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Furniture repair. Furniture repair is the craft of making broken or worn furniture usable again. It may include the preservation of old furniture, which is referred to as restoration. The craft of furniture repair requires a number of different skills including woodworking, metalworking, wood finishing, caning (furniture), woodturning, and ...
Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word also refers to the materials used to upholster something. Upholstery comes from the Middle English word upholder, [1] which referred to an artisan who makes fabric furnishings. [2]
Naoto Fukasawa. Naoto Fukasawa (深澤 直人; born 1956) is a Japanese designer, author, and educator, [1] working in the fields of product and furniture design. He is known for his product design work with the Japanese retail company Muji, as well as collaborations with companies such as Herman Miller, Alessi, B&B Italia, Emeco, Magis, and ...
Muji. Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. (株式会社良品計画, Kabushiki-gaisha Ryōhin Keikaku) (TYO: 7453), or Muji (無印良品, Mujirushi Ryōhin) is a Japanese retailer which sells a wide variety of household and consumer goods. Muji's design philosophy is minimalist, and it places an emphasis on recycling, reducing production and packaging ...
Website. enzomari.com. Enzo Mari (27 April 1932 [1][2] – 19 October 2020) was an Italian modernist artist and furniture designer who is known to have influenced many generations of industrial designers. [3][4]
A chaise longue (/ ʃeɪz ˈlɒŋ, tʃeɪz -, - ˈlɒ̃ɡ /; [1] French: [ʃɛz lɔ̃ɡ], "long chair") is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs of the sitter. In modern French, the term chaise longue refers to any long reclining chair, such as a deckchair. In English, the term "chaise longue" is ...
A chair being caned. In the context of furniture, caning is a method of weaving chair seats and other furniture, either while building new chairs or in the process of cane chair repair. Furniture or chair caning may be confused with wicker; chair caning is specifically the craft of applying rattan cane or rattan peel to a piece of furniture ...
The No. 14 chair is the most famous chair made by the Thonet chair company. Also known as the ' bistro chair ', it was designed by Michael Thonet and introduced in 1859, becoming the world's first mass-produced item of furniture. [1][2] It is made using bent wood (steam-bending), and the design required years to perfect.