1.   As a standard-bearer of backyard tiki-kitsch, bamboo furniture and accessories hit a popularity peak after World War II.

2.   Bamboo furniture and accessories come and go, but it never completely goes away.

3.   Each piece of latticework on the bamboo furniture is carved with little pins and slots that function like mortise and tenon joinery.

4.   Hampton provided the guest bedroom with a new carpet and fake bamboo furniture.

5.   Most of the early bamboo furniture has not survived.

6.   Recently, both Martha Stewart Living and Traditional Home magazine published features on collecting antique bamboo furniture.

7.   She also collects Chinese bamboo furniture.

8.   When Lipton began buying bamboo furniture in Beijing he was reminded of an encounter he had had with an old Chinese furniture maker in Thailand.

9.   When William Lipton talks about Chinese bamboo furniture, he sounds more like a philosopher than a merchant.

10.   Still, industry observers say that the domestic market for bamboo furniture and other end products looks good.