High Point Furniture Market Report: Better News This Month
It wasn’t the best of times, but it wasn’t the worst either as the furniture industry gathered for its market this month. Spoiler alert: Until the housing market starts to come back – really back – furniture makers and retailers are just not going to return to the good times they experienced before COVID…much less […]
Seven of Top 25 Furniture Pieces of Last 100 Years Are of Wood
Furniture can be made of any number of materials but a new New York Times ranking shows products made of wood to be a dominant material. Granted it’s a subjective ranking, but a new New York Times survey of the 25 “most defining” pieces of furniture of the past 100 years should make those in […]
A 90-Year-Old Furniture Icon Has a Big Problem
The Alvar Aalto design Stool 60 is one of the most iconic pieces of wooden furniture ever designed but it’s running out of one thing. Back when famed furniture designer Alvar Aalto created his three-legged bentwood chair, Stool 60, 90 years ago it would have been hard to believe its manufacturer would be facing a […]
Embracing the Natural Look of Wood Grain in Furniture
In current interior design practice, functionality is a factor in furniture vetting and selection. But other decision drivers are also at work. Topping the list is the debate between utilizing stain coloring and embracing the organic, natural look of wood grain in furniture. Until recently, stain coloring has been the deciding factor in what typically are big-ticket […]
Interior Designers Are the New Architects
They always were involved in home design but increasingly interior designers are creating the houses themselves. For home and commercial builders used to working with traditional architects there’s increasingly another player in the creation of new houses and other commercial structures: the interior designer. TV host Bobby Berk, an Emmy Award-winning designer well known to […]
Color of the Year? Depends on Who You Ask
For those builders trying to decide what color kitchen cabinets, floor coverings and even interior paint to use this year, the color gurus have answers – and plenty of them. The Color of the Year announcements that came out towards the end of 2023 have turned into high-profile affairs both for consumers looking to decorate […]
Design Magazine Domino Says Pinewood ‘Is Back’
Long relegated to a less prominent role in home wood usage, the design magazine says pine is gaining its popularity back. Pine has gotten a bad rap as a “cheap” wood the past few decades, the victim of too many kitchen cabinet jobs and assorted uses around the house. But now Domino magazine, which chronicles […]
All About Design at IWF 2024
IWF Design Emphasis is celebrated as a premier furniture design competition for U.S. college students. To explore the best of the 2022 awards—including Design Emphasis winners and judges—go here.
High Point Furniture Market Continues Rebound
Even as the overall market for home furnishings products, including wooden case goods, remains soft, the leading trade show for the sector showed a 6% increase in registrations. Reflecting the overall housing market and rising interest rates, the home furnishings sector remains soft, off significantly from the boom years of the pandemic when Americans spent […]
IWF Introduces the Design Side of Wood
Starting now, the industry’s newest wood-based and engineered materials created for the built environment move into the IWF product resources spotlight with IWF Design. Featured are the latest surfaces, finishes, hardware, and much more in hundreds of lines from top design-driven manufacturers. Learn more about IWF Design here.