Didriks Awarded Prestigious Best of Boston Home Outdoor Furniture Store Honor

For the second year in a row, Boston Home magazine recognized Didriks as the Best of Boston Home Outdoor Furniture Store for 2011.

2011-01-11

BOSTON, MA, January 11, 2011 (Press-News.org) For the second year in a row, Boston Home magazine recognized Didriks, a Cambridge, MA-based retailer of outdoor furniture and housewares, as the Best of Boston Home Outdoor Furniture store for 2011.

Boston Home editors wrote: "For a city whose residents spend most of the year indoors, Boston is curiously blessed with an outstanding resource for outdoor living. Didriks stocks just a few lines of furniture, including U.K.-based Barlow Tyrie and California-based Modern Outdoor. Both are matchless in design and weather resilience. And to complete your outdoor-entertaining service, the store also purveys elegant Heath Ceramics dinnerware, handmade Italian pieces by Match Pewter, and Belgian table linens from Libeco."

The magazine also notes that the 2011 Best of Boston Home awards were the "most exhaustively researched roundup to date."

Jonathan Henke, owner of Didriks, said: "It is wonderful to receive this award for a second consecutive year. It affirms our continued effort to improve each year in our commitment to our customers. We continue to offer the entire line of Barlow Tyrie furniture, who consistently manufactures an extremely high quality and well designed product."

About Didriks
Didriks helps customers create inspired home environments with their collection of home furnishings, accents and outdoor furniture. Didriks provides attentive, personalized service, including free shipping. Didriks carries the highest quality teak and stainless steel outdoor furniture, designed and manufactured by Barlow Tyrie. Didriks also carries Belgian linens from Libeco Home, vinyl floor mats by Chilewich , dinnerware, fine pottery and cookware from Simon Pearce, iittala, Heath Ceramics, Match Pewter, Mauviel and other fine brands. Didriks has been featured nationally in home furnishings publications such as Elle Decor, Martha Stewart Magazine, Bon Appetit, and Good Housekeeping.

For more information, call 617-354-5700, see the showroom at 190 Concord Ave in Cambridge, MA (M-F 10-7, Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5) or visit the websites at www.didriks.com and www.belgian-linen.com.

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