Posted on Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Tom asked for no hoopla or celebration for his 75th birthday today, but we couldn't let this milestone day just sneak by quietly. Anyone who knows Tom knows he doesn't do things quietly.
So, in honor of Tom's birthday, we have pulled together some photos from the archives to celebrate this special day.
Also worth noting...we thought it would be fun to pull together a list of fun facts that took place in 1935 and here are a few...
Avg. new home cost: $3,450
Avg. salary: $1,600
Avg. new car price: $625
Cost of 1 gallon of gas: 10 cents
Amelia Earhart flies solo across the Pacific
Elvis Presley was born in 1935
The first canned beer goes on sale...and ironically...
Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in New York City
Enjoy a look back at Tom (Mary and family) over the years...
HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY TO TOM MOSER!
Posted on Fri, Feb 05, 2010
We were thrilled to see that we made the list of the ten best midlife-crisis trips by TravelandLeisure.com! Our Customer in Residence Program was featured as #6 on the list in the article, Forget the Ferrari: travel can transform your life. Here are 10 trips to make it happen.
Also worth noting:
Pam Hurley Moser (David Moser's wife), owner of Hurley Travel Experts, was quoted in the article on the new wave of travel, including #9 on the list Flying into Outer Space with Virgin Galactic, of which she is an authorized travel agent for.
Very exciting to see Auburn, Maine rank among the likings of surfing in Fiji, climbing Kilimanjaro and traveling to Outer Space!
Posted on Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Please join us in Boston on Thursday, February 11th for The Elegance of the Figure Abstracted - featuring paintings by Stephen Silver and sculptures by Greg Spitzer, accompanied by beautiful violin music from the North Bennet School in Boston and a sampling of gourmet chocolates from Hotel Chocolat on Newbury Street.
This special pre-Valentine's reception with the artists will be held in our Boston showroom with a portion of proceeds from art sales benefitting Project Place, a supportive community that promotes hope and opportunity for homeless and low-income individuals.
WHEN:
Thursday, February 11, 2010
6pm to 8pm
Refreshments will be served.
RSVP and more info:
Boston showroom
19 Arlington Street (between Boylston & Newbury)
Boston, MA 02116
t: 617.224.1245
e: bostonshowroom@thosmoser.com
Posted on Thu, Jan 21, 2010
For a limited time, we are pleased to offer you FREE DELIVERY on your next order of Thos. Moser furniture*.
Our first catalog of 2010 arrives this month and is a tribute to the men and women who practice the craft of fine woodworking at our Maine workshop. It is also filled with the gracious words of our customers who enable our craft by allowing the furniture we make to become a part of their lives.
We truly have a lot to be thankful for, so to celebrate we are pleased to offer free delivery on orders placed by the end of January.
Don't currently receive our catalog? Click on the cover at left to download as a .pdf (6.8 MB) or CLICK HERE to request your own copy.
This special offer will save you as much as 12% on your purchase. Whether you are a first-time buyer or a returning customer, we hope this will help to begin, or continue, a relationship with you that will carry on for many years to come.
There are three ways to take advantage of this offer, but you must order by January 31st...
1. Shop our secure website and enter promotional code 2010CAT during checkout when you place your order online
2. Visit or call any of our showrooms
3. Call our Customer Care Center in Maine at 800-708-9045 or 207-865-9148
*This is a limited time offer. The following restrictions apply:
Free Delivery offer is valid only on your next purchase from Thos. Moser, cannot be applied to past purchases, and cannot be combined with any other special offer, discount or program. We can extend this offer only to deliveries made within the 48 contiguous United States. Offer is valid only for orders placed by January 31, 2010.
Posted on Thu, Jan 21, 2010
We invite you to an intimate reception featuring David Moser, his wife and Accredited Space Agent Pamela Hurley-Moser of Hurley Travel Experts and Stephen Attenborough, Commercial Director of Virgin Galactic, the first commercial spaceline.
Receptions will be held at our Washington, DC showroom on Thursday, January 21st and our New York Showroom on Friday, January 22nd.
Pam and Stephen just returned from the unveiling of SpaceShipTwo (shown above) in Mojave, California where history was made. They were among a heady crowd that included the visionary aerospace engineer and system designer Burt Rutan, Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson, the entire Scaled Composites team, about 170 future astronauts with confirmed reservations ... and of course the Accredited Space Agents who are escorting these pioneering clients into a new era in tourism.
