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Modus Furniture International (MFI) is a designer

Designer

A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...

, manufacturer, importer and distributor of contemporary and transitional bedroom, dining room, and home entertainment furniture

Furniture

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...

History

Company president Oliver Wong founded parent company Far East American, Inc. (FEA), a plywood

Plywood

Plywood is a type of manufactured timber made from thin sheets of wood veneer. It is one of the most widely used wood products. It is flexible, inexpensive, workable, re-usable, and can usually be locally manufactured...

trading company, in 1984. In 1989, Mr. Wong returned to his home country of Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

to found PT Domusindo Perdana, a furniture

Furniture

factory

Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...

specialized in the production of wood

Wood

Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression...

bed

Bed

A bed is a large piece of furniture used as a place to sleep, relax, or engage in sexual relations.Most modern beds consist of a mattress on a bed frame, with the mattress resting either on a solid base, often wooden slats, or a sprung base...

s and cribs

Infant bed

An infant bed is a small bed specifically for infants and very young children, generally up to 3 years old....

. Far East American distributed Domusindo's products in the North American market until 1994, when Mr. Wong founded Modus Furniture International, Inc., a privately held California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

corporation.

Working in partnership with Domusindo, Modus Furniture expanded its product line to include casegoods

Casegoods

Casegoods are one of the two classifications of furniture: upholstery and casegoods. Upholstery refers to furniture that has fabric or leather and padding stretched over a frame. Casegoods generally refers to furniture made of hard materials, such as wood, metal, glass or plastic. Examples of...

in the 1990s. Although Mr. Wong has since divested his stake in Domusindo, the companies maintain a close relationship. In 2000, Modus began sourcing products from China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, Malaysia and Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, which enabled the company to expand its product offerings beyond Domusindo's manufacturing capabilities to include dining room

Dining room

A dining room is a room for consuming food. In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level...

furniture, home entertainment centers and upholstered beds.

Modus Furniture is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA with showrooms in High Point, NC, Las Vegas, NV and a distribution center in Fontana, CA.

Products

Modus Furniture specializes in contemporary, modern and transitional designs in bedroom

Bedroom

A bedroom is a private room where people usually sleep for the night or relax during the day.About one third of our lives are spent sleeping and most of the time we are asleep, we are sleeping in a bedroom. To be considered a bedroom the room needs to have bed. Bedrooms can range from really simple...

, dining room

Dining room

and home entertainment furniture. Modus manufactures and distributes products under its own brand name and under the angelo:HOME label designed by HGTV

HGTV

HGTV , is a cable-television network operating in the United States and Canada, broadcasting a variety of home and garden improvement, maintenance, renovation, craft and remodeling shows...

personality Angelo Surmelis

Angelo Surmelis

Angelo Surmelis is a German-born Greek-American professional designer who resides in Los Angeles. He has been a professional designer since 1995. His clients included entertainment companies , television shows , as well as private individuals. His company name is...

. Modus recently announced plans to manufacture corner furniture under the Cornerture brand by furniture designer and craftsmanScott Sallinger

Distribution

Modus Furniture is sold through various retail channels by independently owned retail stores. Modus Furniture products are widely available in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

and parts of Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, El Salvador

El Salvador

El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

, Panama

Panama

Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

, Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

, Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

, Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...

, China

China

and Indonesia

Indonesia

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