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“Great Taste” to feature Karges Furniture

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Deerfield Beach, FL June 5, 2004--Platinum Television Group is pleased to announce the selection of Karges Furniture for a segment on “Unique Furnishing Designs” on Accents for Finer Living for its innovative, educational television series Great Taste.

A family-owned business for five generations, Karges Furniture, based in Evansville, IN, has been hand carving fine furniture for more than a century. It is considered “the last great American furniture company.” Because of their meticulous handcrafting and completely custom-made furniture, the 110 artisans here are “making tomorrow’s antiques,” according to some.

One reason for its longstanding reputation for quality is its belief in integrity—they keep their word and deliver what they promise: finest detailed handcarved furniture with tradition.

Over the decades, as competitors focused on cost-saving materials and quicker production methods, Karges refused to compromise quality for profit. This rich history and quality commitment strengthen the company's longstanding reputation and assure you that Karges-by-Hand is the best furniture you can buy.

Beginning with the finest mahogany, cherry and walnut acquired from all over the world, Karges mills the raw lumber into the components needed to build furniture. Nothing is mass-produced; there are no assembly lines; and everything is built to order as indicated by the customer. All parts are assembled and fit by hand and are unique to that piece of furniture. The world-famous finish, a 20-step process, that is applied to completed wood products, gives Karges part of its reputation. Much of the furniture is hand decorated, with rosettes carved, dolphins as a table pedestal, symbols of the arts carved into a breakfront. Artists use a method called “pounce and pattern” on the wood, making each piece original. Some wood actually looks like stone after this technique is applied.

More than 300 standard items are produced, with many offering structural options, and at least 50 finishes and decoration choices available.

For more information, see http://www.karges.com/.

The Great Taste segment will feature details on how their artisans create the furniture, the history of the company, which was begun in 1886, design facts, and educational information on how to recognize quality in fine furniture, how the finishes are done, and a sampling of some of the furniture.












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ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM ANNOUNCES “THE GREATEST ALBUM COVERS THAT NEVER WERE” EXHIBIT

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Todd Mesek                                  
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame                             
and Museum                                                           
216.515.1286                                                                
tmesek@rockhall.org                                       

Contact: Michael Ochs    
Michael Ochs Archives
310-306-6111
michael@michaelochs.com

ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
ANNOUNCES “THE GREATEST ALBUM COVERS THAT NEVER WERE” EXHIBIT

One hundred graphic and fine artists asked to create album art for their favorite recording artist

CLEVELAND - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum announces a new temporary exhibit, The Greatest Albums Covers That Never Were, featuring the artwork of established graphic and fine artists. The exhibit will open to the public on May 30, 2003 in the Ahmet M. Ertegun Exhibition Hall and run until September 28, 2003.

Conceived by music archivist Michael Ochs and fine artist Craig Butler, this project takes album cover art to a whole new level. One hundred established graphic and fine artists were approached to create the definitive album cover of their favorite recording artist. Each chose an iconic musical subject from the 1940s to the present and from the genres of rock, blues, jazz, country and soul music. The result is an original and highly creative collection of contemporary art.

“The motto here at the Michael Ochs Archives has always been, there's no time like the past. So, my artist friend Craig Butler and I have created The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were exhibition to give today's artists the chance to enhance our musical past,” said Michael Ochs. “Author Kurt Vonnegut, musician Graham Nash, photographer William Claxton, artist Ralph Steadman and approximately ninety other working artists from all mediums have created fantasy album covers of their favorite recording artists. The best of these collected works will be showcased throughout the United States for two years, commencing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
on May 30th of this year. Never before has such an assemblage of talent joined together to change the face of pop music, and there's no time like the present for such a facelift.”

John Van Hamersveld (designer of the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour), hadn’t done an album cover since 1984. He told the Los Angeles Times, “The demise of the album cover via CD and the emphasis on MTV images ruined it for me. I haven’t done one in so long that I’m taking pleasure in doing one in the larger format, which gives that dynamic of how people lived through that kind of singular image.”

A selection of approximately 50 works comprise an exhibition that will open at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in May 2003 and then travel to U.S. museums, including Experience Music Project and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, through 2004. In addition, a richly illustrated catalogue with 100 full-color reproductions of the entire collection will be produced. For more information visit www.TheArtRocks.com.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum exists to educate its visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and significance of rock and roll music. The Museum carries out this mission through its efforts to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret this art form.





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Outdoor Wood Furniture from Creative Woodwork International is Now Available at Minneapolis-area Specialty Stores

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Minneapolis May 14, 2003 – Creative Woodwork International (CWI), a Minneapolis-based, privately held U.S. company that imports naturally handsome outdoor wood furniture from Vietnam, announces that its furniture is now available at several Minneapolis-area specialty stores, including: Bay Tree, Excelsior, Minn.; Greentouch – The Landscape Store, Minnetonka, Minn.; and Tangletown Gardens, Minneapolis. In addition, Target Corporation now offers selected CWI items online on the Marshall Field’s section of its Web site.

“Casual furniture retailers and specialty stores in Arizona, California and Oregon have been selling our furniture,” says Bernadette Carroll, president, Creative Woodwork International (CWI). “Since we are headquartered in Minneapolis, we wanted to make our furniture available at retail locally for the spring and summer seasons.”

On Saturday, June 7, 2003, during the annual “Art on the Lake” festival in Excelsior, Minn., Carroll and Buck Campbell, CWI’s award-winning furniture designer, will be at Bay Tree, 261 Water Street, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. to introduce CWI’s outdoor wood furniture.

About Creative Woodwork International (CWI)

Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., Creative Woodwork International (CWI) is a privately held U.S. company that imports beautiful and enduring outdoor wood furniture from Vietnam. Our manufacturer skillfully crafts our furniture with strong, sustainable hardwoods. CWI provides retailers with a new, and superior, alternative to meet consumers’ growing demand for high-quality, durable, and affordable wood furniture that brings comfort and style to outdoor living areas. More information on Creative Woodwork International, including a photo catalog featuring our naturally handsome hardwood furniture, is available on the Web at www.creative-woodwork.net.

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