Jepara Trade and Tourism Center ( JTTC ) is where we get a lot of information about furniture in jepara. It can provide all types of furniture solutions for your house under one roof. You can choose furniture for your Living area, Bedroom and Dining room. We also offer accents, entertainment tables and occasional tables. The entertainment centers, TV stands, media storage cabinet and game tables of are elegant and rich looking.
Jepara Trade and Tourism Center as The Place Furniture Galleries is durable and maintenance free. The furniture provides the same comfort and feel even after years of usage. In short it can be said that The Place Furniture Galleries are a one-stop shop for all your furniture requirements by focusing on aesthetics and reliability.
The Place Furniture Galleries cater selections of every style from contemporary to transitional to traditional; there is something to satisfy the customers with varied tastes and choices. Not just that the Place Furniture also has an exclusive collection of the recliners, sofas, bedroom sets, dining sets with best materials and finishes.
The Galleries not only continue to offer outstanding products but also provides knowledge of the furniture market to the shoppers. The mission of Place Furniture is to offer the best possible service, ergonomically designed selection and value available without compromising on the quality. The friendly staff at The Place Furniture Galleries is always eager to help you make your furniture choices and answer your queries
Besides guaranteeing Reliability and a Pleasurable Delivery experience The Place Furniture Galleries never fails to meet your furniture needs and demands. You can select pieces for your Drawing room, Bedroom and Living room. JTTC a offers a wide range of products ranging from traditional to contemporary styles and is very popular with people of all ages.
Jepara Trade and Tourism Center as The Place Furniture Galleries , a complete furniture information has an experience of over 5 years in the furniture business and strives hard to enhance the look of your home and also adds functionality to it. The Place Furniture operates from 4 well-located places in Long Island. Friendliness, Dedication and Service has helped it to build a noteworthy list of clients.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Concrete Furniture Market Expanding Rapidly
By now the booming market for concrete countertops is well known. Architects and designers are well versed in concretes ability to contribute to the cool, natural look that is in such demand.
What is not as well known is the growing popularity of concrete furniture pieces some of North America’s most creative craftsmen are creating.
“People want to have something they can show off, not something that mimics what their friends or neighbors have,” according to Terry Stogner, owner and founder of Concrete Interiors in Alamo, California. In addition, concrete can be designed in options, straight, curved, or freeform; a variety of edge treatments are possible; surface treatments such as textures and inlays can be used; and the concrete can be tailored to compliment glass, metal, or wood. “And if you break outside the standard mold with concrete, the cost does not go up dramatically,” he said.
Beau Hibdon of Elements of Time in Redmond, Oregon, got his start in furniture when customers he was building a patio for asked him to build the furniture to go with it. “I started using different materials over boards and pieces of plywood. I’d use stains and stamps. When I started showing what I could do, people didn’t believe it.”
Today, the gallery he owns with partner Dave Anderson boasts beautiful furniture that lures customer after customer. Hibdon says requests for furniture are common these days. In fact, three “high-end” stores are interested in their work.
Cheng Design in Berkeley, CaliforniaCheng Design in Berkeley, California, is known internationally for its innovative design work in kitchens, bathrooms, and custom homes. The use of concrete is abundant. “I have an art background and I was always trying to be inventive,” said Futung Cheng, whose mother was a color artist at the Walt Disney Studios. Three of his brothers are professional artists. Cheng was immediately drawn to the virtues of concrete. “It is easily sculpted, it takes any guise, and it mimics whatever ask it to be,” he said.
Cheng design has introduced a new Geocrete Pangea Series Workstation, a module that plugs into a new or existing kitchen. The Workstations are designed around specific functions like pastry making, brass or stainless trivets to be designed near a cook top, fitted cutting boards or chopping blocks and integral fruit bowls.
As each day passes more and more owners, designers, and builders realize the possibilities of concrete for custom furniture pieces — this market is poised to continue growing and become more creative.
