The Best of Everything: CustomMade in Cigar Aficionado

The “Made for You” section of Cigar Aficionado magazine showcases the best hand made and custom items from around the world, and CustomMade is proud to be featured in the upcoming October 2011 issue.

Take a sneak peek at the feature below.

"Made For You," Cigar Aficionado, October 2011

Made For You

In a world of fast food and one-size-fits-all sensibilities, how often does something feel made especially for you? The “Made for You” section celebrates those items that are created with such high quality of hand workmanship and degree of customization that they become individual to you.  In each issue, our editors will endeavor to bring you special things from anywhere on the globe, choosing them solely on the basis of outstanding quality.  Our goal is to give you guidance on the best of everything.

Get It Made – CustomMade.com

What’s great about custom is you can get what you want.  What can be tough is finding artisans in your area who make what you want.  And that’s where CustomMade.com steps in.  You visit the site, put in the parameters of what you want, where you are, your price range and time flexibility.  Then the web site comes back with suggestions.  Do you want a chair fashioned from keys, a table made of bike wheels or your imagination unleashed on a humidor? The web site will help. custommade.com.

Cigar Aficionado is dedicated to the world of cigars and other fine pleasures, such as superb dining and entertainment, superior wines and spirits, and first class travel.

The baroque-style custom made humidor pictured in the magazine was created by JR-Quality, LLC, and designed to hold 100-150 “Churchill size” cigars.  The humidor has a Spanish cedar and mahogany interior, polished gilded brass fittings, an electronic humidity system, and a special hidden drawer for a cutter and lighter (shown below from a side view).  You can have artisan Juergen Eberl design a humidor to your specifications, including your initials, or a picture or pattern you select, on the exterior done in marquetry with walnut, plum, cherry, black poplar burl, and other woods.

Baroque-Style Custom Made Humidor by JR-Quality, LLC, at CustomMade.com

For examples of the highest quality custom made wood cigar humidors, browse our custom cigar humidor design gallery.  If you’re looking for a basic guide to custom humidors, check out our blog post, “Custom Cigar Humidor Design.”

And if you’d like a chair fashioned from keys…

Modern Metal Chair, "Mister Key," by Master and Margarita Art at CustomMade.com

or a table made of bike wheels…

Freestyle Coffee Table by S.D. Feather Custom Furniture at CustomMade.com

just search our diverse, ever-growing CustomMade galleries for the artisans who can make your custom dreams come true.