Come learn how you can be part of this legacy and join the privileged few that have seen the Earth from space...
DATES
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at our Washington, DC Showroom
Friday, January 22, 2010 at our New York Showroom
TIME
(both locations) 5:00pm to 8:00pm (presentation at 6:30pm)
RSVP
Washington, DC (Thu 1/21): 202-338-4292 or DCShowroom@ThosMoser.com
New York (Fri 1/22): 212-753-7005 or NewYorkShowroom@ThosMoser.com
To learn more, CLICK HERE to visit Pam Hurley-Moser's website devoted to space travel.
Posted on Tue, Dec 29, 2009
Our showrooms are busy planning events for 2010 and have partnered with some amazing people, from artists, authors, non-profits, wineries, designers, to chocolate makers and more.
To jump start the New Year, here are a few events taking place in the showrooms this January:
The busy staff at our Boston showroom will be hosting a special reception with artists Steven Silver and Greg Spitzer on Thursday, January 7th (5pm-8pm). A portion of proceeds from the sales of art that evening will benefit The Friends of the Public Garden.
The American Library Association will be holding its 2010 Midwinter Meeting in Boston the weekend of January 15th-18th. Our showroom will be hosting a small mixer on Sunday, January 17th for attendees in town for the show.
Contact the Boston showroom for additional info on these and other upcoming events.
Our DC showroom is hosting a reception with painter Stephen Day on Friday, January 8th (6pm-8pm). Stephen is a self taught painter whose works range from waterscapes, abstracts, to bird portraits and finds his subject matter from his extensive domestic and international travel.
Shown above: Chesapeake Mirage IV by Stephen Day
Contact the DC showroom for more info.
Freeport
Our Freeport showroom invites you to a reception with renowned artists Eric Hopkins and Jill Hoy on Thursday, January 28th (6pm-8:30pm), and an ongoing group exhibition including new work by Tom Curry, Michele Dangelo and Gifford Ewing. Also introducing the work of Portland artist, Debra Yu. This show will be on display through March 31, 2010.
Contact our Freeport showroom for more info and to RSVP for the event.
Los Angeles
Our LA showroom, along with Faraci Art + Design, invites you to Fluidity: a reception in our Los Angeles showroom on Saturday, January 30th (from 5-8pm), featuring works from artists Bryan Ida, Lindsey Nobel and Christopher Stokes. These three artists utilize a free-form paint medium to create flowing imagery and organic texture.
Visit the showroom page on our website for more info on upcoming events!
Posted on Thu, Dec 24, 2009
Our Los Angeles Showroom recently played host to the SDSA (Set Decorators Society of America) annual holiday party. We were excited to be able to introduce our work to those responsible for creating the environments we see on TV and in the movies.
Thank you to the SDSA for selecting our showroom for their holiday gathering, and to the wonderful partners that work with them on TV and movie sets and helped make this event special, including Eclipse-Worldwide, Aah Inspiring Balloons, Dr. Christmas Rents, Tic Tock Couture Florals, Classic Party Rentals, Skinny Dog Design Group, and Lamp Expo. The event also supported the Spark of Love toy drive.
Many of the set decorators who attended were unfamiliar with Thos. Moser, but a few had worked with us in the past.
One particular woman told a story of a Thos. Moser Pencil Post Bed she wanted to purchase for a movie set that she was decorating years ago. Given the temporary nature of movie set, the producer thought the bed was just too expensive to purchase, so she agreed to buy the bed from the producer after the shoot (at a substantial discount) if he would purchase the bed for the film. He agreed, and she has enjoyed the bed every night since then.
The night of the party she was so very excited to see the same Pencil Post Bed on our showroom floor! After talking to her about how the bed was made and showing her that each woodworker signs each piece, she was going to go home and tear her bed apart looking for the woodworker's signature.
You may be interested to know that Thos. Moser is no stranger to film and TV. In 2004, our furniture was featured extensively in "The Notebook", the movie adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks book starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. More recently, the award-winning (yet short-lived) TV drama "Commander In Chief" used our furniture in the show's version of the White House (CLICK HERE to watch the TV news story that ran about it here in Maine).
