MARIA YEE INTRODUCES RIDGEBAMBOO™; A TEXTURED, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL NEW FOR CASUAL FURNITURE DESIGN
Lifestyle Designer's RidgeBamboo™ Offers Unique “California Casual” Eco-Friendly Home Furnishings
Santa Cruz, CA, April 2, 2008 – Pioneering furniture design company Maria Yee, Inc. is introducing RidgeBamboo™; a form of solid bamboo with a ridged texture, variegated color and durable surface that is new for casual furniture design.
The striations of RidgeBamboo, created using a proprietary process, provide a robust, sturdy surface that ages gracefully and requires little maintenance. Consumers who value both function and form especially favor the “California casual” look and feel as embodied by RidgeBamboo. Besides minimizing scratches and fingerprints that high-sheen surfaces often accentuate, the ridged surface offers added depth and color dimension that flat, one-dimensional surfaces can't provide.
Maria Yee's introduction of RidgeBamboo complies with the company's goal of consistently providing new, unique options in EcoLuxury™ home furnishings.
"The green movement is quickly gaining momentum, however statistics show consumers choose products based on good design first," said president Maria Yee. "Our RidgeBamboo gives consumers an aesthetically pleasing alternative that is as eco-friendly as they come and, until now, hasn't been available in the casual furnishings market."
RidgeBamboo, a form of Maria Yee’s rapidly renewable BambooTimbre™, is made entirely from Moso bamboo, one of the finest timber bamboo species. Like BambooTimbre, it is made using a proprietary process where bamboo culms, or stalks, are flattened, layered and bonded together to make solid boards as thick as 8 inches. These boards are then used to create Maria Yee’s EcoLuxury furnishings with the designer’s signature pure joinery, where no nails or screws are used.
“We use very simple designs to showcase the beauty of the material,” Yee said. "The natural colors and multi-dimensional look and feel of the RidgeBamboo complement the clean line design."
Maria Yee, Inc. will be showing four RidgeBamboo collections - Tahoe, Amador, Shasta and Sonora - at the April High Point Market in its showroom located at 118 E. Kivett Drive. Included in these collections is an 82-inch dining table with a steel stand, leather and steel dining chairs, a console table with matching end tables and a cocktail table.
About Maria Yee Inc.
Maria Yee Inc. is a lifestyle design company, offering uniquely crafted California contemporary home furnishings through the use of pure joinery and inventive materials such as BambooTimbre™. Acclaimed for her clean line design, Maria Yee’s creative bamboo furniture, handcrafted in her patent-pending BambooTimbre and BambooJoinery™ system, is one of the most innovative, renewable new products. Headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA with manufacturing campuses in China, Maria Yee distributes bamboo, solid hardwood, leather furniture and home accessories to retailers and design showrooms nationwide. For more information, please visit www.mariayee.com or call (831) 457-2900.
