• All prices retail • In-depth stories on home office introductions will appear in Furniture/Today's opening-day issue •
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The Tide is Low: The quantity of office introductions appears to be down, especially when compared with the category's heyday of three years ago.
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Updated Traditional: Computer functions such as wire management and peripheral storage are now de rigueur, even with 18th-century executive desks.
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Flexible function: Major factories in this category are developing cabinets that work easily for both entertainment and office, although not at the same time.
Aico IHFC G-777
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Adding a desk/credenza set to Villagio, an Italian collection finished in a hazelnut tone.
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Brittany English country collection is being expanded with a desk/credenza set. Features an English truffle finish.
Ameriwood C&D 9th floor
Four new flat-pack home office entries include two transitional styles, one in a light maple finish and the other in a medium walnut; a French Country design in a medium walnut finish; and a Euro contemporary design with four pieces featuring unique construction and design.
Bush IHFC W-547
Building on its success with assembled case goods furniture, Bush Furniture will showcase four new Eric Morgan collections, including several office and study pieces. Notable for Euro styling and all-melamine surfaces, the Eric Morgan brand includes Young Living, a youth bedroom/study group. Ms. Frame, a youth bedroom collection, unites soft curves with angles in a style that's both young and sophisticated. All-melamine surfaces are finished in pale beech with silver and mirror accents. The Ms. Frame collection includes space-efficient desks with lots of built-in storage.
D-Scan 220 Elm
The Wave series features concave and convex bookcases that create a "wave" look. In wood veneer with a natural cherry finish.
Euro Style C&D 8A
The Hillary chair is both functional and fun. Part of the company's alliance with the Italian manufacturer Stilloffice, the heavy-duty construction is designed for comfort as well as visual interest. The seat and back are laminated beech, padded with fire-resistant polyurethane foam and covered in designer fabrics. Hillary has a gas lift for easy adjusting and a polished aluminum coated steel base on castors for mobility, $149 retail.
French Heritage 422 North Wrenn
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Expanding its home office assortment to meet increased demand, French Heritage is adding six pieces to its Schooner collection in solid French cherry, mahogany and walnut burl. The nautical theme is modeled after pieces found on 18th- and 19th-century schooners.
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Also, the Valmaison collection is being expanded with 10 new pieces in solid French cherry, walnut and oak. These reproductions include bookcases and desks.
Healthstyle NFM 706
New office chairs include an executive leather series with wood bases and ergonomic features. Leather styles include a weathered brown bomber finish.
Hekman Hamilton Wrenn S-107
Expanding the Caddington Manor collection with an executive desk system that broadens the company's strength in the 18th- and 19th-century style niche. The fully functional executive desk has a leather top, wire management, drop-down keyboard tray, left and right file drawers and a gang-locking system. Additional pieces include a credenza, desk and double file cabinet. Additional functionality includes storage space for printers, fax machine and other executive peripherals.
Hooker IHFC W-1047
An extensive array of desks and storage pieces, as well as office chairs from sister company Bradington-Young, reinforces Hooker's positioning in the SOHO category.
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The leather desk chair program from Bradington-Young includes finishes that coordinate with Hooker's executive and modular home offices, rounding out a good, better, best executive chair program.
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Also new is a 54-inch custom desk program. This program offers five fashionable, functional styles in several finishes, with consumers' choice of hardware and desk drawers. Includes "your-choice" computer cabinets with left and right bookcases, or HDTV cabinets with left and right component walls. The same cabinet can be configured for computer or HDTV, and the shelves on either side can be bookcases or component/display for entertainment.
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A new laptop computer small office. With laptop computers now approaching 50% of the market, there is more demand for modulars to accommodate these — smaller-scaled pieces in styling to appeal to younger consumers. They also feature a sliding task light.
Riverside IHFC C-302
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Two new desks in the Metro Home Office grouping are stylish, functional and promotable. Available in two finishes, both offer ample storage for keyboard and mouse, large monitor cavities and enclosed storage behind a double-hinged panel door for a scanner and printer on pullout trays. The accompanying storage decks have open storage compartments with a corkboard back panel. The two-drawer file, corner worktop and leg desk provide additional workspace for side-by-side or corner configurations.
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Also new is the Extraordinaire dual-purpose armoire for office or entertainment, $999 retail. Engineered for either use, this cabinet will serve both the home office customer and the entertainment customer, as well as the customer who wants flexibility from furniture.
Sauder 220 Elm Building, 218
The Arts and Crafts-inspired design of Sauder's existing Mission collection gets a refreshing update, including five home office pieces. The New Mission collection features conservative, straight wood graining and clean, simple hardware that exudes an age-old warmth and contemporary flair. Lockport, a winning contemporary introduction in October, is adding a new home office piece to complement the existing cherry-finish-and-metal-bases lineup.
Stanley IHFC C-1158
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Provincia is a European traditional collection with Louis Philippe elements, crafted of maple solids and rogue maple veneers in an Old World style. Design elements include bold crown moldings, fluted posts, wooden knobs and brass hardware. Unique pieces maintain the design integrity of the rest of the house, with all the function and storage needed in office furniture. Included are a display bookcase with glass doors and two file cabinets, a partners-style desk for three people, a decorative writing desk and a small lawyer bookcase.
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Urban Comfort combines contemporary and traditional elements into a relaxed collection of cherry solids and veneers with a light finish. Designed for flexibility, key pieces include a laptop desk with a pullout drawer, a lawyer's bookcase with open bookshelves on both sides, and chocolate leather desktop organizers. A new bookcase system offers five different formats that can be configured in endless options.
Tvilum-Scanbirk 220 Elm, 330
The Prima collection is a complete home office, including storage, in beech, cherry and maple melamine. Desks are available with panel sides or steel legs. The hutches have hinged doors, and the file cabinets come with metal runners on drawers and bookcases. Other features include finished backs and metal handles. There are levelers on all desks and bookcases as well as a wire management system.
Wynwood Plaza Suites, 407
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The Burlington home office collection features five pieces in a European mahogany finish with curved fronts and elaborately carved pilasters and marble accents, with a desk to retail at $1,299.
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The Rue de Lyon home office includes nine pieces in a brown cherry finish with picture-frame accenting. The bookcases have file function, and a desk and hutch will retail for $1,299.
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Estes Park is a 10-piece home office collection in a relazed Sierra Oak finish with raised panels, burnished accents and doors accented with leaded glass. An L configuration with hutch will retail for $1,499.
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Wynwood also is offering its first direct-import SOHO program from China.
