Wiktor Borowski at Sklar Furnishings

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

December 5, 2019

On Sunday, December 15th 2019, master glass artist Wiktor Borowski will be at Sklar Furnishings between the hours of 1:00PM and 4:00PM. What an incredible opportunity to meet the master glass artist himself and get some of his whimsical and unique pieces signed to truly make them one-of-a-kind. You can either bring in your own or buy one of his pieces at the event! No RSVP needed!

“Glass Studio Borowski was founded in 1990 by renowned glass artist Stanislaw Borowski whos works have been internationally exhibited for 25 years in major glass museums.

In 1993 Stanislaw’s sons Pawel and Wiktor Borowski took the helm of the glass studio. In addition to Stanislaw’s own one-of-a-kind objects, they now design a collection of studio glass that has become very popular with art and glass collectors.

Pawel and Wiktor Borowski’s work is very contemporary and their collection is known for its unusual shapes and bold colors. Their works are bold, fresh, creative and avant-garde. Their objects are shown by international art galleries and by the finest European design studios.” – Borowski Studio

We are incredibly honoured to welcome Wiktor Borowski to or showroom on Sunday, December 15th, 2019! Start or even extend your Borowski collection as we carry many of his magnificent pieces.

Your Space. Your Lifestyle. Your Choice.

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

June 12, 2018

Interior design can be a daunting process. With so many furniture types, brands, fabrics and colors on the market, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all of the choices. At Sklar Furnishings, this challenge excites our designers and helping our clients navigate this incredible space is something we are passionate about. Whether you are looking for a single piece or inspiration for an entire room, our professional and experienced designers look forward to helping you realize your vision.

We are extremely proud of our customer-centric process. It all starts with a visit to our showroom. One of our talented Design Associates will greet you and will be available to guide you and answer questions as you stroll through our 22,000 square foot showroom. Following your lead, whether you want to just browse uninterrupted, have a specific request, or not sure where to start, your needs are always top of mind.

If you would like to continue with a Designer, the next step would be a home visit. This unique and valuable component of our process ensures that your Designer really gets a feel for your style and needs. Reviewing your current space, furniture, and style, your Designer can create or modify a floor plan to ensure that space planning, balance and comfort are all addressed equally in the finished look.

After the home visit, your Designer will finalize the designs to include furniture, fabric, finishes, and even paint and wallpaper colors to accentuate the new look. A presentation of the detailed floor plan will allow you to provide feedback and update the plan as necessary, making any final touches and confirming your requirements and needs.

Throughout the delivery phase, your Designer will update you regularly, keeping you aware of timing and confirming the schedule of our white glove delivery team. Oftentimes we have seasonal customers, who have winter homes in Florida, or summer homes elsewhere in the country or abroad. We personalize our delivery methods to ensure you’re completely satisfied.

Whether you are looking for a single piece, design advice, space planning, or custom services, Sklar Furnishings is excited to be a part of your journey and help you to realize your design vision. We look forward to seeing you in our Showroom soon.

Borowski Glass Studio at Flamingo Gardens and in our Showroom

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

May 4, 2018

We just can’t get enough of Borowski’s whimsical and masterly created hand-blown glass creations and are incredibly excited about their upcoming exhibit at Flamingo Gardens – their US premier!

Presented by Oggetti,the exhibition features over 70 imaginative works of art in glass and metal in installations throughout Flamingo Gardens. Entitled “Fables and Fairytales” the colorful light objects and sculptures are reminiscent of mythical creatures from beloved fables and fairytales.

We are incredibly honored to welcome Wiktor Borowski to our showroom on Sunday, May 27 to sign our customer’s Borowski glass pieces. What an incredible opportunity to meet a master glass blowing artist, get a one-of-a-kind autographed piece of art, and extend your Flamingo Garden experience to your own home.

