New at Contract Specialties

Contract Specialties, Inc. now represents Unisource Furniture and Parts in Florida and the Caribbean. Unisource began business 1992 and has evolved into a leading manufacturer of complete office furniture systems.  The furniture sytems production complements their robust volume of furniture systems parts. They now manufacture a number of distinct systems; Mirage, Mirage VS, Mirage Plus and xXtreme.

Office Furinture Systems

Mirage is a value oriented system which combines performance with function. It delivers maximum value and quality at an affordable price point. Mirage offers a vast selection of panel sizes, work surfaces, finish options and perhaps the largest selection of grade 1 fabrics and standard laminates on the market. Whether your need is to add-on to an existing installation or complete a new project, Mirage is an ideal solution.  Click here to learn more about Mirage  

Mirage Plus takes the classic and proven design of Mirage and transforms it into a flexible and elegant product solution. Its segmented frame and tile design enables the user unlimited options. The seamless transition between Mirage and MiragePlus enables you to blend products to meet both design and budget requirements. Both changing and adding stack-on tiles is done effortlessly minimizing your long-term cost of ownership.   Click here to learn more about Mirage Plus  

xXtremeis a system that knows no boundaries. It combines elegance with unparalleled functionality. xXtreme's revolutionary design is as surprisingly simple as it is sophisticated. Panels, worksurfaces, overheads and even tiles are completely off-module, making xXtreme the product of choice for the customer that desires the ultimate in flexibility and performance. You can even create floor to ceiling private offices through the utilization of xXtreme's unique stacking ability.   Click here to learn more about xXtreme 

Mirage VS is the best of all worlds. A high quality product that is simple, affordable and available. Its proven design combined with Unisource's most popular finishes and abbreviated fabric/finish palate deliver an excellent product at a very competitive price. This makes MirageVS a logical choice for today's budget minded systems buyer.                                       Click here to learn more about Mirage VS

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OEM Compatible Replacement Parts 

Unisource supplies compatible parts for many OEM system furniture manufacturers. These parts are designed to replace the original parts required for either reconfiguration or remanufacturing of systems products. Generic parts such as table legs and pencil drawers are also a core part of our product offering and have become the standard by which others are measured.       Click here to learn more about parts

Narrative Sofa Bed from Patrician

Rest is always close at hand with the Narrative sofa bed. This sofa bed is luxurious in comfort and beauty. With numerous arm options the Narrative sofa bed can be relaxing destination for family in any lounge or waiting room setting. The reduced footprint also allows for easy movement within any room. A specially engineered, five-degree pitch in the seat deck not only creates comfort, but a more ergonomical way to sit. When the bed is needed, gently pull with ease and the sofa becomes an inviting sleeping surface.

The Bing-Facebook Alliance:

It's not too audacious to say that the new Bing search features that Microsoft and Facebook unveiledt this month are going to upend the search business. Until now, search algorithms have used machine learning and artificial intelligence to predict which of the billions of pages out on the Internet might be most salient to your search. Now, at least on Bing, they're going to have access to something even more precious: the knowledge of who your friends are and what they like.

Among the features Bing is rolling out to users in the coming days is a module called "Liked Results" to its search results. Looking for information on that new Tom Cruise movie? On Google, your search engine would serve up the relevant pages it has calculated are the most popular. On Bing, as of now, it serves up the regular Google-style results and a module that shows you pages your friends have liked -- including, for example, movie reviews. You no longer have to do the work of trolling through search results to figure out which of the pages might tell you whether the movie's a hit or a bomb. Trust your friend Sara's taste? Click on the page she Liked.

So what does this all mean? Here are a few takeaways:

1. Search just reached an inflection point. Google's great innovation was to figure out how to deliver the most relevant search results, based on the assumption that a webpage that had a large number of other pages linking to it would be more interesting than one with fewer links. Google has built its search algorithms by continuing to troll large sets of data for other attributes that indicate relevance. Now, however, Bing can deliver results based on what your trusted sources of information-your friends and acquaintances-think. This is a giant leap forward. Among other things, it means that...

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