New web-based company beckons customers to Experience the Rhythm of Tradition"

Agave Music Box & Gift Company launches web-based retail store containing high quality, exquisite gifts and luxury home decor items. Prestigious name brands like Reuge® Music Boxes from Switzerland, Bakul Designer Baskets, and Heritage Irish Crystal are included in this wonderful collection.

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) May 6, 2004 -- Inspired by the mystique of a pink plastic music box given to her by her father many years ago, Catherine Martinez of Phoenix, Arizona has launched Agavé Music Box & Gift Company, an unusual and striking web-based retail store. To honor the influence her father had in her life, Martinez has created an opportunity for others to lovingly influence someone special in their lives. Martinez hand-selected the collection to provide visitors an exquisite anthology of gifts and luxury home décor items that embraces tradition and old-world craftsmanship. Its about provoking people to ponder the legacy they have and to provide an opportunity to experience the rhythm of tradition." Martinez passionately remarks, Agavé was created to reclaim and inspire family tradition and to contribute to immortalizing fine art born from skilled, hand-craftsmanship."

A sentimentalist at heart, Martinez has long been researching the music box industry and other hand-crafted fine gifts. Her search criteria focuses on finding fine items that have heirloom quality, usability, uniqueness and cultural and traditional charisma. Recently, she was able to form a very special arrangement between Agavé Music Box & Gift Company and Reuge® Music. Agavé Music Box & Gift Company has been authorized as one of the few web-based only companies to carry Reuge® Music boxes from Switzerland. Reuge® is truly the pinnacle of music boxes offering unparalleled sound and beauty. We were very pleased that Reuge® was willing to work with a small, start-up company allowing us to offer our customers the very finest music boxes available today," commented Martinez.

With the prominent Latin influence in her life, Martinez longed to bring the beauty and romance of Latin music to a line of custom music boxes. Martinez commissioned local scratch-board artist, Scott Seibel of Tempe, to create unique art for an exclusive line of limited edition, heirloom quality music boxes. Flores del Barril" is the first custom music box in the first series, entitled Flores del Desierto" or Flowers of the Desert". Martinez and Seibel have created five (5) unique designs for this series and three (3) enchanting designs for the Pink Ribbon Collection. All of the designs capture the beauty of the southwestern desert in hand-inlaid wood applied using the art of fine marquetry. The remaining designs will be unveiled shortly after the Virtual Grand Opening. Customers can personalize their limited edition music box by selecting one of the five amorous Latin tunes - Béseme Mucho, Cielto Lindo, Cuando Caliente el Sol, La Paloma or Solamenta Una Vez. It is a breathtaking and indescribable experience when you see Scotts designs inlayed against the beautiful Sorrento wood boxes," added Martinez, His incredible love and vast knowledge of the desert, coupled with his stellar talent makes it a fantastic experience to be working with him. Were thrilled to partner with such a gifted artist."

The company also provides an extensive offering of other gifts and home décor, including Salisbury Pewter, Bakul Designer Baskets, Mexican Pewter, Heritage Irish Crystal, Stephen Pearce Pottery and Stuller Fine Jewelry. Forged from talents passed from generation to generation, the Agavé gallery reflects the legacy of hand-made fine art at one of the highest levels of quality obtainable in todays market. Agavé Music Box & Gift Company has adopted breast cancer research as their philanthropic recipient. A portion of the sales of any of their Pink Ribbon Collection items will be donated to breast cancer research.

Martinez is not new to business ownership, having previously owned her own recruiting firm, Martinez Consulting Inc. She has spent her career in human resources with various high tech companies, but longed to get back to her entrepreneurial dreams. Enthusiastically, Martinez closed by saying, The brilliant sparkle of a diamond comes from the amount of facets cut into the diamond during its life time. Its time to cut another facet into my life!"

For more information about Agavé Music Box & Gift Company, please visit the website at www.agavegifts.com or contact Catherine Martinez at 480-706-4537.

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