Baker

Harden, Hickory White

Anonymous wrote:MG&BW. We also have some stuff we bought at Greenfront that has held up really nicely. It's classic stuff and we'll probably have it forever.

I have a MG&BW sofa and I really love it. However, their customer service out of the 14th St location was ATROCIOUS. Unresponsive, inexplicably dropped items off of our order, extreme difficulty in providing accurate delivery information. I presume that is not the normal experience, but man. It was frustrating.

Room & Board

How much money do you have? Mind spending $7k-10k on a sofa or $3000 on a bar stool? I could name brands/manufacturers but without knowing a budget or style it's difficult to say who makes "good" furniture for your lifestyle.

Anonymous wrote:MG&BW. We also have some stuff we bought at Greenfront that has held up really nicely. It's classic stuff and we'll probably have it forever.

Is their leather real or bonded? Will it peel?

MG&BW. We also have some stuff we bought at Greenfront that has held up really nicely. It's classic stuff and we'll probably have it forever.

Anonymous wrote:Ethan Allen

My Ethan Allen stuff is literally falling apart and it is only a few years old. It used to be great quality, but I think that has changed significantly.

Anonymous wrote:It's better to define first what style you want, and then go find good furniture brands that sell the style of furniture you want.

Having recently moved and filled a 10,000 sqft home with furniture, I find that it is much more about style and construction, than brand. Some of the so called great brands make some pretty awful looking stuff. Sure it my be built well and last for centuries, but it will look ugly doing so. We have a couple of large pieces that are obviously made by cheap Chinese factories but they are *exactly* the style that we were after. These are mostly "display pieces", like book cases filled with books we would never read, trinkets, etc; so it doesn't really matter that they are not built like tank.

I really don't understand why people do this. Your house should be a reflection of you. Trinkets and books you'll never read, & otherwise filling your house with furniture for the sake of filling it up is really beyond me.

It's better to define first what style you want, and then go find good furniture brands that sell the style of furniture you want.

Having recently moved and filled a 10,000 sqft home with furniture, I find that it is much more about style and construction, than brand. Some of the so called great brands make some pretty awful looking stuff. Sure it my be built well and last for centuries, but it will look ugly doing so. We have a couple of large pieces that are obviously made by cheap Chinese factories but they are *exactly* the style that we were after. These are mostly "display pieces", like book cases filled with books we would never read, trinkets, etc; so it doesn't really matter that they are not built like tank.

what are some good places to shop locally?

Stickley

American Leather, Bernhardt, Bolier, Brown Jordan, Charleston Forge, C.R. Laine, Drexel Heritage, Four Hands, Gabby, Henredon, Hickory Chair, Lee Industries, Lexington, Lillian August, Lorts, MacKenzie Childs, Michael Aram, Mr. + Mrs. Howard, Redford House, Sarreid, Tritterfeefer, Vanguard, Wesley Hall, Mitchell Gold

Ethan Allen

I have some items from Bernhardt and Hancock and Moore that still look great. What quality brands are there that you'd recommend for nice furniture?