SUMMIT — Gino Simonetti of Chatham, a volunteer in the Furniture Restoration Workshop at SAGE Eldercare, is the SAGE April Volunteer of the Month. Simonetti came to SAGE 14 years ago after retiring ...

STAMFORD — Mark DeVito is a craftsman with deep roots in the early 20th century heyday of Stamford’s furniture industry, when its skilled carpenters, upholsterers and designers produced some of the ...

Everyday living has a way of inflicting harm on furniture – for instance, water damage, pets chewing or scratching the wood, something being dropped during a move, or maybe your kid decided to carve ...

They can be restored, recovered, repurposed and more. You can also use these techniques to customize new furniture. Reupholstering a vintage chair with a new pattern, like this piece by Double R ...

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With a little work, some stain, and a respirator, that old dresser in the basement can earn its way back upstairs. Go to any antique or vintage furniture store and there's bound to be a well-made, ...

Even for Jeffrey Arnstein, a nationally prominent figure in Early American antique furniture restoration and conservation, it was all but asking for the impossible. In the summer of 2002, an errant ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Isle of Man had few museums to showcase venerable old chattels when antique furniture restorer Timothy Garland ...

Mark DeVito is a craftsman with deep roots in the early 20th century heyday of Stamford’s furniture industry, when its skilled carpenters, upholsterers and designers produced some of the finest pieces ...