Furniture on television

I used work in the furniture industry and have noticed an increase in television programs using classic furniture from last century in their sets. Most notably on the shows like Mad Men , but I have also noticed a Florence Knoll sofa on Surprise, Surprise (the revised version which aired last year).

I have also come across a website dedicated to classic furniture on screen- http://featuredfurniture.tv/ .

But I can not, for the life of me, think of any furniture-focused television on any channel. Within the furniture community, I know there is a definite audience awaiting a show about classic furniture designs.

Can anyone think of any furniture-focused TV shows (excluding antiques)? Why do you think there is a lack of TV like this?

Antiques Road Show?

12 years I've been posting on this site. This is the most bizarre request I've ever come across.

I worked for a couple of years in a business where the aesthetics of the office were considered extremely important; and we had a designer who came up with various schemes for the site.

We had the white boardroom table as used in The Apprentice, the white leather Eames chairs that I saw on X Factor (and a million TV ads besides), and if we had agreed to it, we'd also have some big bucket chair I had seen on an earlier series of Big Brother.

It was amazing to me that I'd never really conciously noticed fashionable pieces of furniture being used again and again on TV in programmes and ads - but once I'd been chatting to a designer about them I spotted them all the time. I also became aware of how much they cost.

Bit of a niche thing though, really. Perhaps you should write in to Home and pitch it as an idea.

I think they were Egg chairs that were used in BB

I used to like this programme when I was younger but I now have no memory of the programme at all apart from the basic premise and the fact that I liked it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helping_Henry

It featured a chair, if that is any help.

Wasn't there a DIY type show maybe Grampian? which did a week buy week guide to building your own Furniture?:

I can remember Helping Henry- I think it has been repeated on more than one occasion.

Grampian not so much. Any idea when it aired?

These days, maybe not so much, but there used to be DIY programmes and docu series on this.

One of the latter was The Story of English Furniture - a sort of Antiques Roadshow spin-off (I know, but still) - shown on the BBC in the 70s and 80s (ISTR, repeated on BBC 2 during the T W O era)...

...And I see it was released on BBC Video, in two volumes - but looks like you'd have to track down a used copy from someone who is selling if you're interested.

The New Yankee Workshop (on various of Discovery's channels over the years) would probably have fitted the bill - frequently looking at an old piece of furniture and trying to make a modern replica.

We may have found the only person who looks forward to the DFS adverts.

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