Michael designed a series of furniture lines, which have been manufactured and distributed by Powell.

One of his furniture lines recalls the great steamships between the wars.

"You got anything valuable in the furniture line yourself, sir?"

The one bright spot in products has been a new furniture line the company says is selling well.

The firm's 26-piece furniture line includes one mobile piece, a bed.

In 1983 the company began offering a furniture line that now accounts for 25 percent of its business.

Wright designed a succession of popular furniture lines for many furniture companies beginning in the early 1930s through the 1950s.

And you have to minimize your space and not put in the full furniture line.

The response to a furniture line bearing her name had been "extremely encouraging," she added.

Hutton hopes the company will eventually offer this alternative construction for its entire furniture line.