The Fun is Back in Furniture!

The design world is in Milan for the annual iSalone jamboree, the big Italian fair where designers show off the latest trends -- the stuff they want stores to sell us this year. It's the time when the design-savvy learn whether home furnishing goes "back to Baroque" or if the "impersonal industrial" will rule what we buy.

Because nobody invited me to Italy I'm relying on reports filtered through a haze of long dinners and all-night parties being enjoyed by others, to see what might be in our living rooms in the year to come.