His company, Smart Furniture, takes orders over the Internet for semicustomized office and home furniture.

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It rents and sells residential and office furniture, consumer electronics and home appliances.

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Out for the visitor to look at (but not to sit on, alas) are Maloof's first sofa and some early chairs flagrantly Danish in inspiration, but lithe and lovely in walnut, maple and the occasional exotic hardwood and the prototype home-office furniture he fashioned for industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss.

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Martinez, who has been working from home for five months, says he purchased most of his office furniture and accessories at deep discounts on craigslist.

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