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I have tried all these apps in my pipeline, and coming prior from CAD user perspective, I would think the furnature would be best skinned with carved venieer strips with a NURBS app such as MoI3D or Rhino3d. Even Alibre Design would be fine.  SubD isnt needed for hard, non-deformable surfaces and you will easire time replicating intricate design carvbings along the surface, maintaing consistant depth. This way you could scale it, 3D print it or even send it to your CNC router for the real thing.    In Z-Brush you could scratch along teh surface, maybe use a spline to control pattern path.  Beter yet, stamp an impression.  Still it would be harder to make IMO than a design package were po.s & dim. values and ratios can be maintained as you go along the surface.

With regard to character figure modeling, and re-topo work high resolution meshesl work (for game development?) I tried 3D coat first (OK by hand, kind of cumbersome,auto reto didnt produce decent results though and needed total rework on my complex and under tucked samples)   then Topogun (Much better to pick up, nimble and rather intuitive. Could actually be fun but then you get out of hand..).  But now days I model in Z-Brush.  It was the game changer for me, as it has phenominal modeling and painting capabilities. Works great with Poser if you get the mesh subttool grouping export process down  to keep mesh from tearing... (? me if you get stuck w/ that).  

ZB was a major investment in time and effort learning but its a joy when you get the hang of it.  Expend to spend lots of time staring at the interface....wondering WHY.   Also in the freetrial period, like an autodesk product - you will never break ice and warm up before you cant save anymore and need to decide.  Its heck of a bullet to bite.  And just when you get the current version down, another one is out.  ZBrush is a rapid development team for sure.  

oh today I posted lots of 3D game development stuff that you may be interested in at farmpeeps.com  Terrains, skyboxes and even a 3D demo game using hardware acceleated Flash Stage3  technology.  Link attached

Good luck Toxic Wolf and happy modeling...