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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.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Modern Contemporary ideas and secrets....

Today I am sharing with all of you great modern contemporary ideas..

Enjoy the post and pics..

Outdoor Fireplace for Decorate your Patio or Garden

This design is for a wonderful open fireplace can decorate your patio or garden. This could add to them a little warmth and originality. Bjørn Christian atmosphere provides a warm comfortable house with simple furniture, make you want to chat that is not accompanied by a fire shelter in body heat. Today there are many modern portable outdoor fireplace, which usually has a size not large and allow for the angle of light your outdoor areas. Not only the fire that burns like fire further adjust each corner of the balcony and the garden beside the house. Lighthouse Ball can be found in black and white, depending on what you want to be seen in the type of style. You can find one of the coolest decorations as among the new products the company Menu Scandinavia.

Awesome Ball Torches Designed by Christian Bjørn

They are made of weatherproof steel, with removable large oil reservoirs in stainless steel and plastic. A small fire in the dim, it is a Scandinavian style made by the designer who has won many awards. This is a light comfortable on cold winter days. Logging is also comfortable on summer evenings for romantic lighting. Lively Ball typical lighthouse oil lamp light portable, comes in a spherical model is capable of burning continues with a thick fiberglass wick. Elegant modern design has traditionally been full of amazing torch in appearance. Lively Ball typical lighthouse oil lamp light portable, comes in a spherical model is capable of burning continues with a thick fiberglass wick.

Modern Outdoor Oil Fireplace White Lighthouse Ball By Menu

Modern Stunning Round Outdoor Oil Lamp

Momentoitalia Lighting Collection for Unique Personality

Ceramic Lamp Menozzi by Mamati

Italian Handmade Ceramic Lamp Design

Modern Lighting Products with a Unique Personality

Momentoitalia Lighting Collection in Modern Style

At Interior Deluxe, we are pleased to offer modern Italian lights to add pleasure and enhance the contemporary or perhaps classic feel of your home. This design lighting from momentoitalia lighting collection. The design of this lamp can bring to you modern lighting products with a unique personality.That is why we’ve chosen this collection of design lamps made by hands by a famous Italian artist, Ms Menozz I whose laboratory has received several awards during the past years. Her technique is a special combination of heating procedures, colors and material.

Cermamic mixed to crystalline and enamel materials with application of color lacquers for a style definition.. Through this stringent design criterion, you can be guaranteed of reliability and unsurpassed quality products. This beautiful and innovative range of modern Italian lights utilizes highly fashionable and modern materials which allow the final product to be extremely contemporary, while at the same time offering originality.

Tulip Armchair : Modern and Artistic Armchair by Marcel Wanders

Tulip Armchair

Green Tulip Armchair

Wanders’ Tulip in Red

Tulip Armchair

mimicking the stem of a flower, a shiny revolving base in dark varnished metal

Tulip Armchair in White

Tulip Armchair has an amazing shape and may not think to create new innovations such chair by another designer. Cappellini is the latest breakthrough for wood chairs with modern design and unique.This is unique modern armchair, with mimicking the stem of a flower, a shiny revolving base in dark varnished metal. Tulip armchair‘ created by dutch designer marcel wanders for cappellini is a reinterpretation. The frame is produced in soft polyurethane co-injected with rigid polyurethane, the upholstery in foam and acrylic layers; fixed cover available in a wide range of fabrics, leathers and Alcantara

Easy and Comfortable Chair by Nelson and Cate

Easy and Comfortable Chair

Cate and Nelson Chair Design

Easy Chair

Easy Chair for Blå Station

Production of Easy Chair

The design of this chair designed by Cate and nelson. By using wood materials and naturally tanned leather ring from Tärnsjö Tannery.The seat is upholstered in polyether foam and down, with moulded birch with a surface of ash veneer. Blå Station is 25 years young in 2011, and Cate & Nelson were commissioned to design a product to commemorate the occasion – B25. The result, B25, also builds on the idea of furnishings as members of a family – creating not just a single item of furniture, but a small series, a group of furnishings or a family based on the same idea and using the same basic components. This chair can be used in living room,gazebo, or family room.family room chair,gazebo chair,modern chair, living room chair.

Modern Contemporary ideas..

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