Features Claude Monet collection AT THE MARKET — Case goods manufacturer Habersham has redesigned its High Point showroom in Market Square, space 142, to display two new lifestyles and a new licensed group for the Claude Monet collection. Monet’s Journeys has more than 20 pieces inspired by the painter’s works and his extensive travels. The collection features a grand-scale entertainment center, bookcases and occasional furniture that draw from the Impressionist painter’s trips from the Normandy
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Products will appear in a new home on the set. Beginning with the April 22 episode, ABC’s Sunday night hit series, Desperate Housewives, will feature 16 products from Norcross, Ga.-based Sterling Industries. Most of the products will decorate the home of a new character, Victor, who does not live on Wisteria Lane, but is in pursuit of Gabrielle, who does. However, a pair of Sterling’s candlesticks will be going into Gabrielle’s home. After visiting Sterling’s
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Interior decorating and furniture is usually a serious topic. You literally “live” with the decisions that you make often for some time. I thought about having some fun this morning. Besides, it is a Monday! I found some furniture examples that I think you will enjoy looking at. This is what is called theme furniture and is not for everyone. Even if this is not your taste, I think you will enjoy looking at it.
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The retrospective exhibition “Bruno Mathsson: Architect and Designer,” opening today at The Bard Graduate Center, consists of approximately 150 examples of furniture, photographs, architectural drawings and models installed chronologically on three floors. It’s a show that starts strong but peters out halfway through, a strikingly accurate metaphor of Mathsson’s own unstable projection as a designer over the course of the 20th century. For the most part, Mathsson’s designs are solid, though far from ground breaking.
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Marlon Brando’s heirs are suing a Canadian furniture company after making the company an offer it refused. The late actor’s family has been trying for months to get Palliser Furniture Ltd. to stop marketing a line of plush home theater chairs dubbed the Brando without a licensing agreement. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeks unspecified damages but claims sales of the chair “exceed several million dollars on a worldwide basis.”
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