The buzz and bucolic scenery drew furniture maker Stephen Culp, 38, to Chattanooga from Palo Alto in 2001.
Swedish furniture maker Ikea surprises customers in China with reassurances that its meatballs are made locally and contain no horsemeat.
Other retailers are embracing simplicity, too: Office furniture maker Herman Miller has actively reduced the variations on its iconic Aeron chair.
Goetz, 50, who graduated from Brown University with an anthropology degree, fell into boatbuilding after training as a furniture maker in Germany.
Kimberly-Clark placed space-usage sensors offered by furniture maker Herman Miller Inc.
Office furniture maker Steelcase asked RWD to design a system that could help even computer-illiterate salesmen configure and price a suite of office furniture using a laptop.
He found that a furniture maker near Elkhart would let cars full of wood sit on tracks every year at the same time, clogging the rail sidings.
It turns out the furniture maker would buy a whole year's supply of wood when the price was good but didn't have the space or the manpower to unload the big shipments.
They could get a job learning from a plumber or a machinist, or apprenticing to a furniture maker or just sitting in the library with a big stack of books and a notepad.
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As longboards go, the Funk Chubby is on the shorter side, but its deck extends a few inches wider than most for added stability, according to the board's designer, Brooklyn-based furniture maker Daniel Moyer.
Fifty-year-old Basuki Rachmad, a furniture maker from Banjarmasin, complains he cannot get a permit to obtain his raw materials since a legal license to buy wood is only granted to businesses that purchase over 100 cubic meters a month, three times his requirement.
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IKEA, a giant Swedish furniture-maker, Kunskapsskolan gets its customers to do much of the work themselves.
So last year, Paulo Bacchi, a well-known furniture-maker and designer from Brazil, was hired to create a new look.
The planned sculptures, by architect Adam Zombory-Moldovan and furniture-maker Simon Thomas Pirie, would be sited at The Commons in Shaftesbury.
The duo started buying high-end reproductions of famous modern pieces from manufacturers, including Herman Miller, the exclusive U.S. maker of furniture created by the Eameses, and storing them in a California warehouse so they could be shipped promptly.
The duo started buying high-end reproductions of famous modern pieces from manufacturers, including Herman Miller (nasdaq: MLHR - news - people ), the exclusive U.S. maker of furniture created by the Eameses, and storing them in a California warehouse so they could be shipped promptly.
The roster includes two physicians, a hat maker, a furniture manufacturer, a fellow-traveling lawyer, a small-time criminal lawyer, a corrupt (in the best Chicago tradition) lawyer, a high-school teacher, a sculptor, an unsuccessful inventor, and a sad loser who rides the rails during the Depression.
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