Avant-Garde Modern Furniture Blog: THE GREAT OUTDOORS, TRANQUIL GARDENS, FIREPLACES, OUTDOOR FURNITURE

About Alexander Calzadilla

Alexander Calzadilla is a Cuban male originally from Philadelphia, who has happily called Miami his home since moving here at the age of 15. He attended Southwest Sr. High School and Florida International University, ultimately receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. While in college, he began working as a paralegal for the Law Offices of Jeffrey E. Reichenbacher, a position he kept for seven years after graduation. He subsequently worked at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Associates before landing at Costa Nursery. After distinguishing himself with many accomplishments, he was promoted to the position of Director of Specialty Products, which included the orchid, bonsai and lucky bamboo departments. When Alex was first put in charge of the three departments, they ranked near the bottom. By the time he left Costa after seven years, Alex had transformed the floundering departments into unqualified successes, posting record earnings, sales and profitability. In 2008 Alex was named the Costa Employee of the Year. Alex now puts his formidable prowess as a businessman into his newest venture, Avant-Garde Home Furnishings, LLC, serving as Managing Partner.

About Avant-Garde

We offer home furnishings and decor for every area of your home,both inside and out, always striving to bring you the most current design elements being used by today's top designers, at a fraction of their retail cost. Whether you are completely redecorating an area of your home, looking for the perfect accent piece to finish off an existing room, shopping for a unique gift, or simply "window shopping" to get design ideas, Avant-Garde is the place to go for everything modern & contemporary for your home.

Friday, May 6, 2011

THE GREAT OUTDOORS, TRANQUIL GARDENS, FIREPLACES, OUTDOOR FURNITURE

OUTDOOR GARDENS

A FEW TRANQUIL GARDENS, FIREPLACES, AND SOME REALLY NICE OUTDOOR FURNITURE!

I have always been a big fan of the outdoors especially gardening. I mean when you take a look at my old job, at Costa Farms, you realize I love plants and just about everything about them. I also love gardening and of course maintaining my yard at near perfect trim, grass height, and plant spacing and allocation of space to suit the plants and not the other way around, for you see for every spacing or look desired there are a lot of plants so there is always something for everyone. Spacing plants in Gardens is not normally thought about by people, much more they think about types of plants for certain temp regions in the United States but please realize improperly spaced plants will not grow good roots, not get enough sunlight to certain parts of the plant, and will eventually wither and die. Improperly spaced plants can not grow out right and instead tangle on each other and fight each other for the liitle space they have been provided with.

Anyway the reason why I started to talk about plants is due to the pictures you are about to see. Minimal style of design hits the Garden World.. These pictures are beautiful in every way and each picture to me shows a tranquil scene to be enjoyed not just by the owners but by everyone who has the pleasure to have seen them

Have a look.. Let me know what you think?

OUTDOOR FIREPLACES

How many of you love to sit outside by a fireplace as the fall comes in or as the Spring air returns. A lot of us would but fireplaces outside.. Not so sure and the closest thing we have are fire pits. Well not anymore, look at these excellent examples of modern, contemporary outdoor fireplace designs for our modern homes.. Stunning...

Perfect fireplaces for our northern homes so that we can enjoy those really nice fall nights or spring nughts and of course summer nights in our yards with our families and friends.. Great concepts and designs on the fireplaces as well..

MODERN BACKYARD PATIO FURNITURE

Lastly I will talk about backyard modern furniture.. Its come a long way since the standard patio plastic table unbrella and chairs of yessterday..

Have a look!