There's More To Quality Than Just Looks
Jane Adler presents a buyer’s guide to testing furniture quality. Spokespersons urge checking construction from frame to padding, joints, and finishes. Key points include hardwood frames, double dowels, glued and screwed joints, reinforced corner blocks, straight skirts, tight seams, and dense foam or spring fillings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Adler
Joyce Kupecki
Southern Furniture Market Center
Greg Harris
National Home Furnishings Association
Harris
Scripps-Howard News Service
Diverse fashions reshape home furnishings in the 80s trend
Deborah Brown of House Beautiful notes a shift from single color palettes to multiple styles in vogue. Five main fashions emerge American Country, Neoclassic, Contemporary, Deco and Japanese, plus English and French influenced country and regional American styles. Modern Post-Modern designs from Knoll and the Venturi Collection showcase bold lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Adler
Deborah Brown
House Beautiful
Brown
Shirley van Zante
Southwest
Knoll International
Venturi
Robert Venturi
Lugi Bianco
Tweetie
Sylvester
Europe
Memphis
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