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Century Furniture Announces Collaboration with Designer Richard Frinier

Furniture World News Desk on 10/13/2018


Century Furniture recently announced a new collaboration with Richard Frinier with the Tangier Collection. The new collection draws it's inspiration from Moorish Architecture. Over the past 16 years, Century Furniture and Richard Frinier have launched many collections reflecting original styles and multiple award-winning creations infused with design elements and embellishments inspired by the designer’s travels to more than 40 countries across five continents. This design aesthetic combined with a high level of attention to detail, artisan craftsmanship, execution, and customer service from Century have each played a role in making this collaboration one to watch throughout the industry.
 
Designer Richard Frinier says, “The Tangier collection embodies a strong sense of place capturing the romantic and exotic essence of authentic Moorish architecture that I discovered on an extended stay in Morocco.” Distinctive forms with arched Moroccan design details are accentuated with an artfully hand-woven and open-weave pattern with a very specific fretwork motif. Its and modern appeal is infused into each memorable piece summoning you to unwind in a spectacularly faceted crescent-shaped and endlessly configurable modular lounge with coordinating woven or teak occasional tables creating the ultimate resort-at-home destination for lingering, entertaining, and relaxing.”

“Richard Frinier’s newest collection, Tangier, shows a progression into more mixed materials, says Haynes King, Director of Outdoor for Century Furniture. “Mixing natural teak with scagliola stone on occasional pieces complements the all-weather resin woven frames. It continues our opulent scale in an updated transitional collection.”

A Few Highlights from Tangier:

  • Tangier is part of a larger collection of dining and lounge furniture for indoor/outdoor use in creating the perfect resort-at-home or resort/restaurant/spa environment.
  • Framework is made using durable, earth-friendly and recyclable powder-coated extruded aluminum.

  • Polyethylene, synthetic weaving fiber is UV-stable, weather-resistant, planet friendly and recyclable.

  • 100% solution-dyed acrylic performance fabrics with proven durability, soft touch, stain resistant, easy care, UV- and fade-resistant qualities that have achieved Greenguard Gold Certification status for contributing to healthy indoor air as a product with low chemical and particle emission.

  • Built to withstand the rigors of full-time exposure with limited maintenance for indoor/outdoor use.




More about Century Furniture, LLC: Century Furniture, based in Hickory, NC, is one of the world’s largest privately owned manufacturers of high-end residential furniture. Founded in 1947 by Harley F. Shuford, Sr., Century is now in the third generation of family ownership and operation and remains committed to their founder’s ideal, to create furniture of such impeccable quality that it brings joy not only to the people who own it, but also to the craftspeople who build it.

Century is recognized in the industry as a design leader, ranked in the forefront for its expertise in finishing and the many details of fine craftsmanship. Its broad line of wood and upholstered furniture consists of bedroom, dining and occasional collections in traditional, transitional and contemporary styling. In addition, Century offers a full line of outdoor collections.

Century is certified as an EFEC company. The corporate office and each of its manufacturing facilities have been EFEC certified since 2010. In addition, Century Furniture was recognized as a Sustainable by Design company in October 2010. Both EFEC and Sustainable by Design are audited and continuous improvement recognitions, which mean the Century team is continually working towards higher and improved environmental standards.

Today Century’s family consists of over 900 associates with a management team conditioned for growth. Continually investing in product design, customer service, technology, and its people, Century Furniture is meeting the challenges of today while planning for the opportunities of the future.

More about Richard Frinier: Richard Frinier has designed award winning interior and exterior furniture, textiles, lighting and accessories for over 30 years. His range encompasses soft modern, contemporary, transitional, traditional and exotic forms with an unmistakable essence of understated modernity blended with neoclassicism.

Best known for his passion to create authentic, relevant and memorable designs, his creations capture authentic design details inspired from his world travels to over 40 countries across five continents. Infusing these details into each thoughtfully designed and executed piece results in a sense of artistry, craftsmanship, emotion and experience.

Richard Frinier’s creative career began as an artist, sculptor and lighting designer, and he also taught advanced furniture manufacturing and design at the college level for many years. Today, he has created thousands of furniture, textile, and lighting designs across hundreds of collections, specified for royal palaces, the finest resorts and spas, and private residences around the world. His unique designs and dedicated career path have garnered over 90 product design and career achievement awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Casual Furnishings Association, induction into the American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame, and he was recently named among the Top 40 Most Influential Individuals in Home Furnishings over the Past 40 Years by Furniture Today. His designs have also been recognized in exhibitions, appeared in film and television productions, and editorialized internationally in design books, trade, design and lifestyle magazines, digital press, the blogosphere and social media capturing the prolific nature of his creative contributions throughout the home furnishings industry.