Posted in General on Jan 17th, 2010
I hear on the grapevine that retro furniture is the new fad amongst the trendy generation around the country. But as times change so fast, I have to ask what exactly constitutes being retro furniture nowadays. If you tap ‘retro furniture’ into Google you come up with all manner of strange shaped chairs. They vary [...]
Posted in General on Jan 13th, 2010
The new year has started and many of us will have sat down written our new year’s resolutions. One of the most popular will be re-arranging your house and starting a new year with a fresh look in the home. So if you are going to be undertaking this then I think the following points [...]
Posted in General on Jan 7th, 2010
So being someone who suffers from a bad back, and having recently started a new job where i had a workstation risk assessment, it got me thinking about what would be the best form of seating. I have seen lots of articles relating to posture, be it the angle that your feet are at to [...]
Posted in General on Dec 22nd, 2009
The BBC has announced that it would like design students from around the North of England to send in designs for furniture and fabric for it’s new home in Salford Quays. The BBC plan to move to Media City in Salford Quays in the Spring of 2011 and the competition will be open until 30 [...]
Posted in General on Dec 21st, 2009
Back in November, Minneapolis based furniture company Blu Dot embarked upon a social experiment where they placed 25 of their “Real Good” metal chairs around New York city. These chairs were fitted with GPS and were watched closely by a mixture of remote cameras and cameramen. The purpose of the experiment was to see who [...]
Posted in General on Dec 19th, 2009
Ever fancied owning crystal studded sofas, tables, mirror frames and lamps? This trend which was once a favourite of European royalty is coming back in a big way via India. Previously, indulgent royals would venture to Paris and Milan to purchase this luxury furniture but now Indian designers have started using it in their designs [...]
Posted in General on Dec 18th, 2009
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has stated that Glencraft, a factory in Aberdeen which was staffed by blind and disabled people and which shut down in November, could still re-emerge as a new company. The Minister was presented with a 2,500 signature petition last week by members of Glencraft staff, in which the Minister was [...]
Posted in General on Dec 17th, 2009
As iPhone apps spring up to cater for every aspect of our lives, it was only inevitable that the furniture industry got in on the act sooner or later. This month IKEA and House of Fraser have released apps that will allow people to browse their new 2010 catalogues, but will it work? Does the [...]
Posted in General on Dec 16th, 2009
Fears have been raised over the danger of flatscreen TVs that are not secured properly after a new study in the US revealed that 8,000 children in the US are injured every year by televisions. In the last 18 months in Britain alone, 4 children have died after having TVs fall on them, according to [...]
Posted in General on Dec 15th, 2009
At a school in Deeside, Scotland senior pupils have been inspired to embark upon their own business venture, designing and building garden furniture. The company called Benchmark, was formed after pupils saw the chairs being built by the technical department at the Aboyne Academy. The handmade garden chairs which have already received a great deal [...]