Richard Frinier's Daydream Collection
The Out Crowd
July 1, 2003
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JANICE FELDMAN
“I really do live the way I’ve promoted my business for 25 years,” says Janice Feldman, owner of the furniture showrooms Janus et Cie in Los Angeles, New York, and High Point, N.C. Her house in Montecito, Calif., is, she says, “absolutely heaven for me, and truly my sanctuary. I have a beautiful garden and gorgeous landscape all around me, and my doors and windows are open constantly. When I come back to the house, I am restored, I am rejuvenated, and I am inspired.” (Click image to enlarge); function voidFunc() { } voidFunc(); "Christian Liaigre's Atlante aluminum and teak collection at Janus et Cie.")
Feldman, who started out as a painter and “always loved gardens and always loved history,” recently opened her New York and North Carolina showrooms. “I got to a place in my personal life where I had the experience, the confidence, the respect in the business, and the intuition to make a move,” says Feldman. “I had this personal power that came to me. It was quite amazing. I knew that we wanted to go into New York and that we wanted to make the business into a national company. Then three years ago I decided to start a retail division. We’re not looking for every single customer. We’re looking for the top 200 retail customers in the U.S.” (Click image to enlarge)
Feldman’s interest in sustainable resources and “green” manufacturing techniques is an important aspect of her work, and she is excited about furniture lines made of environmentally friendly materials such as Hularo, a synthetic weaving fiber.
“I’ve been involved in the green side of things industrially for many years. I invested in a company years ago that manufactures lumber from recycled milk containers. It’s a piece of my business that a lot of people on the more decorative side don’t know about. But we supply lumber to the federal government, to municipalities, to universities.
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