March
31, 2010
New Marketing Director at My Crystal Bridge!
 David
Berlin has accepted our offer to
become our new Marketing Director.
He is responsible for our Facebook
updates, our blog updates, the articles about antiques on our blog, our
newsletter and all general marketing work for us.
If you'd like to link
to us, discuss affiliate marketing possibilities, or any related B to B
marketing issues, give Dave a call at (732) 637-7398. Or just drop him a line at davidberlin@mycrystalbridge.com.
David
Berlin has a long
history as a writer. He has
written magazine articles for Antiqueweek, The
Fine Tool Journal, Rodale's Backpacker, Rap Sheet, Weatherwise,
Pit and Quarry (a trade magazine for construction aggregate quarry
owners).
He also tutors English
as a Second Language and Accent Reduction—his own ESL webpage can be seen
here: http://sites.google.com/site/davidberlinesl/
and his personal blog here: and
his American Idiom of the Day twitter feed can be found here: http://twitter.com/davidberlinesl
.
Chinese Furniture Market is HOT!
Unlike the housing
market in America
and the rest of the world, the Chinese housing market has exploded
in recent years. The people of China are
wealthier and have a higher quality of life than ever before. Chinese furniture is some of the best
made in the world, and the Chinese are decorating their homes and suites
in a Modern Classical style. Check
out some photographs, so can see what I mean here:
  
In ancient China,
everything was done at knee level because Chinese did not sit on Western
style chairs—they sat or knelt on straw mats. Indeed, early paintings of the Chinese
masters like Kung Fu Tse, Lao Tse and others show them either standing or sitting
on mats.
Western style furniture
came with the Europeans—the Italians via the Silk Road-- and via the
Mongols and Turks and the Islamic Calpihates
who traded with China in the 1200s
(approximately).
Chinese began to apply
their uniquely Asian ideas to furniture crafting, and the furniture that
they built fit in nicely with ideas of Chinese interior
design—simplicity, attractive of good energy (chi), non-ostentatiousness.
Classical Modern
Chinese furniture was simple and clean, elegantly understated, and often
accented with the kinds of things we sell here at www.mycrystalbridge.com.
  
So a
table like this one: http://antiquechinafurniture.com/english/pro/zuowo/0174.jpg might have a cloisonne
vase on it, like one of these: http://www.mycrystalbridge.com/cloisonne.php
. A woman's vanity might have a
trinket or jewelry box on it like something on this page: http://www.mycrystalbridge.com/lacquer.php
.
 
Sometimes the Chinese
had something similar to a hutch like this http://antiquechinafurniture.com/english/pro/guixiang/0007.jpg
—on which they might display cloisonne or
cinnabar plates, like this http://www.mycrystalbridge.com/product/IA008G/IA008G.html
, this http://www.mycrystalbridge.com/product/IE011/IE011.php or this http://www.mycrystalbridge.com/product/IE010/IE010.php
 
Chinese diet, health and beryl crystals
Asians eat far less
meat than Westerners. Even dishes
that are considered “meat dishes” have far less beef or chicken in them
than do American meat dishes.
Chinese tend to “stretch” meat a great deal via the use of sauces
like plum sauces and hoisin sauce. You can find some of the best spices in
the world, including nuoc nam,
a kind of sauce made from fermented fish guts, mixed with lime and lime
juice and salt—native to Thailand—here
http://www.kalustyans.com/.
Chinese in particular
believe that physical, emotional, and mental health is determined by
proper flow of ones' chi or life force. Improper flow of chi can cause
all sorts of physical complaints, from muscle pains to menstrual cramps
and female emotional difficulties to digestive problems. In fact, when you go to visit a
chiropractor, that is what he is doing—manipulating your chi. Chiropractor—get
it? Likewise an
acupuncturist or accupressurist will try to
manipulate your chi and alter its flow via the use of needles or pressure
points.
Chinese also believed
that beryl crystals, such as the ones we sell here http://www.mycrystalbridge.com/crystal.php could create a calmness in people, a
peace of mind and a gentle state of thinking—an good state of mind that
came from an okayness with oneself. They believed that beryl could reawaken
the sex drives of a long married couple.
They kept it or displayed it in their homes.
 
Now we can't guarantee
that to be the case with our beryl crystals, and this product is NOT
approved by the FDA nor is it recommended to cure or treat ANY disease—if
you have emotional issues, a good therapist with whom you are sympatico can be very, very helpful, and if you have
physical medical issues, modern medical treatment including medications
(and eating healthy, nourishing food, getting plenty of healing rest and
good, deep sleep) is the way to go.
But these crystals are
lovely, and the patterns of light refracted in them are beautiful and wonderfully
intricate—and they shine so bright and so white that they'd brighten up
almost any home. They catch the
sun wonderfully and give a room a deep, golden
warmth.
 
Chinese believe that
health, both physical and mental, is an overall condition, rather than a
freedom from specific ailments or symptoms. This is different from the Western idea
of health, but it might definitely be a viewpoint worth checking out.
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Introducing
our new Marketing Director – David Berlin
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Chinese
furniture market is hot!
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Chinese
diet, health and beryl crystals
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My Crystal
Bridge Interior Decoration Arts is on facebook, blogger and twitter.
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Article
about Chinese
precious stone snuff bottles added to blog
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Article
about Chinese antique ivory Buddha
added to blog
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