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Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami A woman puts her desk lamp outside on the curb. As the lamp gets drenched, a new lamp can be seen in the woman's apartment, [...]

Remember such attention-catching in-store displays as Selfridges' live-in live Microflat experiment and Levi's virtual man window? Well add another ground-breaking innovation to that list: Kingdom of Leather's oversized sofa. Yes, [...]

These two holiday-season spots for Ikea were directed by Wes Anderson, the colorful boy-genius director of the Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore, and if anyone has an affinity for coaxing great [...]

Ikea is entering the second phase of its year-long 'Unboring' marketing campaign with a series of TV ads to begin airing nationally on Nov. 18. The new ads, directed by [...]

CORTE MADERA, CALIF--Restoration Hardware touts its holiday wares and services with a one-hour, nationally syndicated TV show, Restoration Home for the Holidays, the retailer's first-ever infomercial-type effort. The show debuted [...]

LOS ANGELES--Pier 1 Imports is set to launch a holiday campaign aimed at prying consumers away from the shopping malls and into its 900 stores. The effort, created jointly by [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Pier 1 Imports is set to launch a holiday campaign aimed at prying consumers away from the shopping malls and into its 900 stores. The effort, created [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Pier 1 Imports is set to launch a holiday campaign aimed at prying consumers away from the shopping malls and into its 900 stores. The effort, created [...]

LOS ANGELES--Pier 1 Imports is set to launch a holiday campaign aimed at prying consumers away from the shopping malls and into its 900 stores. The effort, created jointly by [...]

Sidney Popkin, owner of Boomtown Furniture, did what Jacksonville city officials wanted. He got rid of a sign painted on his store that violated a local ordinance. But he did [...]

ATLANTA -- Crispin Porter + Bogusky's first campaign for Ikea breaks this week. The Miami shop's $40 million television, print, outdoor and point-of-purchase effort kicks off with a national broadcast [...]

The CBK Group launched a new print campaign for Spencer Savings Bank. The Paramus-based advertising and public relations agency won the account in February, following a review that included six [...]

BOSTON--Iken breaks a European campaign this month featuring a child with 'two gay daddies,' according to Scott Goodson, creative director and partner of Amsterdam agency Strawberry Frog. The potentially controversial [...]

High-end London furniture store De La Espada (with showrooms in Amsterdam and in New York) creates its own print advertising, and achieved this evocative look with the loan of an [...]

ATLANTA--'Furniture as fashion' sums up the strategy that delivered Ikea's North American account to Crispin Porter + Bogusky. 'Cars are fashion, clothes are fashion, kitchen appliances are now fashion,' said [...]

I guess Urban Home won't be furnishing PETA headquarters. By itself, the ad's visual joke would be funny but pointless. What makes it effective in defining the Urban Home brand [...]

ATLANTA--Crispin Porter + Bogusky is a finalist in the review for Ikea's $50-60 million account. The Miami shop joins co-finalists Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco and Berlin Cameron/Red [...]

CHICAGO--The three finalists competing for Ikea's $30.41 million advertising account will be briefed on their assignment later this month, with a decision due in mid-February, sources said. Goodby, Silver-stein & [...]

BOSTON--lkea last week named Berlin Cameron/Red Cell, New York, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami, and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, as finalists in the review for its $3040 million [...]

ATLANTA--Crispin Porter + Bogusky is a finalist in the review for Ikea's $50-60 million account. The Miami shop joins co-finalists Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco and Berlin Cameron/Red [...]

CHICAGO--Ikea's new agency must be compatible with the client's 'nonhierarchical, unconventional, simple and cost-conscious' culture, according to an RFP sent to about 20 agencies last week. Cost issues may be [...]

CHICAGO--Ikea's new agency must be compatible with the 'nonhierarchical, unconventional, simple and cost-conscious' culture of the client, according to sources who received a proposal request sent to about 20 agencies [...]

Ikea UK is offering to help consumers 'win' Christmas with an irreverent campaign created by St Luke's. This will be one of the last campaigns created by St Luke's following [...]

