Cisco Brothers

Cisco Pinedo has become well known in the furniture industry as a leading designer of high quality upholstered furniture and unique casegoods.This is the story behind the man and his company, Cisco Brothers Corporation.
Born in a small rural town in Jalisco, Mexico, his family decided to leave the country in search of a better life. In the mid-seventies, Cisco found himself in South Central Los Angeles with the challenge of learning a new language and trying to fit in a new culture. He was only 13 years old.
In high school, Cisco discovered his passion for upholstery while working part-time in a small shop in Huntington Park. His job was to disassemble sofas, but Cisco quickly became fascinated by how each piece was put together.
His drive for knowledge helped Cisco find a job for an upholstery manufacturer. With his typical hard work and perseverance he soon learned how to run a business first hand. In his early twenties, he began making custom furniture for neighbors out of his garage in his South Central home. As his small enterprise began to grow, he and his wife, Alba recruited the help of their family members to help him run their thriving business. Cisco Brothers Corporation was born.
In a highly competitive, design-driven industry, Cisco Pinedo developed his furniture with superior craftsmanship, cutting-edge style, and unparalleled value. The closely-knit family atmosphere of the company nurtured uncommon client loyalty. After the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Cisco decided to remain in the heart of South Central. It was a risky business decision, but Cisco saw the need to revitalize his ailing childhood neighborhood. The move proved to be timely as the company continued to expand.
The success of Cisco Brothers has been a critical component in the redevelopment of the entire area surrounding the business while at the same time providing training programs and secure employment for many families in the vicinity. In 2006, Cisco developed the Inside Green™ method of construction and became the first designer to create 100% FSC Pure sustainable upholstered furniture. The company moved exclusively to FSC Pure certified woods on upholstered furniture, using reclaimed hardwoods for a collection of stunning case goods and the use of water based glues and environmentally friendly detergents to wash all fabrics.
Today, Cisco Home has six retail showrooms including a gallery at ABC Home Furnishings in NYC and the acclaimed LA Design Center in South Central Los Angeles.

 

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Charleston Forge

Susan and I started our business careers fresh out of college by opening a small retail fireplace shop in 1974 here in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

This picturesque community sits atop the highest mountains east of the Mississippi River, so cool summer breezes and cold snowy winters have attracted new home builders without a slowdown for more than seventy-five years a perfect setting for a fireplace shop.

We sold high-quality products and learned very early that there are people who truly recognize and appreciate the finer things in life. We offered delivery and installation service that the discount cash and carry stores couldn’t or wouldn’t do.

We learned to custom build handmade wrought iron fire screens, wood baskets, log racks and pot racks out of the tools that our maker gave us iron, fire, wood and passion.

Very quickly we had a growing, thriving business on our hands.

Word of our unique offerings spread throughout this land of mountain people, people who take pride in their work and deserve to be called artisans. We surrounded ourselves with these people and they helped us create more products.

In 1982 we started making furniture using the same natural elements of iron and wood, but added accents of brass, copper and glass& and the word continued to spread.

Today, Susan and I and our daughter, Jamie, and son, Brandon, who have both grown up in and now into our business, take great pride in the fact that our products, designed by, made by, sold by and serviced by more than 200 wonderful North Carolina mountain people are shipped throughout the world

Our products are offered to you through a network of highly qualified furniture stores, interior designers and sales agents.

 

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GB Roberts

Gary B. Roberts is an American designer. He designs furniture for the residential, contract, and institutional markets with the purpose of creating three dimensional art forms, while never comprising comfort and functionality. He has exhibited his designs at; The International Home Furnishings Show in High Point, Neo Con, the HD Show in Las Vegas, and imm cologne.

 

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Wood Furniture Website Features Vermont Woods Studios

Many thanks to the team of professionals at wood-furniture.biz for featuring Vermont Woods Studios eco-friendly furniture on their website this week. 

Wood-Furniture is an excellent website where you can find all kinds of news, information and advice about wood furniture.

I was interested to see an article on Wood-Furniture entitled “China Furniture Destroys Forests” as I had just written a blog entry about the same topic a few days ago. 

There is also an article about a hughe baby crib recall that I think many of our customers with young children would want to read.

Thanks again to the good folks at Wood-Furniture!

Mebelplast na Gali Samochód Roku Playboya 2009

Już po raz 16 w poniedziałkowy wieczór 15 czerwca odbyła się coroczna impreza organizowana przez redakcję Playboy podsumowująca plebiscyt na najnowocześniejsze i najbardziej luksusowe auta – Samochód Roku Playboya 2009.

Jury pod przewodnictwem Włodzimierza Zientarskiego w składzie: Krzysztof Hołowczyc, Andrzej Koper, Rafał Jemielita, Andrzej Borowczyk oraz Marcin Klimkowski, wyróżniło w trzynastu kategoriach trzynaście wyjątkowych samochodów .

