Said Furniture Trade, had to put music from, and bring music from, you have to talk about the Louvre. Louvre International Furniture Exhibition Center, construction area of more than 20 million square meters, is the world's largest single building furniture exhibition. Not long ago, the Louvre by the presence of Italy's top furniture brands GIORGETTI organized the occasion of "import Museum Collection furniture VIP Tasting Session", only for the venues at the top of the pyramid into the public eye.
High-end furniture market High-end furniture market is being Financial Crisis? Easily hundreds of thousands, millions of furniture in the end market, how much? Newspaper of the Louvre Home Group Vice President, General Manager of the Louvre Europe and the United States home for an exclusive interview with Lucy Liu.
Be settled in the century-old Museum of imports
Reporter: Following the Lamborghini, VALENTTI and many other top brands, the Louvre has recently attracted to Italy's top furniture brands GIORGETTI stationed. Louvre Museum Group to create the original purpose of what is imported?
Liu Lu: Imports Hall is August 8, 2008 was opened, but before that had been prepared more than two years. Jiugen group's name, our mind is the home to create art of the highest temple, but if not world-famous brands in this, not what is feasible.
Reporter: This "top hall" means ... ...
Liu Lu: Home Arts Center, which is not the same place with others. Domestic import furniture dealers are generally imported furniture, and we not only introduce furniture, we even Decoration , Decoration, chandeliers, carpets, wallpaper, painting, jewelry is introduced across the board.
Reporter: How to choose top-brand imported Museum?
Liu Lu: first, the brand must have a hundred years of history. Secondly, the positioning of our customers that you are rich, we import Museum in Lamborghini (LAMBORGHINI) furniture is Madonna, Tom Cruise's favorite products, but also the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Queen products. Third, the use of products in what the top sites. Museum of the products we import are generally in Europe, villas, five-star Hotels , High-end apartments, the use of the yacht. For example GIORGETTI furniture, that is, special furniture, European luxury yacht, the most expensive apartment in China, Beijing Pangu Plaza, Bill? Gates 08 Olympic apartment, is that it used to.
High-end furniture market is not affected by financial crisis
News: the financial crisis on the impact of high-end furniture market, how much?
Liu Lu: high-end consumer actually affected very little. Furniture, compared with the real estate industry, accounting for the (spending) a very small proportion. A house two or three million, has just been wiped out, but two to three million can buy high-end imported furniture, made high-end furniture to buy up hundreds of thousands. China's rich published much more than Fox.
Reporter: the Louvre's three high-end venues (Museum of imports, Europe and the United States Hall, Life Hall) this year Sell How?
Liu Lu: Our performance this year compared to last year increased 50%. Financial crisis is mainly affecting foreign markets, the modest impact on the domestic.
Reporter: China's top furniture market to open up a number?
Liu Lu: in this pyramid to the top of the furniture consumption, I think not to open up the market thousandth. Objectively speaking, the furniture with Car , A luxury compared to much less furniture consumption. LV, 15% of the market each year is created in China, Rolls-Royce last year sold more than 1,200 units worldwide, including more than 100 vehicles are sold in China. However, many Chinese tycoons have limited knowledge of the furniture, luxury furniture and quality of their knowledge of furniture to be improved.
Reporter: does the problem lie?Liu Lucy: The aims of the awareness of their furniture. I met a lot of rich people, a German air system a few million, an imported Cupboard Millions, a sauna system, more than 100 million, they are willing to spend. Many people only look at the brand, but not the taste.
They do not understand why the furniture of a few million to hundreds of thousands, they do not think leather sofa is wrapped with leather, and a number of leather can be used? But they do not know, these cattle must be professional in the Alps following pasture to feeding, and feed should have a special request to separate between cattle and cattle raising, to prevent them from fighting scratch skin.
As we import Museum BAXTER sofa, sofa, it is only a small selection of public leather Alps, and only use beef neck skin, a sofa may be 12 or more can be produced small bull. Value comes from scarcity, quality and processes from the details.
