Furniture

Mario Bellini on His Latest Projects (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Architect, Mario Bellini, Cassina, Italian, Fiat, Lighting, Car Design, Lancia, Compasso D'oro, Contemporary, Islamic Art, Designer, crane.tv, Exhibition, Furniture, New York, Architecture, Vitra, Moma, Rudy Ricciotti, Flo, Pei, Tokyo, Cour Visconti, Brionvega, Louvre, B&b Italia, Yamaha, Japan, Erco, Olivetti, Museum, Video, Arts News
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How This Mother And Daughter Triumphed Over Cancer

Huff/Post50 | Lori Weiss | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Encore Careers, Reinvention, Marlo Thomas, Jeanne Bulmer, Furniture, It Ain't Over, Rebound Furniture and Décor Consignment, Second Acts, Health Post50, Breast Cancer, Mothers-Day-Pkg, Faye Slotnick, Cancer, Changing Careers, Slidepollajax, Second Careers, Fifty News

One of the reasons I started my website was to create a place where women can come together and dream. Women should know that they don't have to hang ...

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Hungry? Take A Bite Out Of Furniture

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Sapore Dei Mobili, Waffle Iron, Waffle Furniture, Furniture, Edible Furniture, Waffle Iron Furniture, Furniture Waffle Iron, Food News

Who says waffles need to have a standard shape? Two intrepid designers, Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira, have reshaped the waffle iron. Gone are the ...

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Lenny Kravitz Adds Furniture Designer To His Creative Credentials

AP | COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Lenny Kravitz Furniture, Lenny Kravitz Design, Furniture Design, Milan Design Fair, Furniture, Lenny Kravitz, Black Voices News

MILAN -- Lenny Kravitz has taken a childhood compunction to decorate his bedroom and turned it into another creative endeavor. To rocker, songwriter ...

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Blue-Chip Modern: Who Are the Most Bankable Stars of 20th Century Design?

ARTINFO | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Furniture, Modernism, Artinfo, 20th Century Design, Modern Painters, Charles and Ray Eames, Arts News
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In the season of heavy-hitting antiques trading that opens each new year, including the Americana sales at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York, the W...

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Cleto Munari Auctions His Collection

J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Furniture, Carlo Scarpa, Jack Kerouac, Poet, Architecture, Robert Venturi, Jewelry, Allen Ginsberg, Silverware, Gregory Corso, Artist, Designers, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, Cleto Munari, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

Designer Cleto Munari is putting his personal collection of art, furnishings and objects -- many created in conjunction with architects like Michael G...

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Should I Stay or Should I go?

Toni Haber | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Furnishing a Home, Furniture Design, Antiques, Furniture, Home Furnishings, Moving Furniture, New York News
Toni Haber

Finally having found the ideal place to settle in was so exciting, but even the thought of having to go through all of my stuff and move apartments was daunting. I had to ask myself some tough questions... Should it stay or should it go?

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"What Matters Are Your Values, Not Your Education"

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Italy, Spain, Ikea, Furniture, Mikael Ohlsson, Youth Unemployment, Recession, Ikea-Furniture, Ikea Stores, Business News
Elisabeth Braw

Around the world IKEA is synonymous with cheap, trendy furniture. What's behind the company's success?

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Furniture Of The Future

Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Furniture Design, Video, Furniture, Modern Furniture, Modern Aesthetics, Design, Architecture, Jimenez Lai, Bureau Spectacular, Modern Architecture, Modern Design, Arts News

We've all experienced those never-ending debates when trying to rearrange furniture. You move the bed around because the dressers didn't feel Feng Shu...

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Family Business Made It Big With Guardian Angel's Help

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Chicago Furniture, Furniture Design, Furniture, Tru Furniture, My Chicago, Chicago Craft Furniture, Chicago Business, Chicago Design, Chicago Around Town, Steve Koch, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- When Steve Koch moved to Chicago after graduating from the University of Nebraska's design school, he had little more to his name than a r...

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Halfway to High Point and the 2012 Untraditional Traditional

Courtney Cachet | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Furniture Design, Lane Venture, Furniture, HIgh Point, Style Expert Courtney Cachet, Courtney Cachet, Home Decor, Marjorie Skouras, Jonathan Adler, 2012 Trends, Drexel Heritage, Traditional Home, Interior Design, Thomasville, Style News
Courtney Cachet

Recently I have been seeing furniture finally (thank goodness!) catching up with what people really want. I like to think of it as Untraditional Traditional.

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PHOTOS: Perfect Gifts For The Art Fanatic

Artlog | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Holidays, Furniture, Design, Artlog, Little Collector, Moma, Artspace, Holiday Gifts, The Tate, Holiday, Gift Guide, Art, Grey Area, The Neue Galerie, Gift-Guides, The New Museum, Christmas, The Whitney Museum, Slidepollajax, 20x200, The Guggenheim, Interior Design, Museum of Arts and Design, Risd, Arts News
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Over at Artlog, we've compiled a list of unique gifts from our favorite museum stores and art websites, and the best part is, they're all online!

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Terence Conran: The Way We Live Now (VIDEO)

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Design Museum, Exhibition, Furniture, Lifestyle, Conran, Restaurant, Terence Conran, Deyan Sudjic, Design, crane.tv, Living, Retail, Product, British, Video, Arts News
Constantin Bjerke

True visionary Terence Conran's genius comes from his capacity to anticipate people's whims and needs to change the way people live, shop, eat and even educate themselves.