Beau Hibdon of Elements of Time in Redmond, Oregon, got his start in furniture when customers he was building a patio for asked him to build the furniture to go with it. “I started using different materials over boards and pieces of plywood. I’d use stains and stamps. When I started showing what I could do, people didn’t believe it.”
Today, the gallery he owns with partner Dave Anderson boasts beautiful furniture that lures customer after customer. Hibdon says requests for furniture are common these days. In fact, three “high-end” stores are interested in their work.
Cheng Design in Berkeley, CaliforniaCheng Design in Berkeley, California, is known internationally for its innovative design work in kitchens, bathrooms, and custom homes. The use of concrete is abundant. “I have an art background and I was always trying to be inventive,” said Futung Cheng, whose mother was a color artist at the Walt Disney Studios. Three of his brothers are professional artists. Cheng was immediately drawn to the virtues of concrete. “It is easily sculpted, it takes any guise, and it mimics whatever ask it to be,” he said.
Cheng design has introduced a new Geocrete Pangea Series Workstation, a module that plugs into a new or existing kitchen. The Workstations are designed around specific functions like pastry making, brass or stainless trivets to be designed near a cook top, fitted cutting boards or chopping blocks and integral fruit bowls.
As each day passes more and more owners, designers, and builders realize the possibilities of concrete for custom furniture pieces — this market is poised to continue growing and become more creative.
source :http://www.concretedecor.net
How to manage a local furniture brand in an IKEA market
Out of the Shadows of a Big Box
Managing a local furniture brand identity in an IKEA Market
Boston’s IKEA Effect
This term describe the ripple effect of marketplace conditions that develop out an IKEA opening. These factors include shifts in shopping traffic, competitive pressures and displacement, but also include local retail profit opportunities.
IKEA in the marketplace
In soft economic conditions with low levels of consumer confidence, IKEA meets the shopping ideals of a broad base of consumers. By successfully managing a brand image with an ultra-competitive, underpricing model, IKEA has the potential to usurp market share from fellow national big box retailers such as target, to regional discount furniture giants such as Jordan’s, to smaller independent local retailers, alike. This marketplace challenge is compounded by IKEA’s unique orientation to important Boston consumer segments, including young adults and students. IKEA expects their Stoughton store to be one of the top in the nation and is investigating a land use deal for a second location nearer to the City of Boston.
Turning challenges into opportunity
Much more than the reports of furniture markets damaged by IKEA development, are the stories of great success through strategic marketing planning around its arrival. By its very nature, IKEA facilitates a trickle effect in local markets. It’s more than the simple fact that IKEA will draw shoppers into the region as Clive Cashman, a spokesman for IKEA’s North American operation well expressed the opportunity: “We have found that we and retailers like Home Depot definitely benefit from having close proximity to one another, but it also applies to smaller retailers.” This is the predominant story reported back from other markets as told in newspaper headlines such as “IKEA will boost local purchases to $400M” and “Giant furniture retailer could signal better times for beleaguered East Palo Alto.” Such consistent phenomenon gives rise to the important questions of what local business can do to ensure that they can avoid obstacles and maximize advantage under these market conditions.
Key Data Points
63% of Boston market adults say its important to them to shop local community stores
95% of Boston market adults say good customer services is a must
62% of Boston market adults seek quality and workmanship in their furniture purchase
Sample Quotation Abstracts
“We know IKEA has a weakness in upholstery, so we’re going after that and hoping to better compete.”
“IKEA makes it easier for shoppers to find Will’s Home Decorating. In the past, he would describe his store location, knowing that he was leaving customers befuddled.”
“The idea was the IKEA was attracting so many customers to Emeryville that there was bound to be spillover, especially of the higher-end customers who might grow disillusioned with IKEA’s do-it-yourself style.”
