(ContentDesk) February 24, 2004--The exclusive custom-furniture maker, Pollaro Custom Furniture, which has crafted fine pieces for Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Carole Bayer-Sager, Clive Davis and other celebrities, was selected as an honored participant in the 76th Annual Academy Awards? Gift Baskets.The Gift Baskets are given to the presenters, performers and other special guests at the Academy Awards? ceremony, which will be held on Sunday, February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. For a list of presenters and performers consult the official Academy Awards? website
www.oscars.org/76academyawards/presenters_performers.html .Pollaro Custom Furniture is presenting a $5,000 gift certificate that will be accompanied by a handsome 8-page brochure specially printed on the occasion of the 76th Academy Awards?. The certificate can be used toward the commission of a custom piece of furniture from the Pollaro workshop, which is based in New Jersey. Pollaro has built and shipped furniture to discriminating clientele around the world. Academy Awards? gift baskets contain a selective array of merchandise, such as jewelry and fashion accessories, cameras and chocolates, and certificates for spa treatments and, this year, a custom piece of furniture.
Pollaro Custom Furniture produces hand-crafted museum-quality furniture, cabinetry and architectural woodwork. The workshop, founded by Frank Pollaro in 1988, has built a solid reputation for creating complex veneered and inlaid furniture among noted architects and interior designers, including Peter Marino, Charles Gwathmey, Harry Schnaper and Michael LaRocca, private residential clients and corporations worldwide. Pollaro created the elaborate marquetry reception desk for the headquarters of Jim Henson Productions in New York using 90 species of wood veneer to create three scenes featuring Muppets characters in action.With more than 400 projects completed in the past 15 years, Pollaro has designed and built wood-paneled offices, bedroom sets and entire suites of furniture, in addition to tables, chairs, sideboards, desks, cabinets and other single pieces of furniture as commissioned by clients. Much of Pollaro's work, which often is in the Art Deco style, incorporates exotic wood veneers; inlays of gold, silver, mother of pearl, precious stones and antique ivory; and such rare materials as shagreen, parchment and vellum.In November 2001, HGTV's Modern Masters featured Frank Pollaro for his designs and woodworking skills. Architectural Digest, House & Garden, Elle D?cor and numerous other publications have written about Pollaro's work.
There is an article about him in the March 2004 issue of Architectural Digest that is currently on the newsstands.For more information about and a portfolio of Pollaro Custom Furniture, go to www.pollaro.com. Pollaro Custom Furniture?????????Frank Pollaro????????????????????
973-675-7557Media contactTamar Mahshigian310-276-5001.
My Room by My Gym Introduces Fine Children's Furniture to Last a Lifetime
(ContentDesk) October 23, 2005 -- My Room by My Gym is a furniture line built around the concept of providing children with exquisitely crafted furniture made with the highest standards and scaled down to fit a childs environment.
This concept is the result of a collaboration between My Gym, the leader in childrens fitness and Vastarea Designs, who has been responsible for creating distinguished furniture for retailers such as Crate & Barrel, Williams-Sonoma and Restoration Hardware.Childrens fitness is more than just physical; it is emotional and intellectual as well.
This is the reason My Room by My Gym decided to produce natural hardwood furniture with rich finishes, classic timeless shapes and accessible sizes rather than trendy, brightly colored, temporary furniture, emblazoned with characters, that will be appreciated only about as long as the latest toy.We believe that beautiful, well-built furniture made from real wood in aesthetic designs will not only add...
Bedroom Furniture
The bedroom is your private haven, a space that belongs just to you, where you can be on your own and relax after a tiring day. Thus, it becomes important that everything about your bedroom, including the Bedroom Furniture, should be chosen with utmost care so that it accentuates style and enhances your comfort.
Bedroom Furniture should be designed keeping in mind the profile of the person living in the bedroom. That will, in fact, largely determine the type of furniture that is going to be a part of the room. For a newlywed couple the furniture should be in soft and pastel shades radiating the warmth of love.
For children the furniture should reflect a naughty streak on the outside and feature durability on the inside. The beds for children also include bunk beds. The youngsters need space for the storage of books as well as CDs; thus, their furniture should be made accordingly. You can also choose different bed sets, bed frames and more. Some people don't...
Bedroom Furniture
Online Furniture Store Great Priced Furniture.com Inc. To Expand its North Carolina Furniture Facilities
Online furniture store GreatPricedFurniture.com, has purchased a 17 acre property in Wilmington, near the city's Port Authority as part of a major expansion program. The facility includes a 15,000 sq. ft. administration building which will combine office and furniture display areas. The development will also incorporate a planned 35,000 sq ft warehouse to supplement the current warehouse facility.
One of the early pioneers of online furniture stores, Great Priced Furniture has achieved an average annual sales revenue growth of 126% since 1999 and is now North Carolina's largest Internet furniture retailer. Company President, Fred Rose said "We're based here in North Carolina, the International furniture capital of the world and our sales growth has reached the point where we needed a larger, integrated facility. We have always placed a great emphasis on systems efficiency and our...
Online Furniture Store Great Priced Furniture.com Inc. To Expand its North Carolina Furniture Facilities
How to Kickstart a Good Bedroom Design Project?
Dear friends, Any room in your home is primarily a space within walls, floor and a ceiling. When the structure or the apartment gets constructed, the architect and the structural contractor has taken all the care that it is stable and can withstand outside natural forces like, earthquakes, heavy winds, rainfalls, etc.. Amongst all other rooms the bedroom is a space where comfort levels have to be kept maximum. But the word comfort is a
relative term. The meaning of comfort is not just a sleep of 8 hours.
A good sleep inside a bedroom is a bare minimum
expectation which can not be ignored. But comfort varies from person to person. For someone it feels good by just sitting in a rocking chair, sipping a cup of coffee and enjoying good view around the house or for someone it could be listening to good music or watching night sky full of stars. So when it comes to design any space many aspects come into consideration. Design is not just arrangement of furniture, choosing...
Mothers Share Buying Habits of Childrens Bedroom Furniture
Just two months ago, a group of mothers from three generations (Gen Y, Gen X and Baby Boomer demographics) shared their buying habits with retailers and manufacturers on purchasing childrens bedroom furniture and baby products. This occurred at the fifth annual Kids Today conference in Bonita Springs Florida.Author and entrepreneur Maria Bailey, an executive in the fields of publishing, marketing, and business development, was the keynote speaker at the conference and a moderator for the panel. Maria Bailey has worked for numerous companies, including Automation USA, AutoNation, Discovery Zone, The Miami Herald, Broward Community College, and McDonald's. Her experience as an executive and the mother of four young children led her to specialize in assisting mothers in balancing their home and work lives. Bailey explained the importance of marketing to mothers of different ages.Even though there were some differences there were also many similarities.
One baby boomer said she found...
Mothers Share Buying Habits of Childrens Bedroom Furniture
Tips For Designing A Unique Bedroom
You've finally saved up the money to redo your bedroom and you want the room to be a statement
of who you are with a unique flair.
Whether you are doing a major remodel or just some light redecorating, there's a few things you should think about when designing your new bedroom.
First off, if your bedroom is a suite with a master bath or even a sitting room, you want to make sure you carry the main theme throughout all the rooms to tie them all together.
Not only that but also make sure you coordinate your floors, walls and windows in each room.
Recent studies have
shown that balancing the cloth of your living room upholstery to the window and floor
treatments can spark sensations of appreciation and pleasure in household members and
guests.
Now having said that, I don't mean that you necessarily have to duplicate exactly the look in each room, but try to carry over something from the bedroom...