Category Archives: Trade

Furniture Today – Best of Market
Matsuoka International – The Kimono Cabinet by Matsuoka was shown in a new sable sycamore finish. In addition to the finish, dealers liked the kimono floral pattern on the handles.
Pictured: Kimono Cabinet from the Metropole Collection

We had quite the fab evening yesterday at Bograd’s Fine Furniture in Riverdale, NJ. Everyone had some Sake, some laughs, and no one tried to beat me up. Every night that happens is a success in my book.
The impending danger came from the no-holds-barred tour I gave to the guests who attended Meet the Masters, an evening [...]

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Savoy Night Table

ANNMARIE MARANO
We’re here at Bograd’s Meet the Masters night, celebrating the new Matsuoka International Christian Lyon line, available at Bograd’s. We’ll be here until 9 p.m., looking forward to Jason Kontos’s no-holds-barred tour of the store floor.
Here is Christian Lyon (far left) with Matsuoka colleagues and Joe Bograd (second from right), surrounded by the new pieces [...]

Jason Kontos
Stop by Bograd’s on the 25th for Meet the Masters Monday.
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m one of the masters.
The other is Australian designer Christian Lyon, designer of Matsuoka’s two newest lines of furniture: the Moderne collection and the Metropole. Bograd’s Fine Furniture is the exclusive representative for this contemporary Japanese company for the North [...]

By Heath E. Combs
AT THE MARKET – Glass sculptor Stephen Gormley says he knows that structural integrity is important when it comes to working in his chosen medium.
For example, if you’re making a 25-foot-tall glass sculpture to sit behind a reception desk, it ought to remain intact durning an earthquake, he said. Otherwise, it’s bad [...]

3. Matsuoka (Mail Stop 2813, Concord, NC 28025) will debut a new line of custom-made crystal furniture designed by world-renowned glass sculptor Stephen Gormley. Shown is a cocktail table from the new collection.

Furniture Today – Market Guide: Exclusive First Look
3. Matsuoka IHFC IH411 – This Crystal Rib glass cocktail table is available in custom sizes from renowned sculptor Stephen Gormley.

Matsuoka International
Premiere Showing at the High Point International Home Furnishings Market – IHFC IH 411
Crystal Sculpures by Stephen Gormley

Pictured:
Moderene Bedroom: Bed, Savoy Night Tables
Tortoise Commode, Kimono Sideboard, Roppongi Sofa, Dining Table & Bed Queen