Highlighted Advertising Strategies
There are a multitude of strategies local retailers can employ to benefit from an IKEA arrival:
Differential the quality of your product over the big box expectation
Make your name and message visible in important traffic areas
Boston prefers locality, tell your local story
Reinforce customer loyalty
Get in front of new homeowners
Team Up: retailers in other regions have created cooperative success stories by creating a consortium of local furniture alternatives supplement IKEA shopping
Define your prospects and target with frequency
source : http://www.bostonglobe.com
All About Furniture
Monday, September 28, 2009
The Collection Of Raffles
The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book: Frontispiece and title page (vol. 1), plates 33 and 35 (vol. 2), 1793 Thomas Sheraton (British, 1751–1806)
London Rogers Fund (161 Sh5)
Source : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Back legs are scrolled at the backrest top. Chevrons and flower carving at the backrest
Raffles console 3 drawers
Raffles Desk 5 drawers
Courtesy of Indofur Optium INDONESIA
The Raffles style named after Thomas Stanford Raffles, the founder of Singapore 1819. This style popularized during Raffles rule Java as governor 1811. This style has a basic profile that similar to Thomas Sheraton Parlour chair appeared on plate 33 of Sheraton’s Drawing Book of 1793. Thin arm arching down to vase shape and spiral reeded dowel. The front legs are turning and reeded tapered shape.
The Mission style grew out of England’s late 19th Century Arts & Crafts movement
The Mission emphasizing thin rectangular lines with flat square surfaces and edges along with plain hardware, utilitarian design along with the reduction of excessive decoration of the late Victorian. The Mission style grew out of England’s late 19th Century Arts & Crafts movement, most closely identified with philosopher/ designer William Morris, introduced to America in the early 20th century
Teak Deep seating
The backrest on this Armchair, and Mission Settees can be easily adjusted to one of three positions.
This chair must be used with cushions
IKC pronounced as IKACE acronym for “Industri Kayu Cepu“
IKC pronounced as IKACE acronym for “Industri Kayu Cepu“, formerly KIKJ, is a subsidiary company to PERHUTANI (Indonesia Forestry Company owned by Government of Indonesia through Ministry of forestry). As an independent busines unit of Perhutani, Ikace aim to be a shortcut in doing woodworking products business with Perhutani, separate from the path of intricate bureaucratic government owned company.
As a subsidiary company to Perhutani, IKACE is known to be the biggest wooden products manufacturer in Indonesia. IKACE produces garden furniture in grade A and B, indoor furniture, building material (i.e. solid doors, windows and flooring) mainly in teak, mahogany and acacia. Equipped with Log Band Saw, Band Resaw, Small Band Saw, Cross Cut,Four side Molders, Spindle molders, Round Tenoner, Murtizer, Sanding Master, R and D line in an adequate numbers, IKACE annually produces outdoor and indoor teak furniture with 14,000 m3 teak log from sustainable forest of Perhutani.
Source :http://www.j-teak.com
Jepara Culliner
Saturday, September 5, 2009
1.Adon-adon Coro
Note : ginger drink coconut milk with sliced roasted, served warm.
2.Es Gempol Pleret ( Gempol Pleret Ice )
Note : This Jeparanes drink can be served hot or with ice cubes, and as dubious as kolak is in attempts at classification (whether it should be categorized as food or as something to drink, despite the Javanese people's insistence that it is unquestionably the latter).
Gempol plered is made of a little ginger juice, palm-sugared water, cinnamon, and tapioca. Then some thick coconut milk is poured on it. The name comes from its site of origin: the mountain area of Plered, Central Java.
3.Dawet Jepara (Es Cendhol / Cendol)
Note : made from materials sago flour, real sugar, coconut milk.