CHICAGO--Contenders for Ikea's $30-40 million ad account are likely to face a three-month, labor-intensive process that will include detailed creative assignments, sources said. Ikea and Minneapolis shop Carmichael Lynch agreed [...]

CHICAGO--Contenders for Ikea's $30-40 million ad account are likely to face a three-month, labor-intensive process that will include detailed creative assignments, sources said. Ikea and Minneapolis shop Carmichael Lynch agreed [...]

CHICAGO--Contenders for Ikea's $30-40 million ad account are likely to face a three-month, labor-intensive process that will include detailed creative assignments, sources said. Ikea and Minneapolis shop Carmichael Lynch agreed [...]

CHICAGO--Contenders for Ikea's $30-40 million ad account are likely to face a three-month, labor-intensive process that will include detailed creative assignments, sources said. Ikea and Minneapolis shop Carmichael Lynch agreed [...]

CHICAGO--Contenders for Ikea's $30-40 million ad account are likely to face a three-month, labor-intensive process that will include detailed creative assignments, sources said. Ikea and Minneapolis shop Carmichael Lynch agreed [...]

Furniture retailer and manufacturer MFl (www.mfi.co.uk) is running a five-figure online ad campaign on femail.co.uk, the women's site produced by Associated New Media. The campaign will run for four weeks [...]

St Luke's has lost its 8 million £ Ikea UK account, following the advertiser's decision to take the above-the-line work in-house. Ikea UK confirmed that it is parting company with [...]

* Halcyon Founder Smith Dies at 53 DALLAS--Former Halcyon Associates president and founder Dwight Smith died last week of a heart attack at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, according [...]

DALLAS--Breuners Home Furnishing Corp. in Lancaster, Pa., consolidated its $20 million creative and media account at Fogarty Klein & Partners, Houston, following a review of undisclosed shops It operates five [...]

Deutsch's campaign supporting the reopening of Ikea's flagship store in Elizabeth, N.J., had all the elements of a packaged goods ad from the 1950s: bright colors, corny music, overstated claims. [...]

Deutsch * IKEA Tapping into the emotions connected with small domestic disasters to drive people to IKEA. 'Americans aren't shopping for furniture the way they used to.' That was troubling [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.--The Furniture Dealers Association (FDA) has launched a co-op advertising campaign aimed at combating the North Carolina discounters. According to association president and retailer John Cipolla, the group [...]

Arbek Furniture Mfg. is offering dealers more advertising support with a series of television commercials. The 30-second spots, which will be introduced to dealers at the San Francisco Market, are [...]

CHICACO--Levitz Furniture in Boca Raton, Fla., said it will reveal this week plans for its estimated $25 million broadcast account following the closing of incumbent agency David Cravit & Associates [...]

WILMINGTON, Del. -- La-Z-Boy Inc. and Sears HomeLife Stores have joined Haven, the nationally syndicated television program as 'super sponsors,' according to Bob Nightengale, president of the Home Furnishings Council [...]

MILAN--Pirella Gottsche Lowe here won the ad account to introduce Habitat, the furniture chain, to Italian consumers. A print and outdoor campaign is expected to start in March. The agency [...]

NEW YORK--Furniture retailers invested more than $200 million in local TV advertising during the first six months of 1995, according to Harold Simpson, vice president of Research for the Television [...]

(broadcast) Billings: $8 million Incumbent: None Awarded to: Goldberg Moser O'Neill, San Francisco. Hubbel & Associates, San Francisco., will continue to handle newspaper [...]

LEVITZ FURNITURE Advertiser: Levitz Agency: Paragon Media Begins: Undisclosed Budget: $40-plus million Media: Broadcast Having settled on an outside creative agency (Gold Coast, Miami), Levitz will double its broadcast budget. [...]

Beckerman & Associates, Bernardsville, has acquired three new clients--AT&T Capital Corp., Grubb & Ellis New Jersey and Schwartz Furniture---totaling more than $1 million in [...]

PARIS--Audour Soum Larue won the creative portion of the $20-million ad account for Fly, the French children's furniture chain. J. Walter Thompson, Colorado and Dufresne et Corrigan also pitched the [...]