| The normal Amish furniture shows is typically mundane | | | | various demonstrative angles but with peaceful taste. |
| and routine, but this year's show in Ohio was a | | | | A complete office desk hutch and workstation with a |
| shocker. It broke with previous expectations and flung | | | | new configuration I have yet to see. The surprising |
| forth radical new designs and needed innovative new | | | | thing was I thought that it would not be functional in |
| products. Some Amish furniture manufacturers are | | | | any way and asked if I could sit at this desk. I did sit |
| now very Design & Style Conscious and it not only | | | | and it was even more functional than any current |
| welcomed by critical to their existence. | | | | design on the market today. This piece requires a |
| Our expectation of our visiting the Ohio Furniture show | | | | larger space, but for the home office environment, it is |
| in Dalton Ohio was to be one of visiting my current | | | | perfection or for that executive with a extra large |
| builders and get updated price lists. The balance of our | | | | office. |
| time was to be spent visiting different venues around | | | | A wonderful assortment of executive leather desk |
| the beautiful hilly countryside in Ohio Maybe even take | | | | chairs as produced by other large corporations, but |
| a day and pay to work on an Amish farm. It was to | | | | each chair is of their own design and wonderfully |
| be a vacation and not work involved. | | | | crafted. These chairs have attorney offices written all |
| The first shock was that some did not increase their | | | | over them or for that dynamic officer for a company. I |
| pricing, and then came the new designs and styling. | | | | bought one for my office and it is mine. |
| I was in shock. Being a member of the Chicago | | | | Finally, some Amish builder has stepped up to the plate |
| chapter of ASID or American Society of Interior | | | | and has focused on kitchen table and chairs. They are |
| Designers, we do a lot of work with interior designers. I | | | | tastefully done for the apartment, condo, second home |
| even entered an Interior Design show last year and | | | | market that everyone runs away from and now we |
| won. Our company participates in special shows that | | | | have the start of a small selection and one table has |
| present our Amish furniture and furnishings to Interior | | | | an internally attached leave that comes out from the |
| Designers only and this affair takes place at the | | | | end for extra space and so very simple to operate. |
| Merchandize Mart in Chicago. I now see so many | | | | I thought the day would never come but twice in one |
| innovative and design forward products that one | | | | day where there was new builders making fabric and |
| would think were created at an exclusive high end | | | | leather couches, sofas, love seats and living or family |
| furniture art studio and cannot wait for the showing. | | | | room chairs. This upholstered furniture was very |
| One of the most amazing pieces I saw was that or a | | | | exciting to see that the family and living room now has |
| tree trunk table with a large tree section serving as its | | | | Amish attention and craftsmanship. The styling is |
| top taken to a very high gloss accenting the real | | | | simple but built for comfort. The style comes with the |
| character of the wood. It was like being at Market. | | | | fabric or leather. |
| One chair had so much detail in it with a Renascence | | | | While a lot of products are being made overseas, a |
| or Old World look accompanied with leather seats that | | | | resurgence of home made products is coming back |
| would fit into a castle like home or office or service as | | | | into the market. It is on a small scale and will never be |
| a stunning dining chairs with the right table. | | | | large, because the Amish are not real manufacturers, |
| A new end, sofa and coffee table with a radical "Z" | | | | they are builders. Their goal in life is to create products |
| design was one piece I just stared at for the longest | | | | that sell so that they can worship their God, feed their |
| time of which I took a picture with permission. The | | | | families and be a productive part of their community |
| piece is mesmerizing with the simplicity of design with | | | | by employing others that are close to them. |