small 2”x2” picture of a scanned piece of fabric. Marc spends a lot of time through the year attending furniture shows, meeting with futon cover manufacturers from all over the world, and evaluating thousands of fabrics for consideration on our site.
We offer the most unique collection of fabrics, most of which cannot be found anywhere else. Our denims, velvets and suedes, prints, leather look and faux leather covers are among many of our one-of-a-kind collections that are targeted at a more sophisticated, discriminating customer base. Today, futon covers are available in upscale fabrics, which Futon Covers Online offers at reasonable price points, often half the price of other online retailers.
Hurricane Katrina
Our offices are located in a historic community built on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, in Mandeville, Louisiana, about 30 miles north of New Orleans. While our business was very fortunately virtually unscathed by this catastrophic natural disaster, many of our family, staff members, and friends lives were greatly disrupted, even destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. If you would like to contribute to a charitable concern, but are concerned about the legitimacy and intentions of larger organizations, we’ve got a few suggestions and have provided the following links to these sites:
http://www.southarts.org/ Southern Arts Federation
http://www.pw.org/katrina/ Poets And Writers The Katrina Literary Collective has been created to collect and distribute books to victims of the hurricane. For more information, contact the Amber Communications Group at amberbk@aol.com.
http://charitynavigator.org/ Charity Navigator- great resource for evaluating charitable organizations.
https://secure.entango.com/donate/fMcm32Xpkmc New Orleans Visiting Artists Fund: Berklee College of Music has created the New Orleans Visiting Artist Fund to bring the finest Crescent City musicians, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, to Boston to share their music and life experience with Berklee and the greater Boston community. The fund will create a year-long music history lesson, while helping some musical masters, to whom we all owe a great deal. Berklee has begun the fund with the help of a generous silent partner, and it is already growing quickly through private contributions. This is your opportunity to directly support musicians from the cradle of American music.
http://tattoo.about.com/od/newsandviews/a/katrina.htm Body Artists Relief Fund
Marc’s Favorite Links
These are some links that may be of interest to some of our visitors. At the top of the list are some links to some of our existing online operations, and further below are some links that are of personal interest. Thanks to friends who keep tabs on my current projects! - Marc
www.healthyfoundations.com Visco Elastic Mattress Topper Pads and Pillows
http://www.habitatfutons.com/tempur.html Our Tempur-Pedic Products Page on our Habitat Furnishings site.
http://topothebed.com/ Marc’s newest project, under construction as of 9/28/05. Features a full line of bedding products, including comforter sets, sheets (up to 1000 thread count),
mattress protection products, pillows, and more.
http://maryfahl.com/ Mary Fahl, singer, songwriter
http://whobuti.home.mindspring.com/ Frank Messa, acrylic artist
http://www.risd.edu/ Rhode Island School Of Design, main website home page. If I had it to do all over again, I would love to have gone to school at RISD…assuming I would have been accepted. We are currently involved in a project with RISD to collaborate on a new
for our Futon Covers Online website, with a student designer, in the form of a prize based competition.
