Gabriel's Consignment Store in Norwood, Massachusetts is rolling out a wealth of new arrivals from area estates, including furniture, antiques, and accessories.
Norwood, MA (PRWEB) June 16, 2012
Spring has certainly sprung for Gabriel's Consignment Store in Norwood, Massachusetts. The store's upscale offerings of antiques, furnishings, and jewelry are refreshed this month as all-new inventory is prepared for release. The store's 9000 square foot furniture consignment gallery will feature never before seen pieces from prominent estates in Dover, Weston, Boston, and many more.Gabriel's spring selection renewal provides new inspiration to customers looking for a special piece to finish off a remodeled room, or just replacing worn-out furnishings with something unique. Spring-cleaning goes hand-in-hand with updating a room's decor or style, and Gabriel's Consignment is committed to making these ventures possible with their extensive new inventory. With over 40 years of experience in the antique and consignment markets, the store's employees can recommend pieces for any sense of style.
The constantly revolving and renewing selection of designer collections promises a unique experience for buyers, with daily new arrivals staying one step ahead of their expectations. Whether customers favor classical or contemporary designs, the showroom at Gabriel's Consignment Store offers a unique selection. From large furnishings to small accessories and artistic pieces, customers will find a vast variety of styles represented.
Gabriel's Consignment Store plans to host several on-site estate sales throughout the summer, giving customers direct access to the "finds" that make the store's selection so extensive. Their spring selection also offers the exclusive finds of estate jewelry, purses and scarves to the public, plus many other antique accessories.
The store's full consignment services are available to private individuals, estates and businesses alike, and the owners promise to fit the needs of any seller. Gabriel's Consignment Store is dedicated to serving the consignment and antique needs of the Norwood area, and strives to always offer their pieces at a competitive price. Owner Peter Gavrilles explains: "We don't use 'automatic markdowns', we set the cost at a fair, reasonable price from the start."
About the company:
With over 40 years experience in Fine Antiques, New and pre-owned Home Furnishings, Gabriel's Consignment has the best selection of Furniture & Decorative Accessories. From private individuals to entire estates, interior Design firms and business liquidations, they offer full consignment services to suit your needs. For more information visit their website at http://www.gabrielsconsignmentstore.com.
Peter Gavrilles
Gabriel's Consignment Store
781-769-1600
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NeoCon furniture show in Chicago shows off the future of seating, more - Denver Post
CHICAGO — NeoCon, the contract furniture trade show held at the Merchandise Mart here every year, is the place to go for businesslike items such as a conference-room table or motorized blinds. The show fills several floors of a gargantuan brick block of a building with products designed for commercial and institutional settings: schools, hotels, hospitals and especially offices.
Typically, the scene is a field of laminates and steel. The color palette tends toward oatmeal and gray, and there are countless wire-management systems on display.
But this year visitors to the show, which ended Wednesday, were greeted by the unexpected sight of a bright yellow quilted chair that would cheer any workplace — a color
so jaunty you might even want it at home.Hosu, as this happy chair is called, is intended for any easygoing workplace, home offices included. Designed by Patricia Urquiola for Coalesse, it evolved from research suggesting that wherever people commune with their hand-held digital devices, they like to lounge close to the floor and even sprawl a bit.
As a result, the chair, which starts at $2,000 and will be available in September though Coalesse's online store, has a grommet at the base that allows a power cord to be neatly drawn up around the seat, and a pocket at the back for storing a tablet computer. Users are encouraged to wedge a smartphone into the narrow slit that borders the seat cushion. And a convertible version of the chair unfolds so they can recline in a position one might ordinarily equate with sloth.
Urquiola described Hosu as "a little nest" and "a comfort zone," characterizations that challenge traditional ideas about work as a serious business that requires serious postures. And Hosu, it turned out, was not the only piece at NeoCon with a laid-back attitude.
As people tethered to their digital devices extend the workday into night and through weekends, the workplace has become a mutable
environment that can morph from a cubicle in a corporate tower to a living room. And work-related furniture has a greater duty to relieve the tedium of long, sedentary hours.At NeoCon this year, the word "ergonomic" seemed to have gone out of fashion, but several representatives of furniture companies echoed Urquiola's words about comfort, including Mark McKenna, design director at Humanscale.
"We like to say comfort is not a privilege, it's a universal requirement," said McKenna, whose company introduced the Diffrient Smart Chair, a no-fuss-to-adjust desk chair by the octogenarian industrial designer Niels Diffrient.
(The chair, which will be available in October, starting at $1,330, is the latest to feature Diffrient's
patented mechanism that automatically calibrates the angle of recline to the sitter's weight. Simply lean back, and whatever your size, the seat moves forward in a smooth, easy gesture.)Adaptability appeared to be a watchword as well. Herman Miller, a company that has long straddled the boundary between office and home with its handsome designs by midcentury modernists, showed AGL, Leon Ransmeier's group of streamlined aluminum worktables with compartments for charging electronic gadgets. Close the compartments and they visually melt away, leaving an uncluttered surface for dining.
In a statement, Ransmeier wrote that he saw the tables as a boon for "compact apartments where additional furniture is not feasible."
Other
pieces converted domestic settings into work spaces. LOFTwall, a company founded in 2009, showed partitions that can be used to carve out a home office from a larger room. The walls are made with panels in a variety of materials, from translucent plastic to adhesive squares on which users can stick almost any fabric.There was also a new iteration of IdeaPaint, a product that turns interior walls into erasable whiteboards: Create is a clear coating that can be slathered onto walls of any hue, so that users can maintain a consistent color scheme even if one of the walls in the room has become a giant memo board. (It is sold in kits that cost $225 and cover 50 square feet.)
