Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Baby Elizabeth Child's Rocking Chair
This adorable miniature oak rocking chair is an excellent addition to your child's room or nursery. The Baby Elizabeth Child's Rocking Chair is a great accent piece and works wonderfully for your youngster. When not in use, display a favorite doll or teddy bear in it for an extra special touch.
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Iron Love Bench
2 Chairs By Van Gogh
The two paintings of Vincent's and Paul Gauguin's chairs are among the most often analyzed of Van Gogh's works. These companion paintings have attracted much attention because of the symbolic interpretations underlying the subject matter.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Tom Dixon Designs "Bombay Sapphire Stretch"
April 1, 2006 - Bombay Sapphire, Tom Dixon and Milan Malpensa International Airport are proud to unveil the longest sofa in the world, the Bombay Sapphire Stretch.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Cats' Art At crewsviews.blogspot.com
Furniture art is probably the most complicated and least understood art form we cats create. Neither Mom or Dad has any appreciation for it. You declawed cats might have a hard time with this art form unless you use your teeth, which is prefectly OK and can create interesting patterns.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Furniture Can Be Deadly For Kids
An alarming number of kids are injured or killed by furniture that tips over. Find out what you can do to prevent accidents
Quadra Dining Chair
To sell furniture through Internet you need really attractive photos. Something like this.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
Dangerous Furniture Rating
Even cool and modern furniture often cause accidents.
Falls are the most common office accident. Injuries may result from slips, or falls from chairs and elevations.
Falls are the most common type of accident among young children. For example, each year there are close to 20,000 emergency ward visits following falls among children aged 0-3 years in Sweden.
Here is my rating.
1. A lot of people (even not children) adore rocking, sitting in their chairs. Falls occur really often. So the first place is occupied by chairs. Maybe idea of some Eastern people to sit on the floor is not too bad? ;)
2. Oh these bed-falls. There’s no need to tell about them. Suppose beds are lower than chairs, so 2nd place.
3. Sometimes you sleep on sofas. Have you seen “Secret window” with Johnny Depp? Do you remember his night fall? It’s fascinating.
4. High chairs and changing tables concern only kids. ”Stood up in his high chair, fell backwards headfirst onto the parquet floor, contusion of the head.”
5. The danger of tables has another nature. One clumsy gesture and your fork is under the table. You’re looking for it in the dark. And, finally, “I get it! O-ouch!”
Uhmm… Stop-stop-stop. I’d better to get rid of some furniture in my room. Does anybody need a sofa?
Falling accidents among young children in Sweden
Parents advice about falling babies
Falls are the most common office accident. Injuries may result from slips, or falls from chairs and elevations.
Falls are the most common type of accident among young children. For example, each year there are close to 20,000 emergency ward visits following falls among children aged 0-3 years in Sweden.
Here is my rating.
1. A lot of people (even not children) adore rocking, sitting in their chairs. Falls occur really often. So the first place is occupied by chairs. Maybe idea of some Eastern people to sit on the floor is not too bad? ;)
2. Oh these bed-falls. There’s no need to tell about them. Suppose beds are lower than chairs, so 2nd place.
3. Sometimes you sleep on sofas. Have you seen “Secret window” with Johnny Depp? Do you remember his night fall? It’s fascinating.
4. High chairs and changing tables concern only kids. ”Stood up in his high chair, fell backwards headfirst onto the parquet floor, contusion of the head.”
5. The danger of tables has another nature. One clumsy gesture and your fork is under the table. You’re looking for it in the dark. And, finally, “I get it! O-ouch!”
Uhmm… Stop-stop-stop. I’d better to get rid of some furniture in my room. Does anybody need a sofa?
Falling accidents among young children in Sweden
Parents advice about falling babies
How To Choose A Bed Or Mattress By Florence Cardinal
What's your bed like? Is it starting to look a bit the worse for wear? Does it sag in the middle? Can you feel the shape of the springs when you lie down? I've even heard of people who were trying to sleep on a mattress so old that the springs were actually sticking through the cover! I certainly hope you are not in that category.
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Splitback Sleeper
Splitback sleeper combines pop style with modular function, bringing modern luxury to any living space. Designed in Denmark, the Splitback Sofa Bed is sleek, sexy, and above all, original. The split-level construction allows you to choose from three unique comfortable positions; sofa, lounge or bed.
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Sunday, August 20, 2006
Korean Chest
It would be great to travel with a chest like this ($2900) and 4 servants ($200 per day) to carry it :)
More antique korean chests
Cuckoo clocks
Friedrich Eisenlohr (1805–1854), professor of architecture at Karlsruhe Polytechnic, designed a case for Black Forest clocks in 1850-51 based on the gatekeeper lodges he had designed and built for the Badenian Rhine Valley Railroad. It proved to be an extremely successful design. Bahnhausle clocks can still be found in many clock and souvenir shops all over the world. Their story is worth telling.
And one more thing... The world's largest cuckoo clock from wikipedia :)
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World's Largest Chair
Bassett Furniture has built what they claim as the "World's Largest Chair" as a part of it's centennial celebration.
The chair is 20' 3" tall, 8' 2" wide and it's seat height is 9' 1". It weighs 7,900 pounds and took 1,509 man hours to construct. It is based on the "Grove Park Mission" style of chair that they sell in their stores. The chair is made of layers of solid ash and the seat is made of fiberglass.
World's largest chair at Roadside Gallery
Rocking chair history
We all know that the rocking chair is a distinctly american passion, its origins, however, are less clear. Adding skates or rockers to the bottom of chairs probably evolved from the cradle and the rocking horse, which both predate the rocking chair. apparently no one thought to apply the idea to furniture for adults until the eighteenth century.
The word 'rocker' originated in the 15th century and indicated the person responsible for rocking the cradle. In the 18th century it also meant an orator who put others to sleep. Anyway, it was not until 1787 that the earliest dated citation ' ROCKING CHAIR' appeared in the oxford english
dictionary for usage.
Delicious history of rocking chairs
Sustainability
The term sustainability can be difficult to define for the contemporary furniture designer/manufacturer. Sustainability can mean social responsibility, use of non-polluting technologies and certified materials, employment fairness and more. Though these "manufacturing with a conscience" ideals cannot be argued with, often they are difficult to implement on a regular basis. To encompass these practices we need to be responsible for the production cycle from raw material acquisition through to manufacture, end use and final disposal.
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Saturday, August 19, 2006
2 Modern Furniture Sites
You can find a lot of attractive furniture and home accessories at guild.com and 2modern.com
The Rio Coffee Table
The Rio Coffee Table is classic wood parson's style table. It's chunky legs and top and low profile make this table a straightforward yet elegant design for any setting. Shown here in Espresso Walnut. Designed and manufactured by Desiron.
Desiron offers contemporary custom furniture unlike anyone else. Design combines with practicality to create furniture that allows customization while preserving its design integrity. In addition to its retail line, Desiron develops and fabricates custom designs for the trade, creating one-of-a-kind pieces for designers and architects for use in residential, hospitality and visual-merchandising projects around the world. The Collection is available exclusively through its SOHO Showroom in New York, and to-the-trade at select Showrooms around the country.
The Rio Coffee Table
Desiron
Elegant Wooden Furniture
You can get some good-looking furniture made by talented designers at the Praxis Gallery in Bideford, UK.
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