11.   At the same time, the better-known designer Laura Ashley was on the scene, designing similar floral-print dresses and home furnishings.

12.   At TJX, the goal is to pile up brand-name clothes and home furnishings in big low-rent stores.

13.   Babette Holland, a home furnishings designer in TriBeCa, named her menorah, with an industrial feel to its angled branches, for her grandfather.

14.   Blackwell also owns and operates home furnishings and clothing stores on Ocean Drive, under the name Island Trading.

15.   Both are available at home furnishing and discount stores, including Lechters Housewares, Target and Wal-Mart.

16.   - From a Tatler story about home furnishings designers Ria and Yiouri Augousti, whose chatchkes are in the homes of Cher, Boris Becker and Sophie Marceau.

17.   A fabric warehouse stacked with wonderful home furnishings fabrics, many from well-known mills.

18.   A few weeks ago, the giant home furnishings chain created a stir in Milan as it entered the arena of cutting-edge design.

19.   A few storefronts down is Delaware River Trading Co., a purveyor of rural-chic garden and home furnishings, as well as a few peculiar antiques.

20.   A new consciousness about home furnishing is germinating in many Chinese cities, and it is growing out of the surging popularity of buying a home itself.