4.Rondo Royal
Note : tape wrapped fried flour. Tape is a traditional fermented food that was familiar. Tape is made from rice, glutinous rice, or from cassava
Tourism
Friday, September 4, 2009
KARTINI BEACH Stated above that the Mantingan Mosque was the second Mosque. The Mosque was built in 1481 S until 1559 C. according to statement stated inside the Mosque “ RUPA BRAHMANA WANASARI” LOCATION In 1619, Jayakarta / Sunda Kelapa City was invaded by the Dutch’s VOC, and now Sunda Kelapa which was renamed Batavia was considered at the beginning of colonialism by the Dutch Imperialism in Indonesia. The king of Songgolangit Waterfall This plot located at Bucu village sub-district Kembang 30 km north from Jepara city. This waterfall has the height 80 m and width 2 m. According to yhe strong that spread among local villagers that enemy body will be stay young after taking a bath or washing their face there.The nature scenery around the plot is so beautiful and the air is also relaxing, and makes this place comfortable to visit as recreation area. You can meet various kinds of butterflies with many beautiful colours. To reach the plot you may use 2 wheel vehicle or 4 wheels vehicle with asphalt road. Welahan Pagoda is called “Hian Thiam Siang Tee”. It is located 24 km south of Jepara city center, exactly at Welahan village, Welahan Sub-district, Jepara District, a village with ancient Chinese heirloom and becoming one of the historic tourism assets in Jepara, where strongly standing two pagodas built by a Chinese traditional healer named Tan Siang Boe together with his elder brother named Tan siang Djie. Visiting for this tourism historic object, some asphalted road or infrastructure through which tourists can pass by and get on 2-wheeled or 4-wheeled vehicles or many other public transports, as the location is nearby Welahan traditional market. 
Kartini Beach is located at 2.5 km westward of the hall of Jepara Regency. This tourist object belongs to Bulu village, Jepara Sub-district. Various supporting facilities such as port, a part of Kura-kura aquarium, motel, and children playground (komedi putar, mandi bola, perahu arus) are available. Quite cool atmosphere around the beach gives different impression to the visitors, for this place is appropriate for family recreation or just for relax.
In jepara beach especially kartini beach, visitors are able to take a rest by sitting under the gazebo and the breathing the fresh air. Area with 3.5 ha large is strategic area, because it is functioned as sea transportation port toward Karimunjava National Sea Park and Panjang Island.Kartini beach can’t be separated from traditional event called “LOMBAN”. It is all day long Jepara’s people annually event held on 8 Syawal (a week after lebaran feast day).
LEGEND AND HISTORY
Actually, Kartini beach is more popular as “PEMANDIAN”. This nickname is common to most of Jeparanese. If someone mentions a word “Pemandian”, that he or she thinks Kartini Beach, not the other thinks Kartini Beach, not the other places.
Kartini Beach JeparaThe word “PEMANDIAN” means a place for taking a bath. The use of the word “Pemandian” is common, because there is a special bathing place for tourist while visiting the beach. The place is located on the western park of Kartini Beach. Visitors usually take bath at dosk and down. Until now this location is still used for taking a bath especially by people who have skin irritation with a hope that the irritation will recover soon.
Kartini Beach area was an island sprouted up with Kelor Plan, so it was know as Kelor Island. At that time, the island was separated from Jepara land. Because of the sedimentation, among the island was lived by Encik Lanang.
The Netherland Indies Government lent the island to Encik Lanang for his achievement on a war in Bali.
Kartini Beach also used as Encik Lanang graveyard, and always attended by the local fishermen before the Lomban Party.
Besides that, Kartini Beach can’t be separated from RA Kartini’s childhood. She and her parent and also her sisters spent their vacation in this beach. That’s name is purposed to respect and remind us to Kartini’s struggle.
Bandengan / Tirta Samudara Beach 
Tirta Samudra Beach or more known by the public society with Bandengan beach placed about 7 km North side from city centre. The beach that has pure water and white sand is suitable for bathing place. There are many tourists come into this object to do intentional bathing frequently. Generally they are children, youngsters and foreign countries tourists. Usually, the most favourite moment is in the morning and in the evening toward twilight where there is mesmerizing sunset panorama.In this location, we can sit and relax on the shelter while enjoy the natural beach breezy wind (unpolluted). The tourism object location has large field and the whole of part the dence pandan trees are grown. It is suitable for youngsters activities such as camping, beach volley, relax bicycled for the same activities. Besides the mentioned above, in this area can be used the play motocross and kitten festival for the regional level, national level also international. The object can be reached easily by public transportation, because have provided the asphalt road infrastructure and the direct city transportation are a valuable to the location above. Meanwhile, roasted fish, small crab, boiled tortoise shell and pending sprain are a special foods that can be enjoyed by the visitors.
