The 17th International Furniture Exhibition is currently underway in Tehran International Fairground.
Some 486 domestic and 114 foreign companies from 13 countries are participating in the five-day event.
They include Italy, Turkey, France, Austria, Sweden, India, UAE, Syria and Germany.


The products, including home and office furniture, decoration and interior design, machineries, are on display in the exhibition.
The exhibition seeks to introduce the potentials of domestic industry, create opportunity to establish relations between leading foreign and domestic companies by concluding agreements as well as provide opportunity for exchange of views among those involved in the industry.
The exhibition was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by the head of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines Mohammad Nahavandian on Wednesday.
According to Iran Daily, at the ceremony, Nahavandian expressed hope that such fairs will help the Islamic Republic in making headway in the world economy.
Underlining the need for active presence of economic enterprises in the global economy, he added that Iran can easily attain a foothold in the international furniture market.
He put the revenues earned from furniture export at dlrs 2.5 million in the year to March 2014.