Our specialty is custom crafted items based on our clients’ own designs, and we also modify or scale to order any of the pieces in our portfolio.
Manufacturer of designer acrylic furnishings custom-made in NYC for over 50 years. Sold to the trade. Family owned.Every day, Plexi-Craft collaborates with designers and design savvy consumers to push traditional boundaries of the material and develop pieces from every design era and for every type of décor. As pioneers in Thick Acrylic™ construction, Plexi-Craft has enabled designers to take their idea from sketch stage to finished product, bringing their visions to life, within budget and deadline, every time. Plexi-Craft’s custom acrylic designs have been sought after by an aesthetically diverse range of award-winning designers including HGTV’s David Bromstad, Coffinier Ku, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz, Amanda Nisbet, Robyn Karp and are regularly featured on the sets of numerous TV shows including several HGTV design shows. These designers and a roster of private clients have come to know the company as a place for creative expression and flawless results.
More than 60 years, this small company in New York has designed and manufactured furniture for customers willing to pay for exclusivity. When the coronavirus pandemic came and the activity was paralyzed, the factory had to close its doors without imagining that it would have a new and prosperous reopening. It has not been the only one. And the phone was not ringing without a stop so that we could help hotels, restaurants, offices, cinemas and many other industries that, as you can imagine, require some kind of protection. The COVID-19 caused the opportunity to design a new line of products, not exclusively luxury, but essential to avoid contagion. They say they have orders from all over the country. This is the reason why we become the first essential business. We are helping the community to take care of this and to keep the distance. New customers have come to the company who want to take advantage of the acrylic advantage to install discreet protection barriers, versatile and secure barriers. Their production boss says that these items now represent between 80 and 90% of the business. We have not really done many furniture. The new orders that come are more suitable for the divisions. And things So yes, the demand for material, more thin, is It has been practically a new air for this family micro-business that its owner acquired after the 2008 economic recession when he had to give up a long career in the financial sector. My husband and I had no idea that we would buy it before a pandemic. When this material was extraordinarily perfect for something that was not for what we bought, furniture. So now it has been applied to something that is very useful, which surprised me. It is something good and we are busy with that. This company is located in the Bronx and most of its workers are Latin immigrants. His boss says that once it was reopened, almost all of them reintegrated. And now he hopes that it will continue to grow to possibly have more employees. It does not seem that the company has plans to close. Hans Krechmann recognizes that the experience and dedication of his workers has been vital to a business that has come without having greater knowledge. They, on the other hand, are allowed to be employed in a company that, un More work for us. Client sometimes asks for designs that are customized, that have to be invented here. How to do it. But it can be done. And thanks today's work. We have a future and the most important thing is to be good and help others. Gilbert Vega, CNN, New York.
