In creating a comfortable and conducive learning environment, the choice of materials and the design of school desks and chairs are key factors. One important element that is often overlooked is the school desk’s tabletop—the…
Bush Industries Announces Design Department Restructuring
By: Furniture World Magazine As part of an ongoing strategy to strengthen its product-leadership focused business model, Bush Industries announces the promotion of Joe Ruedinger to the position of Director of Product Design. He previously…
Sawgrass overhaul creates tougher test for players
By Jerry Potter, USA TODAY It was time to get The Stadium Course of TPC Sawgrass back on course. Golf course architect Pete Dye's creation, after 27 years of tinkering, had become like a priceless…
Gain Insight into the Wood Office Furniture Manufacturing…
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c56012) has announced the addition of Wood Office Furniture Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. And Its Foreign Trade (1996-2015) to their offering. This industry report focuses upon the Wood Office…
AHFA Focuses On California Formaldehyde Wood Products Compliance…
The American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) is formulating a compliance strategy to help manufacturers meet the strict requirements in California’s formaldehyde emissions regulation. On April 27 California air regulators approved sweeping restrictions on emissions of…
Magnussen Home To Start Shipping From New Asian…
Magnussen Home Furnishings, Inc. announced that it is now shipping from its new Asian Distribution Center (ADC). Located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the program will initially serve a limited number of customers who…
Wholesale Trade Rises 1.8% in March
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that March 2014 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $346.3 billion,…
Those outsized imaginations
Think big? That's so small time. At Milan's furniture showcase, designers go for huge with 5-foot kitchenware and 20-foot lamps to fill rooms and fulfill fantasy. By Janet Eastman, Times Staff Writer Huge is big…
Discovering the Design Paradise that is Milan
Milan has no history as Rome does, no romance as Florence does, and no beauty as Venice does, a British guidebook tells us. Milan may lag behind those cities in terms of cultural legacy, but…