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LA JOLLA LIGHT - JANUARY 27, 2011 - PAGE A17
SPOTLIGHT on LOCAL BUSINESS Roche-Bobois:A touch of style Roche-Bobois, a 50-year-old French company in La Jolla’s downtown Village, offers furnishings beyond compare. “We have more than 230 stores worldwide and we have gained our success in this industry by creating a beautiful collection of sofas,” said general manager Philippe Maret of his company’s two side-by-side, high-end stores at 7611 Girard Ave. While its sofas are a key product, Roche Bobois also features the work of designers who create chairs, tables, modular furniture, desks and bedroom furnishings. One store, Les Contemporains, is more contemporary. The other, Les Provinciales, featuring French countryside style, is more traditional, noted Maret. “Everything in the stores is handmade, most of it coming from Italy, made with the best materials and craftsmanship,” Maret said. Furniture orders placed locally are sent to Europe to be made before being shipped back approximately four months later for delivery. The store, which sells to interior designers as well as the general public, has partnered with famous designers Enzo Mari and JeanPaul Gaultier to market its products. “That resonates among people who know fashion, design,” he said. “It’s a good name
The Mah Jong modular sofa by Jean Paul Gaultier, design by Hans Hopfer. COURTESY
dropping.” Maret said the store draws people who “want to differentiate themselves” with something unique in design and exceptional in quality. The store also is noted for its customer service. The La Jolla fine furnishings showroom is open to the public. Roche Bobois incorporated in 2010, which allows it to receive more furniture styles and offer better prices, said Maret. They also offer a 10-year warranty. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily except for Sunday. For information call RocheBobois at (858) 459-0297 or visit www.roche-bobois.com.
La Jolla Yoga Center host author David Whyte, a best-selling author and poet, who is also a Fortune 500 Consultant and naturalist, will bring his inspirational messages to the La Jolla Yoga Center on Jan. 28 and 29. The center, which is known for the quality of its programs and is equipped with state-of-the art acoustics to match its exceptional aesthetic, will present “An Evening with David Whyte from 7 to 9 p.m on Jan. 28. The next day his subject will be “Simple and Pure: The Art of Creating a Beautiful Mind,” in a program that runs from noon to 6 p.m. with a one-hour break. Whyte comes with his penetrating insight and gentle guidance, offering a practical alternative in response to the increasingly tense, harried, forceful and exhausting way that so many are trying to survive or cre-
La Jolla Yoga Center owner Jeanie Carlstead and David Whyte. COURTESY ate a satisfying life for themselves. His talk will outline a meaningful and fully alive way of being in the world in a way that engages a rested, alert intelligence with the courage to simplify, to act, and above all, to have a life worth living at the center of our endeavors. As part of their commitment for being a center of inspiration and a supportive partner through the difficul-
ties and joys of the human journey, La Jolla Yoga Center is hosting Whyte’s presentations. Owner Jeanie Carlstead is not alone in being deeply affected by his work. Whyte has created a readership and listenership in four normally mutually exclusive areas: the psychological and theological worlds of philosophical enquiry, the personal and interpersonal world of relationships, the literary world that most poets inhabit, and the world of vocation, work, and organizational leadership. “It is this combination along with his scientific and close encounters with nature that makes his work so powerfully relevant in all areas of life,” said Jeanie Carlstead. For more information, visit lajollayogacenter.com or davidwhyte.com, or call La Jolla Yoga Center at (858) 456-2412.
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