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Madinaty (Arabic: مدينتى Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:, "My City") is an 8000 acre real estate development project, in the New Cairo satellite city, [1] in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. [ 2 ]
Groupe Habitat is an international chain of stores of British origin created by Sir Terence Conran in 1973, which specialises in the sale of furniture and contemporary decorative accessories. In September 2011 it was purchased by the French group Cafom SA distribution, [ 1 ] who sold it to the industrialist Thierry Le Guénic in October 2020.
Maisons du Monde (French pronunciation: [mɛzõ dy mõd(ə)], Houses of the world) is a French furniture and home decor company founded in Brest in 1996 by Xavier Marie. At the end of 2015, it had nearly 250 stores across France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, and in Switzerland, of which more than 180 are in France.
Secrétaire à abattant by Jean-François Leleu, Paris, ca 1770 (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris). French furniture comprises both the most sophisticated furniture made in Paris for king and court, aristocrats and rich upper bourgeoisie, on the one hand, and French provincial furniture made in the provincial cities and towns many of which, like Lyon and Liège, retained cultural identities ...
This is a list of furniture types. Furniture can be free-standing or built-in to a building. [1] They typically include pieces such as chairs, tables, storage units, and desks. [1] These objects are usually kept in a house or other building to make it suitable or comfortable for living or working in.
Grange Furniture is a furniture shop in Monts du Lyonnais, France that was established by Joseph Grange in 1904. [1] The company continues to produce heirlooms using "old-world techniques" such as dove-tail jointing , hand applied wood stain and lacquer . [ 1 ]
The BUT brand was created in 1972 by André Venturini in Le Havre, France. With his son Michel, he rapidly expanded his network by using franchising. In 1982, there were 140 BUT stores, and in 2015, 280. In 1987, Carrefour became a major shareholder of BUT; it sold its shares in 1993.