HISTORY AND LEGEND
Based on history record, Bandengan Beach has tight correlation with the life of National Hero and Woman Emancipation figure, RA Kartini. The mentioned beach was interesting place for the sons and daughters of Jepara Regency Regent, because there were may sweet memorizes there. The energetic girl who was usually calls TRINIL often made a tour to the Bandengan beach when she was child. She played with her family in the edge of beach that the white sand spread out. RA Kartini described her heart and soul as if she was one to the sea wave pounding when she wrote letters to Stella, her friend in Holland.
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Bandengan Beach Jepara
Netherlands Indies Aristricrate, Mrs. Ovink Soer (Assistance Residence wife) with her husband invited Kartini and her little sisters Roekmini and Kardinah to enjoy the beach beauty in the first vacation toward promotion of the class. Kartini and her two little sisters followed Mrs. Ovink Soer find shell and they chased each other to avoid the wafe. Mrs. Ovink Soer asked to Kartini what the beach name was. Kartini answered shortly “Bandengan Beach”. Then Mrs. Ovink Soer said that there was beach that almost the same with Bandengan Beach in Holland, but there was little different because it had cool water the name is SCHEVENINGEN. Spontaneously, after listening, Kartini intermitted “…so, we called It…” this Bandengan Beach with “KLEIN SCHEVENINGEN”.
Started the above mentioned, until now Bandengan Beach Has been known as KLEIN SCHEVENINGEN (in Dutch KLEIN means: beach and SCHEVENINGEN is the beach name in Holland).
Besides Bandengan beach was the place where had carved the history journey of RA Kartini idea. In this place RA Kartini and Mr. Abendanon also conducted four eyes conversation. The conversation connected her request to study in Holland, even finally her formal request to Netherlands Indies Government was reversed and the cost of her study was given to young man from Sumatera, Agus Salim (KH. Agus Salim).
While it was narrated that Bandengan beach tourism object had correlated with the legend of Karimunjawa name. In that legend had been stated that because it was motivated the sense concern about his son naughtiness, therefore Sunan Muria instructed his son Amir Hasan to go to the North for an island that appeared “Kremun-kremun” from the peak of Muria Mountain. The journey aim was too deep once to develop the religion. Latter the Island had been named Karimunjawa. That arrived to the beach in the journey and there were many swamps and milkfishes there. Until now this place had been named Bandengan village and the beach which place in the village had been called Bandengan Beach.
Mantingan Mosque
Portuguese Fortress 
HISTORY AND LEGENDS
In the graveyard area, his wife and his Chinese relative, named CIE GWI GWAN were also buried. The graveyard fully crowded at “Khol” (the day where people commemorate the death of Sultan Hadlirin’s death) also at ceremonial moment to change banner covered the Sultan’s tomb. This ceremonial moment is held once a year at 17 Robiul Awal (month of Moslem calendar), same with the date of Jepara anniversary.
The grave is believed by many people that has magical power. Husband and wife who haven’t got any 
Another magical power in this grave is the holy water, local people believe that the water used to get the truth of someone. Jeparanase people use this water when they are facing a problem by drinking the water, but it’s just a belief, you may believe or not.
Geographically this fortress seems strategic for military importance specially in the past which the canon’s range of shooting is only 2 to 3 km. This fortress is built on the top of the rocky hill, besides the beach and right in front of it lies Mondoliko Island, so practically the straits in front of this fortress is under the control of fortress canon and will influence ship’s cruise from Jepara to East Indonesia or the other way. HISTORY
HISTORY
A long time ago there was a young man came from Tunahan village made a love relationship with a beautiful young lady from Dukuh Sumanding Bucu village sub-district Kembang. Their relationship continued until marriage. It was hold that between Tunahan village and Bucu village there was a river (now the river become waterfall).
