EXHIBITION OF FURNITURE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27277, 18 February 1954, Page 2

EXHIBITION OF FURNITURE

Use Of Electronics By Manufacturers

EARL’S COURT DISPLAY

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 17. Space-saving and dual-purpose articles are the main feature of this year’s furniture exhibition at Earl’s Court. The emphasis is on mass-produced furniture from factories where electronic methods of construction are used. coupled with mechanical handling which cuts the price. Timber, for instance, the warping of which causes jammed drawers and doors that will not shut, can now be “seasoned” in about two weeks. The complicated “bowed front” of an expensive looking dressing table can be produced by resin bonding and radio-frequency heating in a few minutes. Furniture experts say the modern articles may well outlast costly antiques. Among the articles of contemporary furniture are a cocktail cabinet which rises from the centre of a circular table or at the back of a sideboard when a buttoq is pressed, a table with a centrepiece which rises two feet to disclose two storage shelves, and a sideboard, with all its cupboards and drawers in its sides, which lifts up to make a table for four. There are other cupboards at the back for storing chairs.