Toboggan, by Antenna Design for Knoll, is a whimsical chair
with a curved backrest when you sit on it one way; turn around, and the backrest functions as a small desk that can support a tablet computer.It was shown in robin's egg blue and dark red, colors that are anything but institutional. The seat, which starts about $400 and will be available in the fall, reflects an effort to move away from monochromatic schemes, but in a way that would allow the pieces to blend with natural materials, said Masamichi Udagawa, Antenna's co-founder.
"We wanted a ground color, not a figure color," he said. "Nice, but quiet. And not in the baby-powder sense."
Sigi Moeslinger, Antenna's other founder, added: "It can also be a great coffee table."
Another piece of playfulseating could be seen in the showroom of the office furniture giant Haworth: Shetland, a rocking stool that the company first released in a limited number in 1997. Michael Welsh, who designed the revival, said the piece was "meant to be informal ... and iconic in its shape," plus you can stow a briefcase underneath it.
The stool, which comes in a stationary version as well, will be available in September in a painted finish or a walnut veneer, and will range from $700 for the stool alone to $2,000 with the optional companion covers in wool and leather that evoke horse blankets and saddles.
Office furniture, it seems, is not just adopting a more accessible, informal appearance — it actually is more accessible.
Source: www.denverpost.com
Fire-hit furniture firm to re-open a year later - harboroughmail.co.uk
A LUTTERWORTH furniture business which was completely gutted by fire almost a year ago is set to re-open in just a few weeks’ time after an extensive restoration project.
Bespoke firm Sealey Furniture was destroyed by a fire which swept through the 35-year-old firm’s High Street workshop in the early hours of Friday, June 24, last year.
Owner Keith Sealey said the workshop is officially re-opening on Tuesday, July 3, and he is hosting a party for invited guests to mark the occasion.
Mr Sealey said: “During the last year, myself and my three employees have been very busy.
“We moved to temporary accommodation, in Kirby Muxloe, which enabled us to continue manufacturing bespoke items on a limited basis for our local and national clients.
“The clearing of debris from the site, the rebuild and the re-equipping of the workshop, in addition to maintaining the business, has presented huge challenges.”
Although the July 3 event is for invited guests only, Mr Sealey said the workshop will then remain open between Wednesday, July 4, until the following Saturday so people can visit and see photographs of the devastation and the rebuilding project.
Mr Sealey added: “It’s my way of saying thank-you to the local community, who were really supportive following the fire, the building owners, those who worked on the rebuild and my clients.
“Without their support I may well have been tempted to walk away from the burnt-out ruin of the workshop.”
Mr Sealey said he was told by fire investigators who examined the burnt-out workshop that the blaze had been caused by an electrical fridge.
Source: www.harboroughmail.co.uk
Awards for church chair designs - Christian Today
The Bishop of London this week presented awards to designers for their stylish and innovative church chair designs.
The winners of the Church of England's church chair design competition were announced by Dr Richard Chartres at a ceremony held at St John's Church in Hyde Park, London.
In addition to the bishop, the judging panel included one of the country's leading furniture designers and makers, John Makepeace, illustrator Matthew Rice, chair of the Church Buildings Council, Anne Sloman, and vicar of St John's, the Rev Stephen Mason.
The winners of the students and recent graduates categories were Nick Shurey and Sebastian Klawiter, who will take away £1,000.
They said: “It was a real honour to have been involved, and we’re ecstatic to have won – it was a real surprise.
"We spent much time on establishing our starting-point and then it was a last-minute dash to get our initial design submitted by the deadline.
"A lot of effort then went into working up the finished design."
They added: “We had never worked together before, and hope we’ll have another opportunity.”
The second category was for design professionals, with the award going to Tomoko Azumi at the TNA Design Studio.
She said: “It was a real privilege to have taken part in the competition, using my knowledge of chair design in the context of church buildings ancient and modern. I am really pleased to have had this opportunity to help enhance the community’s use of such buildings.”
The final category acknowledged the quality of design in seats already in production.
Nigel Shepherd, Luke Hughes & Company, picked up an award for their stacking bench, while the second award in the category went to Simon Pengelly, of Chorus, for his wooden stacking chair.
Mr Shepherd said: “I am thrilled to have this design recognised in such a way. It is brilliant the way this competition has drawn attention to the importance of good design for furniture in churches.”
Mr Pengelly commented: “I am honoured to have won in this category. Too much church furniture is poorly designed and made. This whole competition has been inspiring in what it is trying to achieve in opening up awareness of the importance of design excellence.”
Dr Chartres said the response to the competition had been extraordinary.
"There is a need to open up our churches more and more as community hubs for a great variety of purposes.
"We’re in this for permanency, for eternity, so our furnishings, while being flexible, have to signal something of that as well.
He continued: “Our aims were very simple. We wanted to engage designers with the potential that exists in a very flourishing church context; we wanted to help parishes consider very carefully how they replace pews when their removal has been agreed; we wanted to encourage the highest possible standards of design in our churches; and we wanted to widen the range of affordable as well as well-designed chairs.”
Designs were judged on their sympathy with historic church interiors, affordability, functionality, comfort and aesthetic merit.
The Church hopes that the best of the designs from the competition will go into manufacture.
Mr Makepeace said: "Furniture design is about linking people to the building they’re in. As society has become more sedentary, we have become dependent on seating that provides better support than a flat seat and back. Given the quality of our churches, we need chairs which are comfortable, classically simple and enduring.”
Source: www.christiantoday.com
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