SZCZĘŚLIWA 13:
AUTO Z SEKSEM: Renault Laguna Coupe
MOC WRAŻEŃ: Lexus IS-F
LUKSUS I SPORT: Porsche Pakamera
AUTO DLA BIZNESU: Skoda Super
AUTO LEGENDA: Land Rover Defender
AUTO DLA RODZINY PLAYBOYA: Opel Insignia SW
LUKSUS NA KAŻDĄ DROGĘ: Volvo XC60
AUTO DLA MŁODEGO PLAYBOYA: Seat Ibiza Cupra
AUTO DLA DZIEWCZYNY PLAYBOYA: Alfa Romeo MiTo
ZNAK CZASU: Kia Soul
STYL I PIĘKNO: Mazda MX-5
WYROŻNIENIE SPECJALNE: Suzuki GSX-R1000

Samochodem roku PLAYBOYA 2009 zostało BMW serii 7.

Galę poprowadzili Dorota Gardias i Bożydar Iwanow. Imprezie towarzyszył pokaz bielizny i biżuterii oraz taneczny show barmański w strefie ABSOLUT.

W specjalnie zaaranżowanej przez Livingroom by Mebelplast strefie goście mogli podziwiać najpiękniejsze Playmates. Livingroom by Mebelplast zaaranżował również strefę klubową podczas eventu. Sofy, wyeksponowane w strefie dla Playmates zostały przekazane gościom wylosowanym podczas Gali. Nagrodę wręczył Prezes Mebelplast Marek Kołakowski. Galę uświetniły swoją obecnością takie gwiazdy, jak Adam Fidusiewicz, Marek Kościkiewicz, Tomasz Iwan, Paweł Nastula, Grażyna Wolszczak, Cezary Harasimowicz, Wojtek Brzozowski, Tomasz Kammel, Szymon Majewski, Robert Kochanek, Maria Wałęsa, Omenaa Mensah, Iwona Pavlovic, Małgorzata Teodorska, Monika Mrozowska, Anna Samusionek, Stefan Friedman, Magda Gessler, Magda Wójcik, Rafał Bryndal, Odeta Moro, Michał Figurski, Ilona Felicjańska, Edyta Herbuś, Sylwia Gliwa, Karolina Borkowska, Ola Szwed, Lidia Popiel, Anna Korcz, Anna Popek.

Salony Livingroom by Mebelplast można spotkać niemalże na całym świecie. W Europie, w Stanach Zjednoczonych oraz w Dubaju funkcjonuje 40 salonów. Sieć salonów Livingroom by Mebelplast w Polsce obejmuje na chwilę obecną 17 salonów własnych i 9 partnerskich. Firma posiada najbogatszą ofertę mebli tapicerowanych w Polsce. Składają się na nią kolekcje modeli:
Lounge – lekkość, swoboda, fantazja
Residence – elegancja, prostota, wygoda
Country – tradycja komfort styl

Wysoką pozycję, jakość i prestiż marki MEBELPLAST potwierdza dodatek do Rzeczpospolitej „Marka dla najlepszych” – Ranking najcenniejszych Polskich Marek z dnia 10 grudnia 2008. W ubiegłorocznej, piątej edycji rankingu – w klasyfikacji głównej najbardziej wartościowych i najmocniejszych Marek, według wartości – ujęto 330 marek, wśród nich po raz pierwszy markę MEBELPLAST. I tak marka MEBELPLAST, wyceniona na 19,6 mln zł, uplasowała się na 36 pozycji w kategorii produktów niespożywczych.

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Draenert Studio

DRAENERT has designed and produced top-quality designer furniture in the tradition of a manu-factory for forty years. The main emphasis of the collection is on dining and coffee tables with patented extension-mechanisms, as well as chairs matching in form and style. Founded in 1968, the brand is representative since four decades for art and designer furniture, traditional craftsmanship, quality and first-class workmanship, exclusiveness and know-how. The aesthetic of the products orientates itself to-wards the international form language of the classic modernism. DRAENERT is a brand with a distinctive way they see themselves: International style paired with a strong regional consciousness. An intellectual rela-tionship to the collection is cultivated, which is reflected by the interaction of basic furniture and art. In the mean time, a legendary art collection exists, for which famous architects have designed models. These are in many international museums and collections, for instance the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This closeness to the arts allows the company to have visions for the development of new models. Due to the big sales success of chairs, the exclusive upholstery manufactory DRAENERT SWISS AG was founded in Switzerland. The future strategy lies in the development, as well as production of full programmes in the seating furniture area. In addition, the company is known as stone specialist with a huge stone collection. 200 natural stone types from all over the world in an own stone park invite to viewing and fascinate new customers every day.
The company, in the mean time managed by the second owner generation, Dr. Patric Draenert, ex-ports currently to over 30 countries. The cooperation with well-known designers like Werner Aisslinger and Prof. Wulf Schneider gave DRAENERT several awards up to the red dot “Best of the best”. In the autumn 2007, a new chapter in the company history was opened by the cooperation with Pog-genpohl – the most famous and renowned kitchen brand in the world. The trend of joining kitchen and living/dining area is taken account of by the so-called Dining Desk. A new future-orientated age has begun.

