Carving a new niche for itself
Article Abstract:
Retailer Liberty is commissioning furniture designers to produce work for its modern furniture department. Liberty's own-label furniture was previously highly respected by museums and private buyers worldwide, but the store closed its furniture department in 1993, partly because of the economic recession. The store now believes the market for contemporary-designed furniture has expanded. Designs by Christopher Healey, which will be offered as part of the Liberty IV collection, are being displayed in Liberty's furniture gallery.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Emma Hawkins loves wildlife to death. She is a taxidermist
Article Abstract:
There is currently strong demand for antique stuffed animals and related curios, according to Emma Hawkins, who owns a shop which contains a wide range of unusual items. These include fossils, whale teeth, sporting trophies and items collect for scientific interest. She is keen to emphasise that she does not support the killing of animals to stuff them or for their furs, and does not supply modern pieces.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Is it a shoebox? Or a spice cupboard? Or even a wine rack? It can be used as all these things, but really it is your own personally designed and custom-built coffin
Article Abstract:
Heaven on Earth is the first interior design shop in the UK to sell only items relating to death. It offers basic coffins at around 150 pounds sterling, along with items such as caskets, grave decorations and coffin handles. Many people are now selecting a coffin which they can use as an item of furniture and which they feel is most appropriate to their personality.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: A victory for the thin-skinned. A real life or death decision. 'We have lost the art of judging right from wrong ... We are in danger of becoming a shallow society.' (George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury)(Interview)
- Abstracts: Fair dealing. Forever friends with her bank manager. Straight flesh, nothing fancy
- Abstracts: Offload your stress on a fellow student. Where there's a will there's a war
- Abstracts: Oxbridge: a game for rich kids? Appliance to science but women still miss out on first degree. Church schools want ballots, too
- Abstracts: When the smiling stops, the lawyers move in. Foundering fathers. So how do the rats plead? Guilty