MIFF 2010 returns for its 16th year from 2 – 6 March in Kuala Lumpur. Taking place over three venues; the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) and MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Center (MECC), the fair is bound to attract furniture buyers who are looking for three things: quality, style and a reasonable price.
Archive for October, 2009
MIFF Opens Up a New Avenue for the ID Sector MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR?????
Friday, October 30th, 2009ICFF Competitions now open!
Friday, October 30th, 2009Though the infamous International Contemporary Furniture Fair is still months away, their open competitions have begun! As a previous winner of the Design Schools’ exhibition competition (with my team of colleagues from the School of the Art Institute), I can personally attest to the competition’s valuable experience and rigor. The ICFF Studio has partnered with Bernhardt to invite designers to submit prototypes of products in any of the ICFF exhibition categories (the winners will display their prototypes at ICFF). More info here. Secondly, the Design Schools competition asks student teams to submit a concept for a booth space at ICFF. More details here and get your submissions ready! Deadline is January 15, 2010.
Source : www.interiordesign.net
Truckloads of Blixseth’s furniture to be auctioned
Friday, October 30th, 2009BOZEMAN, Mont. — Truckloads of opulent furniture, including a two-seated throne meant to grace a 53,000-square-foot home that Yellowstone Club founder Tim Blixseth never built, will be on the auction block in Georgia next month.
Yellowstone Club Furniture Auction To Be Held
Thursday, October 29th, 2009The incredible two-seated throne above has had a long history. The black walnut furniture with pierce-carved armrests formed from integrated winged lions was once installed in a castle in Bavaria. Later they were in a mansion overlooking Chesapeake Bay. And finally they were destined for what would have been the most expensive home in the United States, the Pinnacle, a home to be built in the Yellowstone Club in Montana. Yellowstone Club founder Tim Blixseth planned to put this in the 53,000-square-foot home spec house that was never built.
Pilgrims Progress Presents Few Tips for Antique Furniture Care
Monday, October 26th, 2009UNITED STATES, Suite – 2009-10-24 – Pilgrims Progress believes antique furniture is very valuable and needs special care. It stores in it the memories of the past like your grandfather’s cradle or your grandmother’s beetle nuts box. However over a period of time these wither and become less useful. Environmental and biological conditions lead to the deterioration of the antique furniture.
Much fuss over street furniture
Monday, October 26th, 2009Close to our office in Prinsep Street, where the Indian Football Association is located, is a rag-and-bones shop. It is heaped with used newspapers and sundry other magazines and miniature mountains of scrap and loose sheets of paper. Inside, bare-bodied men — some ancient, some able-bodied — in lungis weigh paper on scales. Outside the entrance of this tiny single-room establishment is an ancient cast iron contraption. Quite often, it almost disappears under the paper heaps that spill over on the narrow road itself.
Blixseth furniture to be auctioned in Atlanta
Monday, October 26th, 2009
There’s no saying where towering gothic thrones made of carved black walnut were planned to go in “The Pinnacle,” the spec home at the Yellowstone Club promised to be the most expensive in the world when it hit the market.
Furniture For The Cure
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Undated — October is Breast Cancer
Awareness month, and even furniture makers are getting in on the battle against cancer.
Tarrant to auction off furniture, other items seized from store
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009FORT WORTH — Dozens of pieces of furniture, lamps, rugs and an assortment of other items seized from a furniture store for unpaid taxes will be auctioned Wednesday downtown.
Recliner sales a bright spot in furniture industry
Monday, October 19th, 2009By EMERY P. DALESIO (AP)
RALEIGH, N.C. — Ah, the recliner. The American invention that linked lazing in the living room to television and frozen dinners is one of the few bright spots in a well-worn U.S. household furniture industry.