US PREMIER OF BOROWSKI GLASS BOTANICAL GARDEN EXHIBIT AT FLAMINGO GARDENS
Presented by: Oggetti

Spring 2018 Warehouse Sale

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

April 18, 2018

Twice a year, typically in the spring and fall, we host our much-anticipated Warehouse Sale. This is an incredibly popular event, with up to 80% off the retail price of high-end luxury furnishings.

An amazing opportunity to find inspirational pieces you might not normally consider for your home. With special one-off pieces, unique and limited furnishings, this one day only, first-come-first-served event is not to be missed!

We showcase contemporary furnishings year round in our 22,000 square foot showroom and always keep the latest new arrivals on the floor. We want to pass along huge savings to our valued clients when we turn over the store – that is, when we create new looks and feature new designs from the ever-growing new arrivals we feature.

We get hundreds, if not thousands, of new products each year and keeping our showroom fresh is the best way for us to inspire our clients and get your imagination running. This also means that we need to make room!

This year our Spring Warehouse Sale is on Saturday April 28th, 2018 – and it’s one day only. Doors open at 9am, but if you’re like us and you want the best selection, arrive early (yes, there is always a lineup to get in). And remember, there are no holds, no early entry and no second-chances! We hope to see you there.

Sklar Furnishings Spring Warehouse Sale
One Day Only – Saturday April 28, 2018
Doors open from 9am-11am, closed for lunch, and re-open from 1pm-3pm

More details will be available at www.sklarfurnishings.com
Location Details: Sklar Furnishings Distribution Centre —
SW 12th Ave, Bldg 5 Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 – Quadrant Business Centre
Tel. 561.405.9881

*Images Shown For Reference Only From The 2017 Warehouse Sale. Products Seen No Longer Available

Sklar Wins Best of Houzz 2017 Award

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

January 24, 2017

We are thrilled to announce that Sklar Furnishings has been awarded a Best of Houzz 2017 award for our outstanding customer service. Best of Houzz awards are based on reviews from among the site’s 40 million users, and includes design firms from all over US and around the world.

“We are so pleased to award Best of Houzz 2017 to this incredible group of talented and customer-focused professionals,” writes Liza Hausman, VP of Industry Marketing for Houzz. “Each of these businesses was singled out for recognition by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts for helping to turn their home improvement dreams into reality.”

This is Sklar’s second Best of Houzz award, following on from our 2015 award for design. On behalf of the entire team, we would like to thank our fantastic clients for making this exciting achievement possible.

Happy Holidays from Sklar!

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

December 22, 2016

On behalf of the entire Sklar family, we would like to wish every one of our clients and friends a very happy holiday season. It has been a privilege to work with so many fun, fearless and creative lovers of contemporary design over the past 12 months, and we can’t wait to see what 2017 holds. We know we are going to travel far and wide in search of new designers, products and styles to bring back to Boca Raton; that we will meet a number of you reading this right now for the first time; and that our ongoing 15th anniversary celebrations will continue right through the year with events, sales and charity fundraisers.

We hope you enjoy a happy, safe and very festive holiday season. As always, Sklar will be closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The whole team looks forward to continuing to advise and inspire you from January 2nd, 2017.

Sincerely,

Pat and Rick Howard
Founders, Sklar Furnishings

Real Men Wear Pink

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

September 28, 2016

To help bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer, Sklar Furnishings President, Rick Howard, has pledged to wear a pink shirt for the entire month of October. In addition, we pledge to raise a minimum of $2,500 for American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k walk on October 22.

To help us meet our donation amount, we will be raffling off a Limited Edition Nima Oberoi “Heart with Wings” sculpture (value $650). Tickets are available on location at Sklar Furnishings. Prices for tickets are the following:

  • 1 ticket: $5
  • 5 tickets: $10

The raffle draw will be on October 31. You do not need to be present at the time of drawing to win. For more information, contact us here.

