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Show 'Fascinating' New Furniture Made in Wide Style Range More new "fascinating" furniture furni-ture styles than ever before are now available to grace American homes, in the opinion of a man with more than 40 years of experience ex-perience in the home furnishings industry. "At no time do I remember when there has been such a great number of new developments," says C. "Rod" Cook, of Chicago, an independent consultant in furniture fur-niture design and maketing. "Values "Val-ues are high, styling is excellent, and finishes are especially attractive. attrac-tive. "There isn't a home in America that doesn't need some new furniture, fur-niture, and if all of the potential customers, particularly women, would see the new pieces, with their beautiful wood veneers emphasizing em-phasizing real wood grain figure, factories would be bumming." Mr. Cook says intermediate-priced intermediate-priced lines are "receiving the most attention" within the in1 try. Furniture manufacturers" explains, realize that aisle want lower-priced furniture f "good standard of quality," "Coordinated" or "correlit; groups are a major trend it:-sign, it:-sign, the consultant says. E group consists of a large niir.:. of similarly styled pieces, pert .0 .o 20. Because these are soli: dividually, a customer can ci: exactly the ones he needs. The distinctive grain figure hardwood veneer are respons: for much of the coordic among pieces in a group. For : ample, if a "broken stripe" f;. is selected, repetition of this:, ure in all pieces gives highly; sirable continuity of appear;:. When wood veneers are :. the pieces are kept in the a: order that they grew in the liv: tree. This permits sheets of vu: to be matched with each other |