Latimer Furniture

Located in Chicago, Latimer Furniture is a furniture store presenting an eclectic collection of handmade and found objects. Its offerings include kites, fake postage stamps, memory jugs, mono-prints, assemblage, kinetic objects, sculpture, collage, drawings, and paintings. The works incorporate discarded, stolen, found, and purchased materials, with pieces made through hammering, gluing, stapling, photographing, pressing, staining, screwing, drawing, or copying. Objects and images are offered for perusal. The business is associated with Michael Thompson and is located at 319 N. Albany Ave. in Chicago. Its collection spans functional-looking constructions and art objects, rather than a stated selection of conventional bedroom, dining, living room, mattress, or office furnishings.