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When you do put your books on a shelf, try not to be too uniform. Instinct may tell you to arrange books by size but it’s much more visually interesting if you mix it up a bit – not only by size but by color, texture and age as well. It’s OK to put your faded classic novels next to your book of contemporary art with the bright, shiny dust jacket.

Here are just a few ideas for making your bookcase into a statement:

You can also use small ...

Vendôme from designer Lorenzo Bellini, which is now being presented at the 2011 Milan tradeshow for the very first time, is an aesthetic furniture program which abstracts the classical structural elements and interprets them in a contemporary fashion. A very up-to-date collection is thus created in stylish design.

Vendôme was inspired by the streams of the eighteenth century and the new horizons that were developed by the French decorators in the 1930s and 1940s. French flair ...

Did you know that Gunlocke originally started in 1902 as a chair manufacturer before expanding into other furniture products? Over a century of making quality chairs has lent the opportunity for a lifetime of stories. Nine American Presidents have made important national decisions sitting in our Washington chair. A hardworking writer has written his best novels in his Bank of England executive chair. We hope that through the year, in one way or another, a Gunlocke chair has entered into your ...

Discover a Complete Office Solution That Offers Attainable Style without Sacrificing Individual Expression.

Gunlocke® proudly unveils yet another smart office solution, the Trio casegood collection. Designed to create harmony in the workplace by meeting the private office needs of an organization at every level, Trio does so without sacrificing the quality or craftsmanship that is synonymous with Gunlocke.
The breadth of the new Trio collection, paired with its scalability, translates ...

The woodworkers of New Mexico have always been at the forefront of creating the details of Santa Fe Style. When Onate came to settle New Mexico in 1598 with his entourage of hundreds only a handful were listed as carpenters or carpinteros. These men likely were trained in the well established guild system of Mexico and each brought with him the few simple tools in his possession like; a few axes, an adze, a couple of chisels, and maybe a saw or an auger. The guilds in Mexico trained their ...

Recently Paul White contacted Hickory Chair eager to learn more about his Mother's dining room set. He mentioned that recently his Mother passed and one of the things she left him was her antique Hickory Chair dining room set. All 6 chairs have a paper (stuck on with the original stain) '' Hickory Chair Manufacturing Hickory N.C'' Underneath the table there is a black ink stamp that ...