 

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Droog

Droog started in 1993, as a statement on design, a no-nonsense, down to earth design mentality opposed to the high style and form based world of design. In contrast, Droog proposed a highly conceptual approach, one captured by the Dutch word ‘droog’ meaning ‘dry’ or ‘wry’. This mentality has defined Droog as a conceptual design company over the last 16 years, and to a large extent, has defined Dutch design internationally.
Droog values what it means to be human, with subjectivity, notions of beauty and meaning, and desire for high quality experiences at its core. Droog stands for a luxury of content rather than luxurious materials. Whether it is authenticity, humour, slowness, affordability, or nature, the abundance of what is scarce has always been our luxury.
Droog at home is Amsterdam, home to our flagship store and office, including Factory & outlet, Creative agency and the Lab. From this base we operate worldwide with partners, clients, manufacturers and designers to develop products, projects, and presentations & events that change perspective on daily life, informed by the local context, yet in relation to urgencies on a global scale. Droog New York is more than a store; it is at the same time a gallery in which all items are for sale, including pieces of its interior, in custom shapes and materials for the home interiors of the United States and Canada. Droog also has a store in Tokyo, and distributes the Droog collection with partners in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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Borzalino

Our company was founded in 1976 out of the extensive artisan experience which has been gained by its owner and which has been evolved thanks to the collaboration with well known designers and use of advanced technology. The company currently expresses a unique combination of tradition and avantgarde techniques in its creation. The essence of each individual model lies in the balance achieved between constant research and innovation (with the use of technologically advanced structures) and fidelity to the ancient and precious heritage of artisan techniques. With the assistance of celebrated designers two collections has been created: the classic one, BORZALINO® with romantic shapes and wrapping lines, suitable also for young home and modern one, ATELIER MATTEO® with rich and elegant shapes as well as original technical solutions and valuable stitching. Collections in continual evolution that is always carried out utilising a production cycle that is carefully monitored by highly qualified personel throughot all its phases. The Quality of the product is guaranteed by a company Quality System, which is controlled and certified by means of company’s Certification of Conformity to UNI EN ISO 9001/2000. All the materials used in the realization of the products must be of high quality and in conformity to the CEE standards or to the regulations governing the country of exportation.

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MEBLE – TECZKI

 

Nie wiemy, czy Maarten De Ceulaer projektując nową linię mebli skórzanych dla Nilufar Gallery, wiedział coś o polskim piekiełku.

Te meble zbudowane z teczek aktowych z całą pewnością przypadną do gustu pewnym ludziom i instytucjom w Polsce.

Prezydent Najjaśniejszej Rzeczypospolitej, kupując jakiś zestaw, nareszcie będzie mógł rozszerzyć swoją krótką listę osób do wykończenia do niebotycznych rozmiarów. Może nawet uporządkować tę listę, skatalogować ją wg różnych kryteriów. Np. Janusza Palikota wykończymy dzisiaj,
Monikę Olejnik – później.

Prezes Kurtyka i IPN także zasmakują w funkcjonalności i wzornictwie tych mebli. Zawsze będą pod ręką materiały na niewygodnych przeciwników i materiały, które należy dołączyć, jako załączniki do krótkiej listy Prezydenta.

Dla Prezesa PIS-u, Jarosława Kaczyńskiego te meble mogą być prawdziwym skarbem. Szczególnie polecamy mu szafę teczkowo-kufrową, gdzie będzie przechowywał niezwykle obszerną dokumentację dotyczącą jego działalności opozycyjnej. Z całą pewnością zmieszczą się tam kopie wszystkich jego przesłuchań przez SB i dowody na jego wręcz heroiczną odporność na ból. Odporność większą, niż u 13-letniej dziewczynki przesłuchiwanej przez Gestapo.
Oczywiście jest tam standardowe miejsce na teczki kompromitujące jego przeciwników politycznych. A uzbiera się tego trochę – jakieś 80 % obywateli Polski i 100 % Niemców i Rosjan.
I kilku nudystów ze Świnoujścia, którzy nie chcą słuchać zakazów “oferowanych” przez PISowskich radnych.

Można podejrzewać, że i Zbigniew Ziobro też będzie fanatykiem tych mebli. Ile dyktafonów i urządzeń podsłuchujących można w nich schować.
Ponieważ autor projektu tych mebli mieszka w Brukseli, Ziobro kiedy zostanie Europosłem, może służyc doradztwem i podpowiedzieć projektantowi, w jaki sposób należy poprawić funkcjonalność tych mebli, aby lepiej sprzedawały się w Polsce.
Zbigniew Ziobro może również zapewnić skuteczną akwizycję i sprzedaż mebli wśród swoich kolegów.

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NAJDROŻSZE STOŁY DO BILARDA NA ŚWIECIE

Kiedy trzykrotny mistrz świata Vincent Facquet zdecydował się zbudować perfekcyjny stół do bilarda, należało się spodziewać, że będzie to coś spektakularnego i niespotykanego.

Vincent Facquet zaprojektował najkosztowniejsze stoły do bilarda na świecie !!!
Ceny tych stołów zaczynają się od około 180 000 dolarów USA.

Nogi stołu ozdobione są liśćmi z 18 karatowego złota. W bandach stołu znajdują się diamenty.
Stoły pokryte są najlepszej jakości suknem – Iwan Simonis 860 Professional.

 

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