WHO WE ARE
Smink Incorporated has been a Texas institution for over twenty-three years - bringing luxury furnishings and fine art to Dallas and the Southwest. We are a family owned and operated business, with HUB Certification, that has an impeccable reputation for service and the highest quality products. The designers and architects that work with us appreciate the ease that we afford them, from purchase to installation. We are a wholesale showroom that is open to the public, and we specialize in providing packages of furnishings to projects all over the western United States.
VIDEOS
Diane McGregor
the Meditative Surface. October 16 - November 13, 2010.
MANUFACTURERS
MINOTTI
The prestigious Italian design brand developed by the Minotti brothers in cooperation with Milanese architect Rodolfo Dordoni, known for annually producing a new collection that is a blend between tradition and technology. Minotti is also known for having the best upholstery fabrics in the industry.
PORRO
The Porro family has, since 1925, manufactured products that combined the traditional skills of cabinetry with the latest technologies and materials. This highly engineered line is known for its seamless designs that never-ever show a connector, a support, or any exposed hardware.
LIVING DIVANI
A family owned company that works with Piero Lissoni, their architect of record, to produce, annually, a fresh collection of understated and minimalist designs. They are the market leader for high quality soft seating in Italy's Brianza region and often pair their products with Porro.
MOLTENI & C
A large collection of single products by international architects such as Aldo Rossi, Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, Patricia Urquiola, and Rodolfo Dordoni, that combines to form elegant interior palettes.
KETTAL
Founded in 1964, Kettal encompasses four brands of outdoor furniture - Kettal, TriConfort, Hugonet, Evolutif. New designs are presented annually from designers such as Patricia Urquiola, Marcel Wanders, Roldolfo Dordoni, and Hella Jongerius.
SIMON
Alberto Stella, President of Estel, considers Simon his 'treasure chest of tables', and in particular the Doge by Carlos Scarpa. The line is a (secret) group of the finest collectibles in modern classic furniture.
FRIGHETTO
Acquired by Estel in 2005, this company is known for their soft seating and their well priced leather upholstery. They offer designs for both commercial and residential use, and are particularly known for the comfort of the Tobias series.
ARFLEX
Arflex was born over 65 years ago when a group of Pirelli engineers designed the rubber strapping now used in sofa seating. The great Arflex designers of the Fifties were Marco Zanuso, Cini Boeri, Franco Albini, and B.B.P.R., and today these are among the masters of Italian product design. The company has been revived, many of the old models have been put back into production and today Arflex is known for the collectability of its classic designs.
MDF ITALIA
A crisp collection of single products that features the well known white bookcase series Random, Melody and Vita; as well as the Flow Table and Chairs. Designs are by Jean Marie Massaud, Bruno Fattorini, Robin Rizzini, Neeuland Industriedesign, and more.
CASA MILANO
Founded in 1998 by the Turati family, this line is constructed primarily of wood and plays with the textures of wood, fabrics and leather. The styles are current and mix well in any traditional or contemporary interior.
FRIGERIO
Frigerio is a family owned business that specializes in upholstery production. The collection integrates form with function, modern design with classical elements, and presents a well priced series of sofa systems that used for commercial and residential projects.
MUURAME
A collection of cabinetry and case goods that is very simple and classic, for the modern home. The line is well known for its credenzas, small desks, and media units; all well priced. The line comes from Finland.
BPA INTERNATIONAL
Founded in 1993, BPA is well known for mid-priced modular sofa systems and many single chairs, particularly the Jill Chair with ottoman.
LEUCOS
Today Leucos encompasses the original Leucos brand, Itre, Luxit, and FDV Collection. With this extensive portfolio of products we are able to provide a congruent family of fixtures to any project, either commercial or high-end residential; enabling the designer to use ceiling, wall-mounted fixtures, table and floor lamps that match.
DESSIE
An exquisite hand-built collection of architectural case goods and tables by Jaime Tresserra Clapes, a very well known furniture designer from Barcelona. This particular collection is based on a structure of built-up steel members with in gunmetal bluing finish. There are different woods to select from, which dramatically customize each piece.
ZOE LUYENDIJK
Studio Luyendijk has been creating deeply detailed carpets, hand-made in the Kathmandu Valley of Tibet, since 1995. The collection was launched in 2002 and has taken the industry by storm with Zoe's artful designs, each made to order from full sized templates. Nowhere else can you such quality and craftsmanship.
BOCCI
Bocci is a contemporary design and manufacturing house located in Vancouver. The collection includes several separate lighting designs and some furniture. All the designs are numbered - '14' being the first and most well-known fixture. 14 is a cast-glass globe that may be installed as individual lamps or clustered on one mounting plate as a chandelier.
ZEUS
An Italian company that was founded in 1984, to artfully produce metal tables, chairs and stools from industrial-type materials, such as linoleum, Pirelli rubber matting and rubber couplings, etc. These are austere, simple pieces that are very affordable.
ARTISTS
GARY FAYE
An American photographer, who trained in the late seventies under Ansel Adams, and whose work is in many selected collections throughout Texas. Gary is well known for his work in black and white as well as color. In 2010 he produced a new series of pieces of the Big Bend region, and is currently working on a set of desert images taken in the Coachella Valley and surrounding mountains.
HYUNMEE LEE
A minimalist painter, with her MFA from The University of Sydney, Hyunmee Lee came to Utah in the 1990's. She has continued to work within her own vision, to exemplify the modern world with minimal gestures of abstraction. Her work brings an ethereal, graceful silence to any space.
DARA MARK
A New Mexico modernist whose work in watercolor on Yupo paper, a type of hand-made mylar, is astoundingly purposeful and timely. In her current work, she captures a stop action moment of light and water moving in a circularly patterned 'grid'. In some pieces the motion is fast and clear, in some the light and color are more delicate than others; and some works are ruddy and full of summer heat.
DIANE McGREGOR
McGregor's primary focus is upon the virtual surface of the canvas and she expresses the layering of paint as a meditation on life choices and seeking a more idealistic existence. Her most recent work demonstrates a broader use of whites and looser or more abstracted forms that are woven into the surface.
RINA MENARDI
Since 1980, Rina Menardi has been developing her research into the field of ceramics, personalizing work techniques, exploring color schemes, striving for neatness of shape. Through this work, she has been creating her first collection of living accessories, all hand-made stoneware pieces, always characterized by simple lines, inspired by nature, removed from the style of so many mass-produced items, and never limited to a single purpose, believing, as she does, that an object should not impose itself, but rather suggest visual and tactile sensations able to evoke our deepest emotions.
THEL
A Texas architect, Thel took her pen name in 1990 and began painting small watercolor pieces that we sold in our first store on Mockingbird Lane. Today she works in oil on canvas, oil on Bristol board, and last year produced a five piece series of plaster tree sculptures on metal bases.
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