Wood Doors, Custom Furniture

You Have Probably Heard - The “Rich” Get Richer And The “Poor” Get Poorer

Ever wonder why? Studies show it has very little to do with how much money a family earns. It has more to do with having an investment state of mind. The ability to decern the difference between an expense and a long term investment. Most Americans are focused on how cheap each item can be purchased on sale prices with little attention given to true value. While this works well for expense purchases on commodities such as food, clothing, cars, computers etc. this never works well on long term big ticket purchases such as your home, building products or home furnishings etc. The reason is, your home should be an investment and as it gets older it appreciates in value with the exception of things that have to be replaced because they are worn out or become out of date.

The so called Rich “never purchase” low quality homes, building products or home furnishings that have to be replaced. Maybe as you were growing up your mom and dad or grand parents might have said something to the effect that they would rather save up for one good item that will last and they could be proud to own, rather than purchase many cheap low quality items just to fill the room. For Example: Solid wood hand made furniture, cabinets, counter tops or floor materials made from genuine solid wood, marble, stone, or granite verses man made plywood, veneered particle boards, tile, formica or corian etc.

Solid wood furniture, cabinets, and genuine stone will never need to be replaced and will age with grace and become more valuable over time. “The Rich Get Richer” The man made furniture with fake backs, plywood’s, veneers, tile, faux stone, corian or formica will have to be replaced over and over again. “The Poor Get Poorer”

When you purchase investment quality furnishings, doors, lighting and hardware they will appreciate and keep up with inflation or exceed most other investments. For this reason, becoming wealthy has very little to do with a higher education or having a lot of extra money. It is truly making wise decisions and a state of mind that allows for you to pay once for a good value and continue to grow wealth while enjoying living in your investment. Not to mention this type of investing has many other benefits, such as priceless family heirlooms that have meaning and the ability to pass on your legacy to future generations.

Throughout our American history, no matter the economic conditions investing in your self, your home and your legacy has always paid off. This is the big secret to building true wealth. Simply declare your self worthy of the best, invest in it and enjoy.

A Ferrari And A Yugo Are Both Cars, And A Diamond Or A Cubic Zirconia Set In Fine Gold Look Almost The Same; The Fake Is An Expense - The Genuine Is An Investment

We are trying to get your attention. In the market place today the copying of American and European handmade custom investment quality furniture, doors, lighting, cabinets and hardware designs is running ramped.

The use of high tech machines and cheap foreign labor make it possible to make paste board and veneers look like quality products. There is no investment value in these items and they do not compare to handmade investment quality furnishings built to stand the test of time. In fact, many of the famous name brands we all grew up believing were high quality furnishings have now sold out in the name of profit to cheap foreign production manufacturing, mostly due to current government trade policy and corporate greed.

Scottsdale Art Factory Will Never Sell Out Its Family Heritage To Cheap Foreign Mass Production Manufacturers For Any Reason.

Custom Handmade For Less Money Than Production Copies

It has been our experience that custom built investment quality furnishing, doors, gates, lighting and hardware do not particularly cost more than the mass production copies, this is because many of the dealers work on markups that often reach over 400%. Also keep in mind, most mass production items never become more valuable over time, and usually end up as garage sale items. This results is the true loss of your investment and the subsequent need to re-spend, setting up a cycle of financial loss that never ends.

Direct Factory- No Middle Men- No Over Seas Shipping- Always A Better Value

How Can Handmade In The USA To Investment Quality Be Less than name brand production furnishings, doors, lighting, etc? the answer is simple, We Are The Factory! When you purchase from us directly there is no middle man, no shipping from over seas, no box’s, no freight, no distributors, and no unnecessary markups. This means you get the best value on each and every purchase. This also means there is only one price from the factory and when you are purchasing an investment quality furnishing, door, lighting etc. you are investing in an item that will become more valuable over time. These benefits combined with your pride of ownership of a truly custom one of a kind piece especially designed for you, creates a wining combination for any consumer.

We Guarantee Our Price To Be Less

Bring Us Any Major Big Name Brand Designer Furnishings, Manufacturers or Retailers Price on Furniture, Doors, Cabinets, Gates, Lighting, Or Hardware in writing and we will beat the price! This quote can be from any reputable manufacturer or retailer, such as Ralph Lauren, American Drew, Bernhardt, Baker, Century, Drexel Heritage, Hancock, Lane, Thomasville, Vanguard, Robb and Stuckys, Ladlows, Broyhill, Ethan Allen, Stickily, just to mention a few, or any other comparable custom handmade manufacturer worldwide. We Will Beat their Price, Guaranteed! In addition we will deliver our much higher investment quality product, custom made to our standards, designed for you just the way your want it.

Note: Since we produce products in our industry that are comparable to a Ferrari this offer does not include off brands made in China, and other cheap labor force foreign land manufacturers. this includes wholesalers, retailers or discounters of substandard products which have no regard for value or human health including imported furnishings, doors, cabinets, gates, lighting or hardware that are made from compositions, core fillers, faux casted copies, faux fabrics, low quality machine split and re-polished leathers, veneered wood products or stone over particle boards made with formaldehyde resin or lead paint finishes etc.

