An emerging term heard around the Home Furnishings Community is Sustainability. What does this mean, how is it accomplished, and how is it affecting the look, feel, and price of the finished products? PH Reed has been exploring the policies and procedures with many of our vendors and found a few who best demonstrate sustainability.
We are proud of our long term relationship with Creative Elegance. They are a contemporary furniture manufacturing company based in Southern California. Privately owned and operated for 28 years, they are deeply concerned with creating and keeping jobs in within the community. All aspects of product design, from purchase of raw materials and manufacturing, to delivery and installation they are continually working to insure and maintain high quality standards.
Their clean contemporary designs for the home and office use many old world craftsmanship techniques and details, rich wood veneers, and a mix of solid, and/or manufactured wood framing. Many of the increased costs of production (at home / not Asia) have been off-set by careful planning for the future, as well as buying and using less, and wasting fewer raw materials. They are leading the way in lowering their carbon footprint and here are some of the specific areas in which they are excelling.
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Posted on Mar 19, 2009 at Thursday
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Posted in News & Events, Product Reviews, Trends
Take a hands-on approach to the world of tactile texture. While you look around your home, feeling the need for change, think about the world of texture.
Enmeshed
The world of tactile textures offer infinite possibilities. Starting from the ground up, floor coverings from DellaRobbia offer amazing options. The “Enmeshed” is a loop pile Artika large felted yarn, combined with single ply cut pile yarn tufted to enhance design and texture.
“Enmeshed” is one of dozens of patterns hand tufted using 100% New Zealand Pure Wool, which is considered the best wool in the carpet industry today. Dellarobbia manufactures these rugs to an heirloom quality standard. Dellarobbia is registered with Wood of New Zealand and has earned the privilege to carry their fern mark symbol, which is highly regarded in the global market-place for it’s superior nature.
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Posted on Mar 11, 2009 at Wednesday
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Tags: DellaRobbia, New Zealand wool, wool rugs
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With people starting to downsize, the big overstuffed furniture may be a thing of the past. Having visited the furniture markets regularly, I have been noticing that many of our furniture designers and manufacturers are reducing the scale of upholstery pieces.
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Posted on Mar 6, 2009 at Friday
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