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Spencer Fung, a London architect, has given something new to outdoor furniture: stark, bold pieces that with proper care (sanding the surface and refinishing it with tung oil twice a […]

When a truck driver gets a new truck in India, 'the first thing he does is have someone paint symbols on it to ward off evil spirits on the road,' […]

Lisbeth Rasmussen abandoned acting to open Lisbeth & Company downtown, specializing in American and European design of the 1920's to the 1940's. Classics from her native Denmark include Kaare Klint's […]

Sam Botero, a Manhattan interior designer, near left, had always wanted to open a shop. Baroness Jeanne-Marie Fribourg, center, had too much French furniture, mostly antiques, to fit into her […]

'The sleeper sofa is usually an ugly sofa with an uncomfortable bed inside,' said Massimo Iosa Ghini, an architect and furniture designer in Bologna, Italy. 'Single,' as he calls his […]

Billy Baldwin favored slipper chairs -- low-legged, armless up-holstered chairs -- because they were less bulky than armchairs. A descendant is the Zondra chair, a slipper chair on wheels designed […]

AFTER 1,000 years of history as a decorative accessory, the screen is entering a new age of architectural innovation. Once made of simple paper or embroidered tapestry, tooled leather or […]

WHEN in Nepal, Erich Theophile, an American architect, does as the Nepalese do. He abandons most Western amenities (except a drafting table, dining table, some chairs and a flush toilet) […]

THIS is not the year for earth tones at the eighth International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which opens Saturday at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Bold reds, blues and yellows […]

DO you have any used sofas or dressers that you want to find a new home for? If so, the Partnership for the Homeless is playing your song. The group […]

REMEMBER Danish Modern, the design movement of the 1950's? Don't blanch, but blond is back. From the 50's through the early 60's, Americans with any pretensions to chic sat on […]

WHEN Helene Verin, a designer of furniture, wallpaper, rugs and shoes, bought her small studio apartment in Greenwich Village last fall, she wanted it to be two things: a pied-a-terre […]

Teen-agers wearing cow and bull costumes were standing on street corners passing out leaflets on the glories of leather furniture. They were joined by a man wearing a fabric-covered sandwich […]

PARISH-HADLEY, the New York interior design firm of choice for Astors, Rockefellers and Whitneys, is introducing adaptations of their collection of antiques from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Soon, […]

MANHATTAN divides itself again and again into idiosyncratic enclaves. The West 20's are noted for flowers, the West 30's for buttons and fabric, the West 40's for jewelry. And SoHo? […]

FROM the legs of beds has sprung a cottage industry. Since 1982, Bo van den Assum (far left), a lawyer, has vacationed on Lamu, an island off the coast of […]

CRAIG NUTT, an artist from Northport, Ala., makes tables and chairs with legs in the shapes of asparagus, chili peppers or ears of corn. Carl Tese, who lives in Arlington, […]

CAN a vase, a chair or a table be art? 'Art and Application,' a show of 50 objects, two by each of 25 artists, explores that question. The exhibition runs […]

JOLIE KELTER and Michael Malce, Manhattan antique dealers, are a walking, talking encyclopedia of 19th- and 20th-century decorative arts. For almost two decades the pair sold quilts, folk art, garden […]

HARD ROCKER is a rocking chair in the shape of an electric guitar -- a fender, actually -- made by Stephen Perrin, a furniture designer in Timonium, Md., known for […]

MICHAEL WARD collects Arts and Crafts furniture and pottery. George Fontanals makes Arts and Crafts-style furniture. When they met two and a half years ago, guess what they talked about? […]

TABLES made of newspapers or with feathered legs are among 17 objects in 'Furniture of the 90's' at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 584 Broadway, near Prince Street in Manhattan. The […]

VISITORS to the American Craft Museum in Manhattan are encouraged to sit on the furniture on display in the lobby, a rare gesture in the world of museum shows. 'Sitting […]

Foldaway beds are not customarily as chic as the one designed by Clements Rameckers and Arnold Van Geuns for their new Warrior collection. It includes 12 pieces of collapsible furniture […]

IF there is such a thing as a lovable piece of furniture, the Hoosier cabinet is it. The cabinets take their name from the Hoosier Manufacturing Company in New Castle, […]

LEAD: A chair that looks like a spinal column, a three-layered mirror and a sofa with an attached chaise are three of the 12 offbeat objects on view through Oct. […]

LEAD: TO the design lexicons of American country, English country and French country, consider adding Spanish country furniture, which is among the objects featured in 'Spain: Europe's Rising Star,' the […]

Highlights the Doll chair and slipcovers designed by Dutch industrial designer, Tord Boontje.

