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Great outdoors

By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, October 14, 2001

Depending on whom you talk to, the "outdoor life" means anything from waking up miles from the nearest road in a tent ensconced in an alpine meadow to parking the Winnebago in a camping area replete with store, showers, restaurants and other modern conveniences. Maybe it's just a drive in the country. Whatever the definition, furniture manufacturers are tapping into a perceived appreciation on the part of consumers with product evoking the outdoors through style, construction, design details or a combination thereof.

GREAT LODGING In the American Spirit collection, Riverside seeks a sophisticated lodge feel through distressed pine construction and casual motifs like the louvered slats on a wall systems door fronts.

CALL OF THE WILD This end table is part of hooker's Safari collection of occasional tables in themes evoking the vast savannahs of Africa.

CABIN FEVER Part of marshfield's Woodlands collection, this sectional makes a transitional style statement. Various nailhead-trim options are available.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM This heavily carved, exposed wood chair from Parker southern makes strong animal statements. Fabrics are by Peachtree and Mastercraft.

THE REAL MCCOY The Country Tour collection from ferguson copeland includes a console with legs made from genuine elk antlers. (No worries, animal lovers — the antlers are naturally shed and picked up from where they're found in the wilderness.)

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