There are several possible contributors to the growth in furnitureand home furnishings sales including new constructions that were delayed, frustrations with old furniture that should have been replaced earlier, etc.
If that is the case and the increase in sales among private furnitureand home furnishings retailers can be attributed at least in part to home staging, then that should be a hopeful sign that the housing market is picking up.
Matahari Cottages has six flamboyantly themed rooms, including the 'Batavia Dacha' and the 'Indian Pasha', stuffed with Balinese furnitureand colourful soft furnishings.
The big design news in Stockholm this fall is the expansion of the flagship store of Svenskt Tenn, the 87-year-old home-furnishings label known for the modernist furnitureand fantastical textile patterns of Austrian-born architect Josef Frank (1885-1967).
Because many pieces of so-called American Empire furniture were mass-produced by later, lesser makers than Phyfe and Lannuier, interest in collecting American Classical furnishings has been at a low ebb for several decades.