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Effective July 2009 - GBRoberts Partners with Howard Blake & Associates
GBRoberts  began working directly with Howard Blake and Associates. Howard Blake and Associates is a custom design furniture manufacturer and the leading provider of hotel and restaurant furniture.  They work with many of the leading hotel companies throughout the world to create a quality finished product, with unsurpassed durability. The relationship includes having Howard Blake and Associates fabricate Roberts designs through their state of the art, manufacturing facilities. These facilities are located in the United States as well as in Asia. Roberts also works with Howard Blake and Associates in creating exciting designs for new projects as well as building designs specified by design teams.

Howard Blake & Associates is a proud member of the American Hotel and Lodging Association. Look for  them in the Ultimate Buyers Guide at www.ahla.com .  They are also a certified MBE, with membership in the Nevada Minority Supplier Development Council and the National Minority Supplier Development Council.

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March 2009 - GBRoberts is featured in a Seattle Magazine Article:

BREATHING ROOM, Feng Shui-inspired furniture frees up space in a downtown condo.
"Roberts' strategy for keeping finite square footage feeling spacious began with a little feng shui. While Roberts' style is frankly worldly — he's known for furniture simultaneously sleek and curvy, like hot-rod cars or pin-up girls — it turns out that the very curviness of his designs gives them feng shui credentials. Because feng shui teaches that the smooth flow of chi, or energy, throughout a room is essential to visual harmony, the lazy S-turns of Roberts' furniture form an unseen riverbed along which energy flows. If invisible vibrations aren't your cup of tea, credit the room's success to aesthetic discipline. Roberts' furniture pieces, most from a collection called Monroe after the famously voluptuous star, fit together like yin with yang, saving floor space and bestowing a sense of well ordered calm that engenders airiness." 

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"GBRoberts, Functional Art, will be exhibiting his designs at imm-cologne 2009, "The future of home design". The show will be held Jan. 19-25 in Cologne, Germany. His designs will be exhibited at Hall 6.1, stand C-022. Please stop by and see this leading collection of designs." imm-cologne is one of the leading furniture fairs in Europe.