In the old days a young man who wanted to propose a young lady had to bring kitchen set such as frying pan, plate, glass, etc. and also brought live short such as buffalo, cow, sheep, etc. At dawn the wife was having initiative to prepare break fast for the beloved husband, while she was preparing the breakfast, because a little bit careless, she made noises from the kitchen set.Because of the noise, her mother warned her “Don’t get noisy, because it will make your husband awake”. Her husband heard that and miss inter-plated what his mother in law said as “Why you make some noise, when you work, do you think it is husband’s stuff?”
Right at the time the husband felt so annoyed with his mother in law’s words, so in the middle of the night the couple left from the house to move to her husband origin by riding a cart which was pull by cow. It was so dark that they went to the wrong road (got lost), and they felt that the car fell to the cliff (known as Songgolangit waterfall) and they were missing in action.
This legend is so wide spread among local villagers, so that become a prohibition between people from Tunahan village and Bucu Village to be husband and wife, as they will meet too many obstacles in their relationship. Songgolangit waterfall, that is why people call it, because if you look the waterfall from the bottom, the waterfall looks supporting the sky. It was tall that the waterfall was guarded by a couple husband and wife that were participating in guarding the tourists comfort ability who were enjoying the beauty of the plot, because they felt that the tourists were their guests to be respected and guarded their security and comfort ability.
Welahan Temple 
HISTORY AND LEGEND
In 1830 the Dutch General Governor, Johanes Graaf Bosch reigning Indonesia, which was called as the Netherlands Indies Colonization at that time coming a Chinese from China called Tan Siang Boe. His leaving from China to Southeat Asia was to find his elder brother named Tan Siang Djie in Indonesia. Leaving from China together in one boat was a Tasugagu who had meditated from Pho To San at Cinese land, as a meditative place of his excellency minister / emperor Hian Thiam Siang Tee during his trip and falling in sick, than with his solidarity and sympathy among people, Tan Siang Boe treated him with his medicines brought with from China, than he could cure Tasugagu’s sickness.
Gratefully for his treatment, while landing at Singapore, Tasu provided a gift in his express of thanks to Tan Siang Boe in the form of a bag with Tionggoan heirloom consisting of : a piece of Sien Tjhiang (smooth paper painted with His Excellency Hian Siang Tee), a stick of pokian (a Chinese sword), a Hio Lauw (place for dust from cremation), and a Tjioe Hwat (a book of medicine / forecast). After Tan Siang Boe arrived at Semarang, overnight staying in Kong Kwan’s group house where he got an information that his elder brother was in Welahan Jepara, so he left for meeting Tan Siang Djie, his elder brother 
In that case, the heirloom were entrustede to his elder brother considering that it was necessary to save the heirloom, so Tan Tjoe Tien entrusted the heirloom to the house owner, Liem Tjoe Tien, who always kept the heirloom up the balcony of his house. At that time, in general, he did not know what heirloomit was kept up the balcony.
During the storage up the balcony, every 3rd of Sha Gwa’s birth, i.e., Imlek of Seng Tan Djiet from Hian Thiam Siang Tee, the heirloom sparked a magic power like sparkling-out fire, sometime like a very marvelous fire-dragon and turtle that made the house settlers gor surprised. This event made him to call back Tan Siang Boe, the entrustee of the heirloom to Welahan to open the heirloom kept in the bag up the balcony. Opening and showing the heirloom to the members of the house settlers, he said that the heirloom were the relic from His Excellency Hian Thiam Siang Tee, so since then, the heirloom were praised according to the ancestor’s custom and tradition.
One day, Liem Tjoe Tian fallen in hard sickand it could be recovered by the magic power of the heirloom. With this event, mouth-to-mouth talk by people made the power famous, respected and praised among people believing in till now.Accordingly, the only heirloom of ancient Chinese for the first time coming into Indonesia as brought by Tan Siang Boe is that kept at Welahan, so it is believed that the existence of Welahan pagoda is the oldest one in Indonesia.With this existence of pagoda in Welahan, not only dominated by Chinese ethnic, but alsonatives coming frommany cities or peovinces asking for treatment, destiny, partners, planting and advancement in bussines, etc.
