YOUR PLACE TABLE TABLEAUX FURNITURE MAKERS PREVIEW THEIR LATEST WARES.Byline: - Daily News Twice a year, furniture manufacturers roll out new designs and take them to High Point, N.C., for the International Home Furnishings Market, where retailers and designers browse and place their orders. Designs that garner enough orders following the recent spring show will begin appearing on showroom floors later this summer. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , manufacturers are flooding press mail boxes with images and information about their latest creations. We picked a few of our favorites to share with our readers. Cut them out and see how they'd look in your house! SHRUB shrub, any woody, perennial, bushy plant that branches into several stems or trunks at the base and is smaller than a tree. Shrubs are an important feature of permanent landscape planting, being used for formal decorative groups, hedges, screens, and background TALK: Armstrong Garden Centers will conduct a workshop on how to use shrubs to create a pleasing landscape today and May 26 at 9 a.m. The free class is fast-paced and attendees will have a chance to win door prizes. To find the Armstrong Garden Center nearest you, call (800) 557-5268. - Daily News BOOKS BATH BASICS: If you dream of the perfect bathroom, let ``Waterworks waterworks: see water supply. : Inventing Bath Style'' (Clarkson Potter; $35) stoke stoke n. A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per milliliter. stoke your imagination. The book is written by Barbara Sallick, co-founder of Waterworks, a leading chain of retail bath stores. It features beautiful images of bathroom styles and details as well as practical advice on choosing the right materials for your bath. It's not a do-it-yourself book, but rather a primer on the elements of the bath from the essentials (tub, shower and toilet) to fixtures to material (stone, ceramic, metal, glass). Combine the elements you like, and with some professional help you could create your own lasting oasis. - Elizabeth Smilor FROM THE GARDEN BOUNTY bounty, payment made by a government bounty, amount paid by a government for the achievement of certain economic or other goals. It often takes the form of a premium paid for the increased production or export of certain goods. OF BULBS: TulipWorld.com is the ultimate online resource for gardeners who love bulbs. The Dutch site, which was recently awarded the Quill quill: see pen. & Trowel Award for electronic media from the Garden Writers Association of America, is colorful, informative and interactive. Helpful features on www.tulipworld.com include the bulb and style advisers where users can enter the color, style and climate of their desired garden and the ``adviser'' suggests certain bulbs. Also handy is the bulb encyclopedia that lists bulb types and how to grow them. If you're not sure where to start on the site, go to ``Inspire me'' to view a lovely array of garden styles. Once you know what you want, you can order the Dutch bulbs via the site and they're guaranteed to arrive undamaged (spring bulbs are shipped in September and summer ones in March). - E.S. CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1) MODERN LOUNGER: Urbana's red Flying Carpet Chaise by Hank Wu is perfect for the hip genie genie: see jinni. An online information and bulletin board service that closed its doors at the end of 1999, much to the dismay of its many users, some of whom were still chatting when the plug was pulled. . (2) SIMPLE ACCENT: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of interior designer Bill Sofield has put his name on a new line of furniture introduced by Baker. It includes this Tusk Table. (3) ASIAN-INSPIRED: Thomasville's Visaya collection features this woven banana bark cocktail table complete with a pair of removable wooden trays. (4) FRENCH DREAMS: Milling Road's new collection includes this 19th-century-style bed made of flormorado, a South American elm elm, common name for the Ulmaceae, a family of trees and shrubs chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere. Elm trees (genus Ulmus) have a limited use as hardwoods for timber, especially the rock or cork elm (U. thomasi). . (5) no caption (Bookcover: ``Waterworks: Inventing Bath Style'') (6) no caption (tulips) |
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