By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, October 14, 2001
Contemporary design continues its celebration of clean lines and lean shapes. This season's case goods are boldly austere, ranging from the cubist forms — both seen and imagined — emanating from Hickory White's sideboard, to the sleek tonal quality of Hurtado's accent hardware. Upholstery ratchets up, too, with such curvilinear applications as Rick Lee's supple sectional for American Leather and Stanley Jay Friedman's stylized seating for Weiman.
FIFTIES' CLASSIC Retrospect, a new collection from Hickory White, combines Retro design with exotic, high-sheen Albizia veneers on maple solids.
CONTEMPORARY TRANSITION - LEDA'S Park Plaza dining table in primavera veneers has a ratchet extension top and is available in two finishes, deep port or natural champagne.
SLINKY AND SEXY Rick Lee's 20-foot-long slinky Guggenheim sectional for American Leather swings into a modular system that doubles as chaise or ottoman. From $5,000 to $7,000 depending on leather. Shown in Tigre's Carnival Oyster with Ultrasuede accents.
REALLY RED Upholstery pieces in WEIMAN'S Stanley Jay Friedman collection can be put together in a variety of configurations.
WIRE TAP A free-form chaise from comfort designs floats on wire legs. Cover is by Costa Blanca.
STYLE WITH A BITE This curio is from BERNHARDT'S Satori collection, whose predominant style theme features exotic veneers with primitive elements such as tusk-like legs on tables.
EXPANDED VISION Creative Elegance rounded out a popular collection, Visions, with new tables in modern/minimalist-style rift cut oak.
PLAYING A NEW TUNE Hurtado, a high-end Spanish player in traditional styles, enters the contemporary style category with the Jazz collection in teak, which includes this chest.
SIMPLE SERENITY The name says it all: The Zen bedroom by HUPPE seeks clarity of style with simple lines and a clean chocolate finish, accented with aluminum.
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NAPLES, Fla. — Industry executives and guests took the opportunity to network and play golf during down time at Furniture/Today's 13th annual Leadership Conference here this month.
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