1.   The tables and chairs were made by the furniture designer Robert White.

2.   Although Lawson spent his entire career in the auto industry, his training was as a furniture designer.

3.   Antonio Da Motta and Rolando Niella, furniture designers in New York, love semiprecious stones and minerals like onyx, calcite and dolomite.

4.   A Generation Y furniture designer said he was impressed by Coupland.

5.   Acton and her husband, furniture designer Hugh Acton, were her nextdoor neighbors while growing up in Birmingham, Mich.

6.   Chalayan often works with Michael Anastatiades, a London furniture designer, and Jane Howe, an Englishwoman who has styled his shows for several seasons now.

7.   Evelyn Jablow, a widely known decorator and furniture designer, died on Sunday at her weekend home in Delhi, N.Y.

8.   Furniture designers and the automotive industry plan to use them soon in place of their usual mechanical models because the images can be transported easily and cheaply.

9.   Furniture designers are manufacturing chairs with luminescent webbing.

10.   Further explosive growth seems likely for specialty stores unless the economy tanks badly, said John Francis, a furniture designer and owner of Unique Furniture Options in Westport.