Maku Premiere at Grounded in Encinitas

That's right, we've gone public with the collection. On Friday April 20th, over 150 VIP's joined us for the debut of our first collection at Grounded Garden Shop in Encinitas. Juli and Rich (the owners of Grounded) have been some of the most gracious, kind, and helpful people I have ever met. Without their support we would never be where we are right now! Everybody should go and buy something from Grounded, check out their site here and if you buy something from the site try and make it a Maku piece...

Like any new start up things have to go wrong every once in a while and this time mother nature was no help. The biggest winter storm to hit So.Cal this year barreled through all day Friday and pretty much drenched the place. But we must have some good karma stashed somewhere, by 4 pm the sun was shinning and it looked like a beautiful evening was in store. Of course it rained again but that didn't stop the fun as we moved under the tents or inside the store. The hero of the night award goes to the wait staff for enduring the rain and holding their ground despite being wet and cold, many thanks Suzanne!!

All in all it was a great night of design and lifestyle appreciation with the furniture taking center stage and silent auction featuring imagery from the Transworld Sightings Gallery to benefit the Surfrider foundation San Diego Chapter. Here are a few pics from the event and thanks to everybody that joined us as well as everybody that helped put the evening together. Chef Pascal from Savory cooked up some incredible eats and the crew from Stone Brewing made sure nobody got thirsty.

And last but not least it was good to see my friend and business partner Mike! I know he had a tought time leaving the islands to come back to crowded and cold San Diego but it was good hanging out!! I'm coming over to Maui next time though!

Here's a few pics from the evening

A little pre Premiere warm up for the crew!


Chilling inside Grounded(sorry, can't figure out how to rotate this image and it's been an 17 hr day..)


Rain rain go away, but it sure looks nice on the table...


Rich, Juli, MJ, and Jdub (had to choose this pic so the trio of baldness didn't blind Juli...)