 

Design Excellence Awards 2016

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

September 26, 2016

Sklar Furnishings recently won several awards at the Design Excellence Awards 2016 ceremony by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). We won awards in the following categories:

  • Best Residential Bathroom Design, Transitional
  • Best Industry Partner Showroom
  • Best Industry Partner Website Design

We want to thank all of our customers, staff, suppliers, and other partners who have made this possible!

For more information on ASID, click here.

Art with a Heart

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

August 25, 2016

You hear it all the time — “we have amazing or generous or kind or smart staff on our team”. Well, at Sklar Furnishings we truly do, and we would love to share the story.

Felipe Galindo, who has been with us for over 10 years as our head installer, is all of the above. Felipe has a wonderful gift — he is an extremely accomplished artist who does portraits that take your breath away, they are so realistic (www.fgportraits.net). A few weeks ago, he decided to hand-paint simple white canvas running shoes in many different themes, from Frozen to Star Wars to Dory and anything else you could imagine.

Felipe’s plan is simple — he will take all of the profits from selling them and buy shoes (which again he will decorate) and distribute them to kids in need. Selling Wacky Shoes at $50 a pair has already allowed him to send 8 pairs to his native Colombia, and to purchase another 20 pairs which are promised for the Florence Fuller Grade 4 Snoopy class graduation August 4th — guess who will be on all of those shoes!

If you are interested in getting a one-of-a-kind pair of hand-painted running shoes, contact Felipe at https://www.facebook.com/wackyhelpingshoes/.

Art with a heart, indeed! Felipe, we are proud to have you on Team Sklar and applaud your generosity and kindness.

15 Trends from Milan Design Week 2016

By Sklar Furnishings

News and Events

April 22, 2016

Just freshly home from a week at the Milan Furniture Fair and we wanted to share with you all of the trends that we saw. Milan is the premier and largest furniture fair in the world and if you want to be on the cutting edge of the new products it is a must– for Designers and retailers alike.

In no particular order here are all of the hot new trends that we saw.

1. Bunching tables mixing soft and hard materials – we have seen the groupings of several cocktail tables together for at least the past three years but this year there was an added dimension. If there were four tables one might be marble, one might be wood, one glass and lastly a fabric ottoman. As well and this might seem obvious but they are all different heights and shapes. It requires a fair amount of space but it is such an amazing look that we recommend you remove some excess furniture to give you the space to do this. This look also works equally well at the end of the sofa – as end tables. The beauty of this is that the soft fabric covered piece can be pulled away and used as extra seating. Genius!!!

2. Blue and brown – We had dinner with the President of one of our vendors prior to the start of the fair. When I asked what the big color would be this year she answered “blue with brown” without hesitation and it only took visiting the first 3-4 showrooms to realize Francesca was dead on. The brown is not the heavy chocolate brown from years ago but a warm caramel or mocha color. The blue runs the total gamut from the palest of baby blue to a rich deep cobalt blue. With walnut remaining the number one choice in wood this color way works beautifully with it. We saw blue in accent pillows, in fabric coverings on dining chairs and sofas and in lacquer on case goods. Walking the streets of Milan we saw the fashion industry has also embraced this color way. Accents of citron, green or purple are often used with great effect.

3. Velvet and velour – This fabric seems to go in and out of favor and I can tell you – at least in Milan, it is very much in vogue right now. Rich deep colors and fun pop art colors, it does not seem to matter. Traditional or modern – all the factories were using the rich soft warm velvet and velour fabrics. With modern technology the care is painless and the longevity extended. We saw it in our hotel lobby and you know the wear and tear that can take. Bright green colored chairs looked as fresh as their purple counterparts.

4. Shaped chairs – This particular trend took me a bit off guard. The backs of the chairs are mostly rounded and soft. Many have small wings meant to wrap around you and many more have exaggerated head pieces. We literally saw this everywhere as is evident with the volume of pictures we have. They were mostly incredibly comfortable because of the lumbar support. You will see lots of these in our showroom in the coming months.

