1.   A furniture showroom may be the best place to buy a sofa bed, but perhaps it is not the ideal setting in which to sell serious antiques.

2.   Across the street, a couple stared at an Eames lounge chair inside the Gansevoort Gallery, a designer furniture showroom almost camouflaged among the ramshackle warehouses.

3.   Eisenman said he would not normally do a project like a furniture showroom.

4.   Last May, he was designing two apartments when he returned home from a long day spent in the maze of furniture showrooms.

5.   Seagrove has long been a bit of a secret among ceramics lovers, decorators visiting the nearby High Point furniture showrooms and spouses of golfers playing at neighboring Pinehurst.

6.   Shoppers can pick colors ranging from coral to plum along with the blacks, beiges and dark greens that seem to dominate furniture showrooms.

7.   So far, Room, the smallest of the furniture showrooms, is making the biggest splash.

8.   Starwood, which includes the Sheraton and Westin Hotel chains, plans to establish a regional reservation center at the former La-Z-Boy furniture showroom.

9.   Somehow, this mess is mysteriously absent from photographs of computer stations in catalogs, and wires never snake along the rugs or dangle from desks in furniture showrooms.

10.   Starwood, which includes the Sheraton and Westin Hotel chains, plans to establish a regional reservation center at a former La-Z-Boy furniture showroom.