11.   Furniture designer Ransom Culler may have reined in his oversize sofas at Thayer Coggin, but he knew no boundaries when it came to beds.

12.   Furniture designers like Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, Jens Risom and Finn Juhl.

13.   Handler was a stenographer at Paramount Pictures before she and her husband Elliot, a furniture designer and art student, created the Barbie doll.

14.   He was an architect and a furniture designer as well.

15.   In a nod to the architect Frank Gehry, Joel Stearns, a furniture designer in Venice, Calif., transforms cardboard once again into chairs.

16.   In response, furniture designers are mixing materials within pieces -- leather inserts in the tops of wooden desks, steel legs on wicker chairs -- for interesting textures.

17.   It was Ms. Eisner who introduced him to Roy McMakin, a furniture designer who designed the office furniture for the new Getty Museum.

18.   Jackson, the furniture designer and former magician, uses theatrical scrims set in brushed aluminum frames to manipulate light.

19.   Lives in suburban Brookline with his wife, Frances Diemoz, a furniture designer and maker, and their two teenage children.

20.   Neda Nickzad, a furniture designer, has also felt the forces of nature.