5. Copper for an accent only – Some vendors embraced this new bright metal but only a few. Interestingly one was Paolo Pininfarina (for Reflex) who we all know has been ahead of the pack his whole life. I would bet money on the introduction and use of copper by this time next year.

6. Bronze metal – this is definitely here to stay. The dark bronze has been embraced as the new neutral and it really can be utilized that way. We saw it mostly on the struts and supports on book shelves, wall units and bed rails. It seems to go perfectly with the therma oak all the Italians use but as well it looks rich and warm with the grey stained woods and lacquers. The kitchen show was running at the same time and there we saw the bronze used on large spaces like the drawer and door fronts. Again because of technology and all the advancements in material finishing and care the kitchen manufacturers assured us it would require no more maintenance than wood or lacquer doors. Once again we saw this metallic influence in fashion showing up in shoes and purses.

7. TV’s mounted behind glass or mirrors – These were available last year and we embraced the concept and currently have one on display in our showroom. Ours is behind a mirror which is hung on top of a dresser in a bedroom setting. The beauty of this of course is that you do not see the TV until you want to turn it on. This year we saw this technology on sliding and/or fixed wardrobe doors and the manufacturers of this amazing technology have added many more sizes.

8. Fringe on carpets – We first noticed this in some of the hotel lobbies and restaurants and thought it might be because the carpets were older and more traditional. Not the case – we saw fringe in many of the booths and at several carpet vendors we buy from. At a dinner one night I sat beside a carpet designer and she said this trend started in Northern Europe and is now everywhere. She personally uses it to soften the look and finds it most effective on contemporary carpets.

9. Elaborate mix of fabrics by tone and texture – Mixing color and texture is not new but we saw a fabulous shift to tone on tone with all kinds of specialty fabrics – pleated silks, soft boucles, rich velvets and brushed cottons. Usually the sofa is covered in a main neutral and the elaborate mix comes from pillows or throws added to the piece.

10. Mirrors have become works of art – Absolutely every vendor had stunning mirrors – all sizes, all shapes, all different uses. The frames ranged from curled or wavy to straight to one that looked like it was shattered in the middle. Many were hung in pairs or in groups of three. We all know how much a room expands with the use of mirrors but now you will have a piece of art on the wall as well.

11. Modular case goods – We saw this in enough places that I will go out on a limb and call it a trend – if not it is still a wonderful idea. Square or rectangular boxes of different sizes have been engineered to fit together, stack or hang on the wall. Most can be finished in wood, lacquer or a mix of both. Some have doors, some are open at the front – starting to get the picture? The options are really limitless. When used in a bedroom they can be attached near the bed and flow right into a book case or desk area.

12. Floor to ceiling book shelves to be used as room dividers – Almost every case good and upholstery vendor had their own version, all you have to do is choose what you love. Most had inserts of boxes or half boxes to add dimension and interest. Some shelves were hung at angles which means your books could be displayed in a unique fashion. Many homes have large open areas and this is a fabulous and attractive solution to both storage and to warming up a too large area.

13. Matt finish – High gloss is not dead but matt is coming on stronger and stronger. It may be a reaction to the popularity of the live edge tables we have been seeing for the last several years which of course are not polished but even the “luxury” vendors like Fendi, Minotti and Giorgio are all showing their principle pieces like dining tables and bedroom sets in a soft matt finish.

14. Walnut – There is not much to say about this continued embracing of walnut. It continues to be the wood of choice for almost everything including kitchens. In order to please the die hards some vendors offer a chocolate or grigio (grey) stain.

15. Tables at the sides of sofas – This is a look that I absolutely loved. A smaller dimensioned and slightly lower console is placed along the chaise side of a sectional or along only half of the back of the piece. If you have several modular pieces in a sectional you can break up all of the upholstery by tucking a table in between two of the pieces. Great use of space and a great look.

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