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Rethinking Classroom Furniture

| Dana Chivvis | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Education, Video, The School at Columbia University, Furniture, American Classrooms, Classrooms, Classroom Furniture, Tools at Schools, u.s. Classrooms, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Nation's The Learning Curve blog. NBC News education reporter Dana Chivvis writes. Classroom furniture...

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The Buzz About Ralph Lauren -- America's Style Icon

Chloe Spencer | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Clothing, Furniture, Lincoln Center, Entrepreneurs, Passion, Billionaires, Clothes, Celebrity Style, Biography, Success, Oprah Winfrey, Polo Ralph Lauren, Style, Inspiration, Fashion, Entrepreneurship, Ralph Lauren, Style News
Chloe Spencer

There has been a lot of buzz about Ralph Lauren lately, as some may know--The Lincoln Center in New York presented An Evening With Ralph Lauren, hoste...

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Behind the Scenes at Disaster Planning & Response Art Rescue

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Furniture, Stan Bernacki, Sculpture, Planning, Art Repair, Conservators, Art Conservation, Painting, Transportation, Terry Dowd, Art, Response, Disaster, Storage, DPR Art Rescue, Chicago News
Elysabeth Alfano

DPR Art Rescue handles art emergencies. They can evacuate and care for artwork in the event of a fire, flood or any natural emergency. Now that's an organization that supports artists!

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Zaha Hadid's Product Design

VernissageTV | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Exhibition, Furniture Design, Zaha Hadid, Furniture, Form, Car, Collab, Architecture, Design, Designers, Cars, Philadelphia, Motion, Interview, Arts News
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Zaha Hadid is one of the world's most popular architects and designers. The Iraqi-British architect created landmark buildings such as the Phaeno Scie...

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The Munari Furniture Collection: The Art of Function

Darby Roach | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Munari Design, Furniture Design, Furniture, Furniture Collections, Furniture Designers, Furniture Art, Munari Furniture, Arts News
Darby Roach

Really good design works not only on a purely utilitarian level but also provides us with an aesthetically pleasing experience. It meets our everyday needs as it feeds our souls. And shouldn't that be an essential part of everyone's life?

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Design Firms: The New Rock Bands?

Joel Edmondson | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Charles Eames, Ideo, Furniture, Design Firm, Design, Rich Brilliant Willing, Misewell, Objeti, Arts News
Joel Edmondson

When I first moved to New York after graduation, I moved to Astoria because it was sensibly priced and conveniently located to work as compared to Bro...

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Entire Eames Living Room Comes To LACMA

Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: La Art, Resnick Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Furniture, Modernism, Ray Eames, Design, Architecture, Pacific Standard Time, California Design, Lacma, Los Angeles, Modern Design, Eames House, Pst, The Eames, Charles Eames, LA Art Scene, Arts News

There is a good chance Pacific Standard Time (PST), a Los Angeles-wide exhibition initiative tackling every major art movement from 1945-1980, will ti...

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"The Best Seat in the House"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Furniture, Sofa, Empty Nesters, Humor, Couch, Homemaking, Home Decorating, Nostalgia, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

I can no longer eat, sleep, drink beer, watch football, get thrown up on by our kids or do anything else on the best couch we ever had because it has gone to what I assume is, appropriately, its eternal rest.

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Tyvek:Design Material?

Joel Edmondson | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Dupont, Tyvek, Artecnica, Karl Zahn, Environment Furniture, Heath Nash, Eco-Friendly, Jean-Marie Massaud, Modernmaine, Furniture, Design, Ligthing, Arts News
Joel Edmondson

The discovery of Tyvek® was a chance occurrence, when in 1955 a researcher noticed white polyethylene fluff coming out of a pipe in a DuPont experime...

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One Kings Lane: Remaking The Home Online

Jacob Slevin | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Home Decor, Design, Materials, Furniture, Products, Zynga, One Kings Lane, Susan Feldman, Mark Pincs, Ali Pincus, E-Commerce, Home Furnishings, Arts News
Jacob Slevin

Who wouldn't want luxury furnishings at clearance prices? Right! In the past five years, we've witnessed the Internet turn retail upside down in marke...

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Experience Parisian Opulence At The Getty

Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Getty Center, Louis Xv, Furniture, France, Eighteenth Century, Getty Museum, Design, 18th Century, The Getty, Instruments, Los Angeles, French Arts, Paris, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

The Getty Museum's exhibition "Paris Life and Luxury" is a chance to experience the opulence which filled the parlors of Paris in the mid-eighteenth c...

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Apple Powermats & Chair Comas: NeoCon 2011 Unplugged

Jacob Slevin | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Architecture, Design, Materials, Furniture, Commercial Furnishings, Furnishings, Neocon, Products, Blooper Reel, Interfaceflor, Neocon Wtf, Merchandise Mart, Powermat, Video, Apple, Knoll, Chicago, Commerical Design Expo, Steelcase, Ecoupled Technology, Herman Miller, Technology, Neocon 2011, Heller, Bretford, Arts News
Jacob Slevin

Last week, the nation's leading commercial design expo -- NeoCon (formerly NeoCon WTF) -- came and went for it's 42nd year in Chicago's historic Merch...

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