The exclusive custom-furniture maker, Pollaro Custom Furniture, which has crafted fine pieces for Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Carole Bayer-Sager, Clive Davis and other celebrities, was selected as an honored participant in the 76th Annual Academy Awards® Gift Baskets.

The Gift Baskets are given to the presenters, performers and other special guests at the Academy Awards® ceremony, which will be held on Sunday, February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. For a list of presenters and performers consult the official Academy Awards® website www.oscars.org/76academyawards/presenters_performers.html .

Pollaro Custom Furniture is presenting a $5,000 gift certificate that will be accompanied by a handsome 8-page brochure specially printed on the occasion of the 76th Academy Awards®. The certificate can be used toward the commission of a custom piece of furniture from the Pollaro workshop, which is based in New Jersey. Pollaro has built and shipped furniture to discriminating clientele around the world.

Academy Awards® gift baskets contain a selective array of merchandise, such as jewelry and fashion accessories, cameras and chocolates, and certificates for spa treatments and, this year, a custom piece of furniture.

Pollaro Custom Furniture produces hand-crafted museum-quality furniture, cabinetry and architectural woodwork. The workshop, founded by Frank Pollaro in 1988, has built a solid reputation for creating complex veneered and inlaid furniture among noted architects and interior designers, including Peter Marino, Charles Gwathmey, Harry Schnaper and Michael LaRocca, private residential clients and corporations worldwide. Pollaro created the elaborate marquetry reception desk for the headquarters of Jim Henson Productions in New York using 90 species of wood veneer to create three scenes featuring Muppets characters in action.

With more than 400 projects completed in the past 15 years, Pollaro has designed and built wood-paneled offices, bedroom sets and entire suites of furniture, in addition to tables, chairs, sideboards, desks, cabinets and other single pieces of furniture as commissioned by clients. Much of Pollaro’s work, which often is in the Art Deco style, incorporates exotic wood veneers; inlays of gold, silver, mother of pearl, precious stones and antique ivory; and such rare materials as shagreen, parchment and vellum.

In November 2001, HGTV’s Modern Masters featured Frank Pollaro for his designs and woodworking skills. Architectural Digest, House & Garden, Elle Décor and numerous other publications have written about Pollaro’s work. There is an article about him in the March 2004 issue of Architectural Digest that is currently on the newsstands.

For more information about and a portfolio of Pollaro Custom Furniture, go to www.pollaro.com.

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