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What customers want, customers sometimes get. Saks Fifth Avenue closed its home furnishings department in 1990. Customers grumbled that they needed to buy gifts; now furnishings are back. This month, […]

TOTO, it feels as if we're not in SoHo anymore. Peri Wolfman, the partisan of the all-white plate, is frantically buying cream and khaki-colored pottery for her store, the Wolfman […]

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 […]

THE walls are hot pink, the shelves and counters orange, and the prices low. Dom, a store devoted to home furnishings and clothes, which opened in SoHo on Halloween, is […]

Highlights the hand-painted glass bowls designed by Kumiko Hayashi which are included in the housewares sold at the Cornelia Day Resort boutique.

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.

Reports that the Providence Antiques store in Atlanta, Georgia, is selling a line of more than 300 reproduction French furnishings. Examples of objects on sale; Prices; Other merchandise offered by the store; Contact information.

Features Omar Rahim, an American born in Karachi, Pakistan, who is using silk organza sourced from his native country to create shower curtains and cushions. Dimensions of Rahim's shower curtains and cushions; Prices; Contact information.

LEAD: ON June 4 the Muriel Karasik gallery is opening an exhibition of sports memorabilia in the form of home furnishings, accessories and jewelry. The 500 pieces, which Tk. Karasik […]

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 […]

BECAUSE Los Angeles is such a vast, sprawling city, it is also secretive. Neighborhods differentiate themselves only upon close inspection. Facades of shops can barely be glimpsed through the windows […]

LEAD: ARTS and Crafts home furnishings - the austere oak furniture by Gustav Stickley, for example, or the hammered copper pots and lamps of Dirk Van Erp - can now […]

The article focuses on the interior design of a 2,000 square-foot apartment based in TriBeCa, New York City designed by James Ramsey and Jennifer Blumin.

The article offers brief information on the Folkthread furniture from Anthropologie Inc.

The article looks at the urban dweller designed by Chris Cooper and Jennifer Hanlin, which features the living area, the kitchen ceiling and the master bedroom in Brooklyn, New York City.

The article focuses on the renovation of the Inn at Little Washington, a clutch of historic buildings in Washington, Virginia.

Wavelength I, one of 11 new rugs from Edward Fields Carpet Makers based on designs from its archives, is an update of a pattern created in the 1970s. ''It was part of a category of free-form designs -- strong colors and big-scale motifs,'' said Yasmina Kossmann, the design director. ''They were done in wool, a high-cut pile, like a shag. It was the era of really heavy, comfortable rugs.'' In the '70s, the rug was not just bold; it was loud and multicolored -- orange, pink, green and purple. The new version, left, is in shades of turquoise, and the pile is multilevel rather than high-cut. It is also a more luxurious wool and silk, rather than pure wool. (Now that the company is owned by Tai Ping, a Hong Kong manufacturer, Ms. Kossmann said, it is cheaper to make a rug of wool and silk than it was in the '70s, when the rugs were made in the United States and the silk was imported.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lily Latifi, an Iranian textile designer living in Paris, created her new collection of room dividers, shades and stools out of wool felt because ''it's like sculpture,'' she said. ''It's very simple and minimalistic.'' And in Iran, Ms. Latifi added, people who cannot afford a Persian carpet often have a rug of felt instead. Bubbles, a room divider with cutout shapes, above, was designed ''so it lets light in,'' she said, ''and projects shadows and light on the floors and onto the walls.'' The piece, which is shown in taupe, is also available in red, black, cream and green; a single panel, 29 inches wide and 110 inches long, is $1,300. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Yliving.com, a new Web site from the company that runs Ylighting.com, carries some 2,000 pieces of furniture and home accessories in 10 categories, including storage and organizing, seating, tableware and green living (items made from recycled or sustainable materials). It intends to target the same kind of customer as its sister site, said David Feldman, the company's president: ''Someone with a modern aesthetic'' who likes 20th-century classics like George Nelson's 1948 Sunflower Clock ($1,085), top left, or the alder wood Eames House Bird ($210), bottom left, as well as newer pieces like Herman Miller's Setu ergonomic office chair ($500). Shipping is free for purchases over $50; (800) 236-9100 or yliving.com. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To introduce his new furniture gallery in Dubai, Sheik Majed al-Sabah, the founder of Villa Moda, a group of high-end fashion shops in the Middle East, showed his first furniture collection last week at the Design Miami fair. Among the pieces on display were 19 that combined antique Syrian furniture with Crystal Virus glass vessels created by Pieke Bergmans, a designer from Amsterdam. The glass was blown directly on the furniture by artisans at Royal Leerdam Crystal in the Netherlands, a process that was long enough for the crystal to ''infect'' the furniture, Ms. Bergmans said. The hot glass, which burns the furniture and takes its shape from it, she said, ''starts having a relationship with the object.'' (The two-and-a-half-foot-tall table is $10,000.) The Al Sabah Art & Design Collection opens in Dubai in March; 011-971-4-323-0277 or alsabahcollection.com. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lighting is to the celebrity designer David Rockwell what engineering is to a pastry chef: layering. He and his architectural firm, the Rockwell Group, have created hundreds of restaurants, hotels, stage sets and homes, and in each of them the layers of light (white light for food, warmer light on the perimeter to flatter the face) are as integral to the design as the architecture and furnishings. ''When you dim a light, you change the color temperature to a warmer, pinker light,'' he explained. Brightening the light has the opposite effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cooper's Cottage Lace, a company in Amherst, Mass., recently introduced its first collection of updated Arts and Crafts-style curtains. Hunter Rose, below, one of six new designs, was adapted by Dard Hunter III from an original pattern by his grandfather, Dard Hunter, a designer who created books, furniture and pottery for Roycroft, an early 20th century Arts and Crafts community. His grandfather designed the pattern ''in 1908, for the cover of a magazine called 'The Fra,' which was published by the Roycrofters,'' Mr. Hunter said, and ''is stylized in the squared-off, geometric manner that was so popular then.'' The curtains are sold as single panels, measuring 20 to 47 inches wide and 54 to 72 inches long, and ranging in price from $49 to $179. Information: (866) 579-5223 or www.cottagelace.com. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Blu Dot, a furniture company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has opened its first store in Manhattan, New York City. The store is named Dot Spot and it is located on the forth floor of ABC Carpet & Home. Some of the pieces that are displayed in the store includes molded plywood stackable chair, and the Dobu bed.

