Different Woods Used for Furniture

Different Woods Used for Furniture
The most used furniture making woods are Oak, Cedar, Pine, Cherry, Maple, Bamboo,  Mahogany, Teak, Wicker and Veneers.

Oak Furniture

Pine Furniture

Mapple Furniture

Bamboo Furniture

Fairs of the Furniture in the United States 2011

Fairs of the Furniture in the United States 2011

This is the calendar of the next fairs of the furniture to be realised in the United States during the year of 2011.

Lightfair International May 17, 2011 LFI - Light Fair International: Fair of the Illumination Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, Philadelphia - Pennsylvania Convention Center Surtex May 15, 2011

 

Fair of Art and Design Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, New York, NY - Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

Salt Lake Tribune Spring Home & Garden Festival March 10, 2011 Salt Lake Tribune Spring Home and Garden Festival -

 

Fair of Furniture and Decoration. Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, Sandy, UT - South Towne Exposition Centre Palm Beach Fine Craft Show March 04, 2011

Annual sample of Art for collectors, Florida Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, West Palm Beach - Palm Beach County Convention Center

Minneapolis Home & Garden Show March 02, 2011 Minneapolis Home & Garden Show - Fair of Furniture, Decoration and Garden, the USA.

 

Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, Minneapolis - Minneapolis Convention Center

Original Miami Beach Antique Show February 03, 2011 Original Miami Beach Antique Show - , Florida.

Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, Miami - Miami Beach Convention Center Oklahoma City

 

Home & Garden January 21, 2011 Products and services for improvements in the home Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, Oklahoma - State Fairgrounds of Oklahoma

Washington Craft Show November 19, 2010 Washington Craft Show - Fair of Crafts of high quality, Washington DC.

Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, Washington - Washington D.C. Convention Center Fly Fishing Retailer August 02, 2010 Fly-Fishing Retailer Show - Specialized Fair of Pesca with Fly.

Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, Denver - Colorado Convention Center National Hardware Show With Lawn & Garden World May 04, 2010

National Hardware Show - article Fair for the home of Fertile valleys.

Furniture and Decoration - the United States, the USA, the Fertile valleys - the Fertile valleys Convention Center Greater Rochester Home Show March 26, 2010

Greater Rochester Home Show - Fair of Remodeling, Renovation, Decoration, Rochester, the USA.

Cardboard Furniture

Cardboard Furniture
An example of what can be made with simple materials as cardboard.

Ecological furniture

Ecological furniture
The furniture serves the primordial purpose of giving a space the posibility of being used and also to decorate the home, all a novel and ample line of possibilities of furniture, decorative elements, products of designs exists that respect the environment and the importance of the ecological care.
We are talking here about the ecological furniture. The furniture designers who foment this type of design based their creations in the development of recyclable furniture or the construction of the same with recycled elements.

 So the ecological design world-wide current follows the call regulates of the R where the idea is to Reduce, to Reuse and to Recycle.
There exist an endless number of things in our home that modified, or reconstructed can be reused with other aims that is the objective of those who foments this line of decoration.
This business of ecological furniture began very exclusive being created by families of craftsmen who reclaimed furniture and they cheered up to begin to create, but already at the moment exist even multinational that develops to this line with the “green seal” which they look for to respond to the world-wide demands of this fashionable type of furniture, in this case the ecological furniture.
The materials used for the development of these designs of ecological furniture always have to be eco-frindly and the most widely used are the wood and the cardboard.
Other important factor in the construction of this ecological furniture are the process involved in the factories of this type of products, they have to be eco-frindly and the energies utilized have to be from renovable sources.

Outdoor Innovative Design

Outdoor Innovative Design
This one is a pretty design made totally in eco-frindly materials, and designed as a shelter for using outside your home in your garden. Its very comfortable and gives enough space for a couple to share those special moments.

The Bamboo Furniture of Simon Velez

Simon Velez is a colombian born architect that has been the pioneer in the Guadua Architechture in the world. (Guadua is the Colombian Bamboo). His designs haver been recognized by the architecture elite as one of the most innovative approachs to sustainable architecture.
He has been recognized by the colombian government by letting him design the colombian expo fro the world expo in 2008. And he has won the 2009 Prince Claus Prize Dutch award.
He has also designed some very innovative Bamboo and Wood furniture.

A video showing the work of this Colombian Architect.

Some links on Simon Velez:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_V%C3%A9lez
http://www.deboerarchitects.com/Page.html

How to Bend Bamboo

This is a video that show you how to bend the bamboo. Bamboo has been recognized as the new ecologic and innovative material for different kind of furniture.
The key to use bamboo in a variety of furniture is to be able to bend the material and adapt its form to the needs of the furniture design.
Learn how to easily bend bamboo in this video in which a Mexican craftsman show the exact technique to accomplish the bamboo bending.