Arizona-based company that doesn’t seem to have any intention of sending out the promised gift cards.

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By Lynn Zerschling |

SIOUX CITY — City Councilman Brent Hoffman said landlords and neighborhood representatives convinced him there is a need for the city to regulate the types of furniture people keep outside.

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The Associated Press

FREEHOLD, N.J. – The owner of a New Jersey furniture business has been sentenced to five years in state prison for scamming customers out of nearly $300,000 by failing to deliver merchandise they ordered.

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Big news for bakers. Nestle has recalled Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products because 65 people who ate raw dough reporting getting sick. OK, admit it, you do eat raw dough. You can always lick the bowl when you make brownies, though we know the health experts will tell us not to do it. Anyway, we have the list of recalled products online with the article.

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Ready to jump into the furniture rehab game? The experts share additional tips:

- Decide whether you want to distress a new piece for a vintage look, or paint an older piece to give it new life.

John Gidding, of “HGTV’s $250,000 Challenge,” suggests updating old furniture in new ways: For one chair, he painted the legs gunmetal gray and the rest of the chair black.

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By Karla Klein Albertson

Inquirer Antiques Columnist
Today in New York, Sotheby’s will offer for sale the gleaming and sinuous Tuyomyo bench by Frank Gehry, the most important design for interior space ever created by the famous architect. The bench was fabricated at Emeco in Hanover, Pa., perhaps the only firm capable of executing Gehry’s vision in aluminum.

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A certain low-cost, high-gloss material was all the rage at this year’s Milan furniture fair. Plastic’s back, and hotter than ever.

By David A. Keeps |Tribune Newspapers

June 12, 2009

MILAN, ITALY – At a time when sustainably sourced, solid wood furniture can be punishingly expensive and the price of metal is soaring, designers and manufacturers at April’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the world’s most important contemporary design show, were embracing something new. Namely, plastic.

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