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Advantages of buying Plastic furniture
Plastic furniture is usually associated with brightly colored kiddie chairs or extra tables that are brought in for a church event. People don't normally think of plastic when they're furnishing their homes, but this mindset is starting to change. Many new stylish and...
Australian Consumer Law To Influence Importers and Educators by Simona Jobbagy, Head of Department, Design, Media and ICT, Swinburne University
The increased number of domestic and commercial furniture imports in the past few years has been a game changer for Australian furniture manufacturers and designers. With loose furniture being imported cheaply from China, local manufacturers and furniture designers...
Chinese Move to Certification of Wood Products
The Chinese government is moving to sustainable forest certification of wood products, both harvested at home and imported from other countries, officials told a conference on illegal logging in Beijing recently. That includes a crackdown on countries that don't have...
Exporters can now ship 7000 products with less tariffs to preferential partners.
Further tariff cuts on more than 7000 Australian products have come into effect, creating more business opportunities for Australian exporters.These wide-ranging tariff cuts – agreed as part of Australia’s Free Trade Agreements with China and Korea – came into...
Axolotl Art Project
AFA Member and AFA partners, Axolotl, are also involved with art installations. As "Axolotl Art Projects" they were recently commissioned to produce this intricate glass artwork, drawn by eminent Chinese pop artist Jacky Tsai. The piece is on its way to be installed...
Dezeens favourite chairs from 2016
Dezeens favourite chairs from 2016 Designers are always reinventing the chair, and 2016 was no different. Deputy Editor Rima Sabina Aouf from Dezeen shares her favourites, including seats inspired by comics, a granite throne and a chair with its own micro-climate. To...
Australian design furniture with class!
Last week AFA Member Workspace gave us a sneak peak at their latest in-house designed timber family called, A-Series. A table and chair range that embodies quality Australian design and craftsmanship https://www.workspace.com.au/
It’s a car wreck
Studio Job, led by designers Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, is known for its fantastical and often autobiographical pieces.They have expanded on their autobiographical Train Crash table with a coffee table version depicting a burning car. The Car Crash coffee table was...
Vale – Wolfgang Schubert (Jan 2017) and Sonja Schubert (Nov 2016)
On behalf of the AFA Board, Management and Members, we observe the sad passings of Wolfgang Schubert, founder of Burgtec Australasia Pty Ltd, who passed way on 9 January, and of Sonja, his beloved wife of 62 years, 9 weeks earlier, on 6 November. Wolfgang and...
Business confidence surges to highest level in past six years
Business confidence among SMEs is now sitting at its highest level since March 2010, following an eight point rise to +46 on a net basis, according to the latest Sensis Business Index (SBI)* survey.Sensis Chief Executive Officer, John Allan said, “Businesses closed...