Focuses on the Mondo Cane, a shop which sells mid-20th-century modern furniture located at TriBeCa in New York City. Design of the store; Contact information.

AS the days grow sultry, even with air-conditioning, rooms that looked warm and cozy in winter can seem oppressive. Thick rugs, dark colors and plush upholstery feel hot and stuffy. [...]

LEAD: FIFTEEN years ago, when the painter Gerard Rigot bought a farmhouse in Toulouse, France, he began to make furniture. Inspired by his cat and using native oak and pine, […]

LEAD: EVEN as Susan Turner, above left, and Leslie Madden worked in advertising and publishing, respectively, they always wanted to own a home furnishings shop. In April, the two longtime […]

LEAD: A MONTH ago Jack Carlson, at left above, and Josef Schreick, on sofa, opened Home, James, a furniture and accessories store in East Hampton, L.I. Since Mr. Carlson is […]

'In the past several years I've notices that artists and sculptors, who normally do not design furniture or anything functional, have turned to making objects for the home as an […]

THOUGH most people live with a smattering of furniture from different eras - an 80's camelback sofa mixed with 60's directors' chairs and an 1890's grandfather clock, for example - […]

LEAD: WHEN the shoppers began to disappear from Broome Street and headed north to Prince Street, Peri Wolfman, co-owner of Wolfman Gold & Good, a housewares store, went with them. […]

LEAD: MOST people buy rustic hickory furniture from stores. A few commission it from craftsmen. In Indiana you can also buy hickory-and-rattan chairs, beds and old-fashioned swings at a prison, […]

LEAD: MATTIA BONETTI and Elizabeth Garouste, a Paris-based design team, believe in contradictions. In their new collection of tables, chairs and lamps, which is being shown at Furniture of the […]

LEAD: TO Jamie Brant, the most undistinguished furniture can be turned into colorful, functional art by careful repair and a refined use of paint. TO Jamie Brant, the most undistinguished […]

LEAD: 'I DO not personally see my work as having moved from the harder concept to a softer feel,' said Rei Kawakubo, the Tokyo-based fashion and furniture designer. But her […]

LEAD: FOR admirers of Biedermeier furniture, the neo-classical style that flourished in Austria and Germany from 1815 to 1830, the choices are few: scarce and expensive antique pieces and now, […]

LEAD: BRANCHING out from home accessories like bed linens, paisley throws and boxes, Patrick Frey has designed a collection of collapsible garden furniture. BRANCHING out from home accessories like bed […]

LEAD: SOME Wild West images never die: hand-hewed log cabins and sturdy log furniture can still be found. J. Mike Patrick, a 37-year-old former rancher who lives in Cody, Wyo., […]

LEAD: FOR the summer garden or patio, the furniture of choice by both architects and retailers is reproductions of metal garden furniture whose designs were first created in the 18th […]

LEAD: WHAT has been lacking in outdoor furniture design is an easy chair, and now Larry Zellner has filled that gap. WHAT has been lacking in outdoor furniture design is […]

LEAD: GERD VERSCHOOR is a furniture designer whose medium is nature. One of his chairs has an antique upholstered seat and a six-foot back of newly cut birch branches. GERD […]

LEAD: IN the 50's, people bought suites of furniture for the bedroom. In the 60's, the brave slept on water beds, and in the 70's the avant-garde chose platform beds […]

The article offers brief information on the 1977 staircases piece by furniture designer Wendell Castle.

The article reports on the move of Alexandra Cunningham, director of exhibitions at the Design Miami furniture fairs in Florida and Switzerland, to create a color scheme on her apartment in East Village, New York City. It says that the kitchen features bright blue walls and gray stripes from the center of the ceiling and run down to the tops of the cabinets. Meanwhilea, the living rome features a ceiling that is apportioned into three wide stripes, painted in two-to-one black-to-gray ratio.