Functional art is generally applied art – art created for use with an aesthetic in mind. Occupying that tenuous space between fine art and the everyday life, functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian purposes. The genre is remarkably inclusive. It encompasses everything from

Furniture giant IKEA is producing face masks and other protective gear for hospitals, joining a growing list of companies branching out of their normal business areas to help meet equipment shortages ...

The State of Qatar has sent two messages to the UN Secretary-General and to the President of the Security Council on a UAE military airliner flying from the airspace of the United Arab Emirates to the Kingdom of Bahrain, violating Qatar’s airspace at 10:10am on Wednesday, January 3, 2018.

Deutsche Telekom will buy the Dutch business of Sweden’s Tele2 and combine it with its T-Mobile Nederland to give it more muscle to challenge rivals KPN and Ziggo.

Pakistani authorities have extended for another 24 hours a deadline given to protesters blocking a major highway into the capital to disperse, officials said yesterday.

With Cambodia’s opposition warning of the imminent death of its democracy, the historic rival who once beat Prime Minister Hun Sen in an election said there was no option but to work with the strongman.

A trade delegation of 11 Turkish furniture manufacturers under the Kayseri Furniture Industrialists’ Association (Kaymos) umbrella will visit Doha from Saturday until October 3 ...

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Furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories shops in Doha are expecting good business throughout and beyond the Eid al-Adha holidays, it is learnt.

Jeanne Moreau, the quintessential French actress whose mother was an English cabaret club dancer, has died at 89. Moreau, a petite chain-smoker who worked with most of the world’s top directors of the first few decades after World War Two, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders among them.

Moving house? Don't let the train take the strain -- that's the message from Australian rail chiefs after publishing footage of passengers lugging furniture and fridges on busy commuter services.

There’s plenty of uncertainty about health policy in Washington, but on Wall Street, investors have a clear hunger for health stocks.