The article offers information regarding "The Modern Show" of furniture, antiquities and house furnishings, where the designer furniture would be on sale at affordable prices. Some of the items include the beachwood scooter made by Hans Brockhage and Erwin Andrä and a Japanese ceramic vase of the 1930s. The show will be arranged at the 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Avenue.

The article reports that Aria, a home furnishings and handbag shop has opened a new store at Barnsbury Street in London, England. Its earlier shop is housed in neighborhood Islington. The new shop is spread in a four-story building and offers a mix of furniture, from chairs by designers Philippe Starck and Karim Rashid, to Victorian-style sofas and accessories like movie posters.

The article evaluates various fire screens made up of iron and glass designed by Philip Nimmo.

The article evaluates several types of furniture from the company Poltrona Frau including the liquor cabinet Isidoro and the beauty console Feluca.

The article focuses on Variegated, a house furnishings shop in Catskill, New York State. The shop sells various housewares. It is owned by textile designers Jim Deskevich and Corbett Marshall. Some of the house furnishings available in the shop include the Pinwheel linen duvet cover and matching pillowcases.

The article presents information on Carl Martinez, a designer of architectural hardware. Martinez invited his parents to stay at his house in Easton, Pennsylvania. He bought and renovated the Victorian house as a weekend house. Martinez has furnished the house with natural objects and painted it with white paint.

The article evaluates two house furnishing equipment including Four-Hole Aliacta Vase and Lined Glasses.

The article evaluates various fabrics and wallpapers including linen Coquina depicting Caribbean shells and wallpaper zebras by Scalamandre.

The article focuses on the movable furniture designed by Mike Latham. He had built a bed, a shower, a plug-in kitchen counter, a humidor for his cigar that are encased in vitrines on wheels. It allows him to move the furniture around according to his mood. His skill for moving furniture developed when he shared a loft with his friend during his college and required to create room space without adding renovations.

The article presents information on decorations and house furnishings. Product designer Lisa Smith is offering crescent-shaped bowls and platters. It is informed that architecture students at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have installed a transparent, undulating polycarbonate structure outside the school's architecture building.

This article presents information on the Agassi-Graf Kreiss furniture collection from Kreiss Enterprises.

The article features the works of mosaicist Brad Teasdale and exhibitor Douglas Fanning, which include the Twilight Plum and light staffs, respectively, to be exhibited at the fourth annual Bklyn Designs in Dumbo.

The article features affordable furniture at the home of Jim Haskin and Amy Husten in Stone Ridge, New York.

The article provides information about furniture products and house furnishings that are present in the house of Charles Rose, an architect.

Features the bed designed by Andrianna Shamaris, a clothing and furniture designer in the U.S.

Features the furniture and fixture that are installed in a kitchen which cost approximately thirty-thousand-dollar. Price of the Stanley factory maple shop table from B-4 It Was Cool Antiques; Materials used for the kitchen counter from R-S Restaurant Equipment Manufacturing; Design of the glass above the counter from Zecca Mirror Glass and Architectural Metal.

Features Everyday Rooms, a collection of furniture from Martha Stewart that is scheduled to arrive in Kmart Corp. stores on June 6, 2005.

Reports developments in the home furnishings industry in New York City.

Features the hanging chair and an aluminum shoehorn for the house furnishing industry, made available by Habitat.

Discusses how young people who are decorating their first apartments are finding bargains at flea markets and online furniture stores rather then paying full price. Need for apartments to have style while staying on a budget; Eclectic nature of interior decoration within apartments; Examples of several apartments and how they were decorated cheaply but stylishly.

Cites the availability of a set of five glass vases called Topic: Ignite Formfit from Tom Mirabile of Syratech Corp.

Reports that textile company Seacloth came to be when watercolor artist Susan Harris teamed up with Deirdre Halper, a former vice president of advertising at Coach. Seacloth home furnishings store opened in Greenwich, Connecticut; Specialty of bold stripes; Cotton and linen fabric sells for $73 a yard; Acrylic version for outdoor use is $58 a yard.

Reports on the inauguration of Johnson & Hicks, a home furnishing store owned by Lisa Weimer in New York City. Passion for house furnishing; Merchandise on display in the specialty store.

Features the furnishings and furniture used by Patrick Gallagher for the house of stage producer Tom Viertel and his partner Pat Daily in Noank, Connecticut.

Profiles graphic artist Chico Lledo and the impact of his work on the furniture in his loft apartment in SoHo, New York City. How his furniture is set on casters so as not to damage the wood floor; Suggestion that mobile furniture helps to relieve stress; Impact of a nomadic society; Arrangement of mobile furniture in small spaces; Popularity of daybeds and dynamic spaces in apartments; Manufacturers of industrial mobile furniture.

Presents issues relevant to home management in the U.S., such as a line of furniture offered by Ikea.

Presents an update on home furnishings, interior decorations and tableware as of December 20, 2001.