Family Heirloom Becomes Priceless

Many of these furnishings are still found all over the world – now in museums, classical estates, or in your very own home as a family heirloom. Some pieces are hundreds of years old, and as they have aged have become more beautiful from natural aging. The oxidation of natural patinas, regular wear, use, and time can age a fine furnishing and transform these furnishings into unique pieces of artwork. Examples of this quality and history are everywhere. They range from George Washington’s handmade desk to the Besançon cabinet shown top of this page or your grandma’s or grandpa’s old furnishings etc. that has been passed through the generations of your family.

This French Renaissance Cabinet Was Rediscovered November 22, 2005-August 5,2007 At The Getty Center. This Cabinet, French, built about 1580 with late-19th-century additions. As recently as five years ago, most people believed this cabinet was a 19th-century piece purporting to be a 16th-century cabinet—in other words,a Fake.

When scholars reexamined it in 2001, they came to a very different conclusion. They now believe that the cabinet was made in 1580 and is one of the rarest and most valuable cabinets from the French Renaissance in the United States.

This exhibition tells the story of this discovery, offering a case study in how we learn about art. Renaissance Revival cabinet,1800s. Paul F. Miller, curator, Preservation Society of Newport County, discusses the cabinet’s changing fortunes at the Getty Center.

Is It a Fake?
The cabinet was in suspiciously pristine condition and the surface was coated with colored wax, suggesting that someone had tried to make it look older than it really was. Experts concluded that the cabinet was a product of the Renaissance Revival of the 19th century, when American industrial magnates snapped up Renaissance-style furniture, including many fakes, from cash-strapped European aristocrats.

Getty paid $1,700 for the cabinet shown at the top of this page, a far cry from the asking price of $46,640 some 50 years before. The dubious cabinet was never displayed in the Getty Museum—until now. Preparators move the Getty cabinet out of storage, time to reconsider.
In 2001, curators in France organized an exhibition on 16th-century cabinetmaker Hugues Sambin. After a Getty curator visited Écouen to meet with scholars there, she decided to launch a thorough reexamination of the Museum’s cabinet. Curators, conservators, and scientists teamed up to conduct research and scientific analysis. Science can help authenticate an object by dating the materials from which it was made.

The team’s first scientific tool was dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating. Using this method, they discovered that the oak tree used to make the cabinet’s structural panels was harvested in late 1574 or early 1575 in Burgundy, a region in southeastern France.

The rough marks on the back of the cabinet, for example, were made by a hand-held saw and a type of plane used in the 16th century.

The walnut and oak parts of the cabinet also have identical marks from a “bench dog,” a toothed iron clip used to secure wood to a workbench. This suggests that both woods were worked on the same bench at roughly the same time.

Under a layer of red velvet fabric in the cabinet, the team found old nail holes from an earlier lining. These holes held traces of the original 16th-century fabric that still lines the drawer. Analysis of the tacks and tack holes on the door of the cabinet provided further proof of authenticity.

The exhibition is located at the Getty Center, Museum, South Pavilion.

What Does The French Reniance Have To Do With American Furniture ?

A lot more than one might think. Every creative enterprise is always built on a foundation that was laid down by its predecessors. People who themselves were in turn dependent on the groundwork laid down by those who came before. This rule of mans art and enterprise is never more applicable than it is to hand made furniture. Furniture has been hand made for hundreds of years. In times past the same as today men,women and their families were known for their good reputation and their craftsmanship. In fact in the not to distant past the quality of your craft and product allowed you certain privileges. These privileges depended upon a mans word or promise and the true quality of his work. The better these were the higher one could rise. In the case of furnishing, If they were built right they would stand the test of time and become antiquities. It also meant these artisens would be remenbered far past their life times and become imortal in the harts and minds of the true collector and others. This French cabinet and other items like it set the bar for most american furniture makers

An Example Of How Furnishings Hand Built With Pride Of Craftsmanship Stand The Test Of Time. This example also applies to the hand made furnishing you purchase today

Every creative enterprise is always built on a foundation that was laid down by its predecessors. People who themselves were in turn dependent on the groundwork laid down by those who came before. Gustave Stickley’s impact was felt far and wide at the time, he became a major factor in American furniture design. Gustave Stickly and the Greene’s and Halls were the greatest early influence on the Marbella brothers concepts. These pioneers had laid down the foundation that the Marbella brothers would build upon in America.

Still building upon this foundation,is a direct decedent of the Marbella brothers. World renown artist, master craftsman in his own right and designer H.J.Nick carries on to this day the same ideals, methods and master craftsmanship.

Today known as Scottsdale Art Factory located in Scottsdale Arizona this factory is currently building some of the worlds finest handmade entrance doors, hand carved theme doors, custom investment quality furniture, hand-forged lighting chandeliers and hardware. All built to world class standards set down by these predecessors.

H.J.Nick’s Scottsdale Art Factory is one of the largest handmade in America manufacturers. Featuring a state of the art design department headed by H.J.Nick himself. Designs built today are a joint collaboration between the customer and their design department. Using high tech and low tech these investment quality designs are limited only by the customers imagination.