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Tired of your furniture? Compost it.
Earth friendly design lovers will be happy to hear this. You no longer have to suffer the guilt of adding another piece of unwanted furniture to the landfill thanks to french designer Elise Gabriel. Her "Zelfo Embrace" collection of furniture and lighting is adorable, functional, and ...
Tommy Sofa Bed
We received an exciting delivery a couple of weeks ago from our upholstery shop containing a new Tommy sofa bed for the showroom. Upholstered in a bright spring green and accented by cute square cushions, this piece has been getting lots of attention since it's arrival.
The mattress inside this ...
Eye Spy... Eames Sofa Compact
Sofa Compact by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com
Designed in 1954, the Sofa Compact was an adaptation from a built in sofa that Charles and Ray Eames designed for their own home in the 1940's. The freestanding version has been in production since 1954 without ...
Alessi Receives GOOD DESIGN Award
image credit: www.chi-athenaeum.org
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design has honored 5 Alessi products with their prestigious "2010 GOOD DESIGN" award: a 60 year old prestigious program of acknowledging design excellence all over the world. The 5 products that received the ...
Gabriel Ross' Very Own Bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle ... i want to ride my bike ... I want to ride my bicycle ...
Queen is right. I do want to ride my bicycle, but the snow falling in Victoria is not helping me out in this department. My hat is tipped to those die hard riders that I have seen over the past few days ...
Gabriel Ross Furnishes Terra Verde Show Suite
Terra Verde (Italian for "Green Earth") is a new contemporary townhome devlopment in Fairfield area, Victoria BC. It's a modern project with a west coast feel by local developer, Abstract Developments. The open concept design and clean finishes create a perfect space to house Gabriel Ross' ...
The Making of a Vintage Classic: The Series 7 Chair by Arne Jacobsen
Our last post was highlighting a vintage Arne Jacobsen Series 7 Chair that our shop reupholstered. Today, I came across this video on the Huffington Post about the making of the classic 1955 chair. The video is a beautifully choreographed black and white film depicting all the steps (human and ...
A Vintage Classic Reupholstered
For those who don't already know it, Gabriel Ross is also a furniture manufacturer. AND ... not only do we locally hand make beautiful sofas, chairs, and occasional tables, we also occasionally re-upholster some vintage pieces. We are *very* talented.
Recently, we reupholstered an Arne Jacobsen ...
Eye Spy ... Iittala Kastehelmi Dewdrop Collection
Kastehelmi Dewdrop Collection by Oiva Toikka for Iittala
Modern with a vintage twist, Iittala's new Kastehelmi (Dewdrop) collection is fresh, fun, and elegant all at once. Oiva Toikka originally came up with the design in 1964 as a solution to camouflage the seam that is created during the ...
SAYL Chair has Arrived!
SAYL Chair by Yves Behar for Herman Miller
Herman Miller's new office chair, SAYL by Yves Behar, has finally arrived at Gabriel Ross. We received our stock last week and the chair exceeded our expectations in comfort and appearance. Although we have only received stock of the Basic Black version ...