Other film credits for Moser furniture include "Bicentennial Man" with Robin Williams, "Braveheart" with Mel Gibson, "Waiting to Exhale" with Whitney Houston, "Taking Lives" with Angelina Jolie, "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and "Not So Big House" with Sarah Susanka.
In addition to "Commander in Chief", Moser furniture has been seen on TV in such shows as "This Old House", "The Price Is Right" (way back in 1984, Episode 914), "Simply Ming" with Ming Tsai, "Nash Bridges", and "Maine in Maine".
Thanks again to the SDSA, we look forward to working with your members for many years to come!
Posted on Thu, Dec 17, 2009
One of the exciting “side effects” of our Customer in Residence (CIR) program has been the special bond that is created between the program alumni and the people of our company.
For example, this week we received an email from Janette, a CIR alumni from this past Spring. Janette attended the program with her dad Joseph, who is an accomplished woodcarver in his own right. Together with master craftsman Jim Boisvert, Janette and Joseph built an Aria Writing Desk during their CIR week here in the shop. When Jim heard that Joseph creates wood carvings, he gave Joseph a block of cherry to take home. Joseph took that block and carved it into a beautiful dolphin statue as a gift for Jim...
(the carving sent to cabinetmaker Jim Boisvert)
Now Janette has sent a photo of another remarkable carving by her dad, which he did shortly after completing the dolphin carving for Jim. We are amazed! This time Joseph has brought his talent to bear on a carving of the Aria Writing Desk that he had built with his daughter...
Without the quarter on top, it would be hard to tell that it wasn’t the real thing (shown at right). So now Janette has the full size desk; and Joseph he has this one.
The details in Joseph's work are really remarkable...to view at a larger size, click on this thumbnail:
Here’s a shot of Jim, Janette and Joseph in the shop just prior to finishing the actual full-size desk that they built together...
(the trio and their Aria desk)
You also might enjoy this video clip of Janette and Joseph talking about their CIR week at the final signing ceremony on the last day of their stay with us:
Thanks to Janette and Joseph for sharing these photos with us, and to all our CIR alumni for their continued support and friendship!
Posted on Tue, Dec 15, 2009
You’ll find something for everyone on your list this holiday season at our flagship showroom in Freeport, Maine!
We’ve partnered with the finest local artists and artisans to showcase gifts for every style (and budget). Stop in to browse hand-crafted items available to take with you for the holidays, from small prints, to wooden burls, glassworks, pottery and more. Our sales team will gladly wrap your gift purchase to help make this giving season even more stress-free.
Some of the featured artists include:
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Simon Pearce – glass, lighting and pottery
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David Lancaster – heirloom bowls
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TJ McDermott – wood carvings
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Ray Carbone – wooden burls
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Stephen Zeh – baskets
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Rufus and Susan Williams – small paintings
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Swan's Island – blankets and throws
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Brahms-Mount – blankets and throws
We are also making space for new Thos. Moser floor samples that are arriving in January, so our floor samples are now available at 10% off, and we also have holiday inventory on select items that can be taken home today as well.
We invite you to stop by the showroom, or call or email us to see what is available...
Thos. Moser Freeport Showroom 149 Main Street Freeport, ME 04032 p: 207-865-4519 e: FreeportShowroom@ThosMoser.com
Holiday Hours:
Monday - Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Open until 4pm on Christmas Eve - Closed Christmas Day
Our Freeport Showroom has become one of Maine's leading art venues, and has served as the model for our continuing "alternative gallery space" program, which highlights national and local artists in each of our showrooms from coast-to-coast.
Posted on Wed, Dec 09, 2009
Our showrooms have been busy this season hosting everything from artist events to holiday decorating workshops.
Here are some quick snapshots from a few recent events...
Our DC Showroom hosted a Holiday Craft Event, held this past weekend, which included spreads of fine chocolates, handmade wooden bowls, beautiful pottery, textiles and more.
Our Boston showroom partnered with acclaimed photographer Eric Roth to celebrate and showcase the best of Boston's architectural landscapes...
Our Chicago Showroom's holiday decorating workshop this past weekend was a great success, thanks to the designers from STUDY Color & Design. The showroom looks beautiful and is decked for the holidays...
The showrooms are constantly planning new events, so if you missed any of these events and want to know when the next one is, sign up to join our email list. You'll receive exclusive online-only offers, advance notice of new design introductions, and invitations to local events via email. Happy Holidays!