Karen Vasconi
| Karen
Vasconi is the owner of RIA Group, Ltd. She designs and manufactures
furniture and its components from its initial raw material.
Currently, they are manufacturing, marketing, selling and delivering
lumber product from Russia and Siberia to European buyers. They have sold
paper pulp. They are now working with several State funded railroads and
additionally, they sell lumber for construction.
They are very involved with reforestation. Russia, overall, has been replanting for nearly 100 years. You can drive down a country road and see fields of larch, oak, birch, maple, and fir that is 60, 70, 80 years old. All planted in symmetrical rows - which tells you that someone took out and someone replaced. This is part of State sponsored replanting. We do not remove a tree without planting another. Karen can be reached at riaunited@aol.com |
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is just a group of pictures from one of their facilities. |
The mantis frame was the budget priced frame. They designed each frame to have all the corresponding pieces -- i.e., sofa, loveseat, coffee table, end tables. The Mantis suite was kind of a take off of 50's style furniture. Made of lodge pole pine, natural finish and available in two sizes  |
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The Poe collection sold in 60 chains nationwide as well as a couple of stores in Moscow. Taken from traditional Arts and Crafts furniture, it is available in two colors and two sizes. |
