Modern Italian fireplace design is clean, sparse, and often geometric and simple. This contemporary fireplace design is ideal for apartments, houses, bars, restaurants and offices. For all products their products Montegrappa developed large variety of creative claddings. Mostly they done in combination of different kinds of marble and wood with protective varnish. Many modern fireplaces use gas for fuel because not only do you get the warmth of the flame and the look of the fire, you do so without having the smell of smoke and a lot of the dust that is typically associated with a wood burning fireplace. (more…)
The interior was designed by M.MAS.A Architect, they are very popular Architect Studio in Coruna. The office interior design such as the Working Area Design, Working Table Design, Ceiling Design, Lighting Design as soon as the Floor and Wall Design, they are look so cleanly. With a stylish selection of modern office furniture, such as desks, chairs, desk lamps, and creative and functional storage solutions. (more…)
Wickes Furniture Company, Inc., a Sun Capital Investment Company and one of the nation’s largest furniture retailers, is opening a new retail showroom in Tanasbourne, Oregon – its fifth in the Portland area. The 40,000 square-foot showroom, located at 17275 NW Cornell Rd., is scheduled to open July 19.
“We appreciate the residents of the Portland area, who have been instrumental in our growth in the Oregon marketplace,” said John Disa, Wickes Furniture president and CEO. “Tanasbourne is the second showroom we’ve opened in the area in the last three months, following closely the May launch of our Keizer Station location. Along with our other locations in Clackamas, Delta Park and Tigard, the two new showrooms enable us to better serve the market.” (more…)
William Bew White III has a lofty goal for the family business he founded in 1978: He wants to make Montevallo-based Summer Classics “the Ralph Lauren of outdoor furniture.”
White seems to be on his way. The company’s outdoor furniture line — which includes table and chair sets that cost $4,000 or more — is sold in 48 states and several foreign countries. Through retailers such as Williams-Sonoma and Restoration Hardware, sales are projected to reach $60 million this year and $76 million in 2008, up from $20 million just four years ago.
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It’s not always easy to see the value of the things around you.
As a kid in this city in the 1960s, I was surrounded by modern architecture.
I grew up in Valleyview, surrounded by avant-garde homes, one-of-a-kind works of modernism designed by some of the city’s leading architects.
I went to Ross Sheppard High School, star-gazed at the planetarium, took swimming lessons at Coronation Pool, shopped at the Bay downtown, saw movies at the Paramount and the Garneau, went to bar mitzvahs at the Beth Shalom synagogue.
I didn’t know it at the time, but my Edmonton was actually a laboratory for modern design. Our postwar oil boom made this city a perfect laboratory for architectural experimentation. We were building a new city, with money and brashness to burn. Architects gathered here, some (more…)
