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Empiric Today

Fresh palette's are mingling with faux fruit on the showroom floor for summer. New pieces are on their way with many items marked down to make room. All sale merchandise can be viewed in the sale section of our website here.

Comparative Shopping - Faux Bamboo Bench

Description: Petite refinished bench lacquered in white and re-upholstered in indoor/outdoor Sunbrella Chip Dove.

Dimensions:
38"W X 16"D X 25"H
96.5cm W X 40.75cm D X 63.5cm H
Materials: Wood, Fabric
Condition: Excellent, Restored
Number of items: 1

Item ID: 16148
Price: $795

White Faux Bamboo Bench

Currently listed here on 1st dibs

Price
$1,600

Happy Earth Day!

Support our planet. Buy vintage.

At Empiric.

Media Storage at Empiric

New Fabrics

For all upholstery as well as by the yard.

Fresh Faces on The Floor

New Rugs and Sofa's coming soon!

Features!

Measurable, tangible features combine to make a cabinet of enduring quality. These details make a cabinet maker or manufacturing engineer proud. And isnt it refreshing how this literature lacks the ubiquitous branding of the modern pitch? Oh, the old days.....

Recent Additions To The Showroom

And much much more......

New images added today to our catalog of prints. View the collection in its entirety here.

Knight Moves

Thank you to Kyle and her write up of the store last week. Read her post and see some store shots here.

Empiric in GenLux Magazine

The beautiful and talented Melissa McClure reminisced about visiting the store for inspiration in the new issue of Genlux Magazine.

Empiric Today

Welcome 2010

"Christmas Shopping on the 150 Deluxe"

"1st Stop Empiric on Beverly"

via Alex de Cordoba on Flickr

Gift Guide

Get them what they really want.

Click image above for our picks.

Jean Prouve

Jean Prouvé apprenticed as a black smith before opening his own workshop/studio where these designs were produced. Most of his designs show his amazing intuition for the material properties of wood and metal. Practical efficiency and accessibility without compromising aesthetics was of primary interest in his work. These are values also shared by Eames, McCobb and Frankl, some of his mid-century American contemporaries. He collaborated with architects and other designers throughout his prolific career and the results are even more impressive a generation later .

Jean Prouvé (8 April 1901 - 23 March 1984)

all images from Jean Prove, Gallerie Patrick Seguin Paris

Introducing Melissa Licht

Empiric's (not so new) full time sales associate, Melissa Licht, grew up in LA frequenting the LA County Museum of Art, the Natural History Museum and taking classes at Barnsdale Art Park.







After getting her BA in Art History at the University of Vermont, Melissa moved to Boston where she earned a Certificate of Decorative Arts at The Boston Architectural College.




When Melissa recently moved back to LA to pursue a career in Interior Design, Empiric was lucky enough to hire her. Welcome Melissa!

New Arrivals at Empiric!

Sense of Humor

If you are going to commit yourself to any task for a while, you'll need discipline, passion, desire and a sense of humor to keep you going. Not necessarily in that order. The cartoonist, sculptor, author and engineer Rube Goldberg had all those qualities. In 1931 the Merriam-Webster dictionary adopted the word "Rube Goldberg" as an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complex means. At Empiric we strive to serve our customers in the most direct and simple means possible but sometimes our days feel more like the cartoon above.