Out of Asia, one of the largest Asian importers in the West Coast is committed to providing high quality antique furniture and introducing new unique contemporary design and design service. It has a wide range of product collections emphasizing cultural diversities, uniqueness, and excellence through re-interpretation of classic forms and styles influenced by early colonial days and ethnographic life of its region.
The contemporary designed pieces originate from the Philippines, Indonesia, India, China, Thailand, and Vietnam. The antique collections are from fine and provincial Chinese, Korean and Japanese furnishings to Spanish, Dutch, French and British colonial pieces. Many of the furniture items seen here like sofas and chairs are made from indigenous materials such as bamboo, rattan. raffia and hemp, while some are from teak, mahogany, molave, ebony, shell, to stainless steel, aluminum and copper.
Accessories and design accents such as plates, bowls, and jewelry boxes are from shells, bones, wild vines, river stones, and shagreen (sting ray) . Fabric collections are mainly from organic material like hemp, pineapple fiber, silk and leather.
The Jewelry designs are exquisite with unique stones and gems. Rated Best of LA by Los Angeles Magazine, the Home & Garden showroom display a vast collection showcase feast for the eyes.
Owner, Edna Luer while traveling overseas as Director of International Sales in the computer industry and later exported medical and industrial instrumentation, started collecting ethnographic arts and artifacts. There, in a moment of serendipity began her collection of beautiful pieces through her exquisite taste, & keen natural eye for beauty and unique interesting objects.
Perfection is the key in making the product a success, so craftsmen with extraordinary skills and lifetime experience who are natives of the region are hired. Edna personally designs most of the pieces. She ensures excellent finish and proper production by traveling through different regions of the country where the pieces are made. This enables her to give them accurate and precise directions in reinterpretation of classic forms and styles influenced from the east by early colonial days and ethnographic life of its region to modern use in the west.