All Articles Tagged Furniture

Lisa Montgomery | 03/22 07:25 AM, 0 Comments

I’ve always wondered about home theater seating: What makes it so different from regular everyday seating? How are they built? What types of materials are used? I recently stopped by Fortress Seating in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. for an look at the art of designing, constructing and customizing home theater seats. Every seat at the 25,000-square-foot Fortress warehouse is built from scratch. Integrators send in their specs and the Fortress team creates one-of-a-kind seating. Gabi Wolper, vice president of sales, walked me through the entire chair-building process. There’s a lot that… View this story

Jason Knott | 03/05 02:17 PM, 2 Comments

As integrators continue to seek out margin-laden products to sell, they might want to consider theInada Massage Chairs. The Boulder-Colo.-based chairs have been made since 1962. When you first sit down in these sci-fi-looking chairs, you receive about a 15-second infrared scan after activating the remote control. It handles anyone from 5-feet tall to 6-feet, 5-inches tall.\ The chair measures your body and personalizes the shiatsu for your body. It has have more than 1,200 square inches of coverage, including a neck and shoulders massage; full-arm shiatsu; calf, foot and… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 09/09 08:40 AM, 0 Comments

Blade2 The Blade2 by OmniMount is a 2-shelf unit that offers specific advantages with its low 1.2” (30mm) mounting profile, quick installation and matte black finish. Mounted under a TV or as a stand-alone piece, Blade2 offers a fresh approach to accessorizing your home theater. UT100FM OmniMount’s UT100FM is an innovative full motion mount ideal for large ultrathin panels. Offering 10º of tilt and 20.3” of arm extension, the UT100FM is the perfect mount to achieve ideal placement for today’s TVs in yesterday’s construction, allowing for post-installation leveling to account… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 09/08 12:35 PM, 0 Comments

Phoenix, AZ — OmniMount (CEDIA Booth 4025) is bringing to market a class of distinct furniture pieces designed to offer retailers and consumers a variety of home theater furniture options. The collection consists of three audio towers and eight video tables, in a range of styles and finishes from open to enclosed and techy to traditional. OmniMount, the global leader in consumer and commercial A/V furniture and mounting solutions, continues to bring innovative furniture solutions to market with its latest introductions. The Elements AT and Verona AT audio towers are… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 08/12 10:00 AM, 0 Comments

Phoenix, AZ – August 10, 2011 — OmniMount, the global leader in consumer and commercial A/V mounting and furniture solutions, is introducing the SCM50, a single ceiling mount ideally suited for public viewing and security applications, designed for flat panels up to 37” and 50 pounds. OmniMount brings the SCM50 to market specifically for installers that need a lightweight, low-cost ceiling solution targeted for smaller TVs and monitors, and has incorporated the thoughtful features that define the OmniMount reputation. The SCM50 is the first mount of its kind to come… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 08/10 10:00 AM, 0 Comments

Phoenix, AZ — OmniMount, the global leader in consumer and commercial A/V solutions, is announcing four new wall furniture pieces with enhanced functionality, performance and a fresh new appearance, targeted at installers looking for a quick component solution and retailers seeking unique furniture options. The Blade1 and Blade2 are single- and double-shelf wall furniture pieces with one-piece frames for fast installation. The Mod1 is a refined single-shelf unit that provides ample space for component management in a small retail-friendly package, and the Mod1FP links together a TV wall mount and… View this story

Rachel Cericola | 03/30 11:23 AM, 7 Comments

Consumers soon will have to find another comfy seating option for their home theaters. Furniture Today reported that Berkline is planning to shutter its business and liquidate all of its assets. CE Pro has confirmed the news with Berkline’s PR rep. The upholstery and home theater seating company has apparently been trying to sell for quite some time. “It has determined that an orderly liquidation of substantially all of the company’s assets is the only viable course of action,” Berkline said in a statement. According to the announcement, the company… View this story

Arlen Schweiger | 03/23 08:15 AM, 1 Comment

Here’s a twist on the often repeated tale of the professional integrator cleaning up a project after the cable guys: the professional integrator doing a project for the cable guys. It’s a good thing for Comcast that Centennial, Colo.-based Logic Integration put in, and eventually won, the bid to outfit the provider’s Denver call/command center, too. Had the corporate cable guys stuck with their original plan, the call center workers might have quit already. According to Logic Integration CEO Shawn Hansson, Comcast was planning on purchasing four TVs from Best… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 03/15 05:52 AM, 0 Comments

In an attempt to clarify a bit of a complicated relationship, Oasis Home Theatre Seating in Ontario, Canada, has issued an announcement about its sales and marketing partnership with Irwin Seating. In a nutshell, Oasis is not only the exclusive re-seller of several product lines made by Irwin Seating Co., but is also now manufacturing two popular home theater seating designs previously made by Irwin. Oasis, which launched in 2006 by former Irwin Seating Company home theater executive Rose Pefhany, stepped into the void created when Irwin decided to cease… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 11/22 07:49 AM,

Media Décor LLC, a manufacturer of concealment systems for flat-screen TVs in framed artwork, has launched its Art and Frame catalog App on iTunes and the iBookstore. The free app allows Apple iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users to view Media Décor’s array of over 70 frame styles and more than 2,000 artwork choices including limited editions. The app can be downloaded at: http://bit.ly/ajOgkH and requires IOS 3.2 or later. Within the pages of the 600-page catalog, Media Décor also showcases its new Finished Corner Frames in the Firenza and… View this story