Our Company Madera Exotic Woods manufactures exotic woods jewelry and accessories. We started operations in the US in 2006. Our wood is handcrafted in Costa Rica and the factory has been operating since 1985.The manufacturing site in Costa Rica employs some 250 residents of local communities and creates business to the local wood industry by buying all our wood locally. Our company principle is to enjoy the beauties of nature without damaging it. We want to send out the message that there are ways of enjoying our natural resources and that if we are aware of the beauty available to us, we will be more conscious of how to take care of it. We show our environmental stance by only using sustainable woods, by keeping the wood in its natu-ral state not applying stains, varnishes, polishes or any type of chemicals and by only using lead and nickel free metals.

Madera’s line is made in Costa Rica. We use lead free - nickel free sterling plated pieces, string, natural leather and suede. .

Madera Exotic Woods

Company and Product Presentation

Style with the luxury of a green conscience

Our Products We would like to introduce to you our three product lines: Korto Momolu, Madera and 950 Studio.

Korto Momolu was born in Liberia and immigrated with her family to Canada in 1990 to escape the African nation’s civil war. She studied fashion in Ontario before moving to Arkansas, where she still lives with her husband and daughter. During the season finale of Project Runway, Korto presented her spring 2009 collection at Bryant Park during New York Fashion Week and ultimately ended the season as 1st runner up. She was awarded the fan favorite prize. Korto stands out as a designer who embraces color and diversity . The Saba Collection (Sah-bah means gift in her native tongue, Lorma, a tribe in Liberia) is a collabo-ration inspired by the beauty of the wood, the environmental conscience and the social history be-hind our products

Our 950 Studio collection features Silver 950. The silver elements are added in Peru. We use a purer silver, with a 95% of silver and 5 percent of cooper (in comparison to Sterling, which is 92.5% silver)

Our Exotic Woods

We work with four different types of wood: Rosewood (Dalbergia retusa) Is a very beautiful wood, ranging from a beautiful rich dark brick red, to reddish or dark brown, with a figuring of darker irregular traces weaving through the wood. It is fine tex-tured and oily in look and feel. Rum-Rum (Astronium graveolens) It has a tan yellowish color. This timber figure is very attractive, with brown-dark or black vertical lines, narrow to wide with irregular space. Cortex (Tabebuia Chrysantha) Its heartwood is light to dark olive brown, often with attractive lighter or darker striping and striking contrasts with the lighter color sapwood. It has a fine texture medium luster and a somewhat oily appearance. Purple Heart (Amaranth Peltogyne spp) One of the most distinctive woods in the world. It is prized for its very unusual deep purple

color. When freshly cut, this dense hardwood is light brown. Within minutes the surface

turns an astonishing bright purple. This beautiful wood is straight to wavy grained.

All our products are available in any of the four types of wood above, or in a combination of all of them.

Orders, lead times and terms

Our minimum order is $300.00. There are no minimums in terms of styles and types of wood ordered. No minimum for reorders. Lead time is 3 to 4 weeks. We don’t carry stoke so each order is manufactured when placed. Orders are shipped from Charlotte, NC. Each order will include: Products, natural cotton mill drawstring pouches for each product, romance card with wood description, POP material such as flyers or postcards. We accept Visa, MC and American Express.

Style with the luxury of a green conscience

Alexandra, native of Costa Rica, grew up learning to love, appreci-ate and care for Nature. With a teaching background, she always showed an inclination to the arts and crafts. Her natural ability to create beautiful things out of thin air lead her to experiment in jew-elry design. She started out with gemstones, but gradually moved to what have surrounded her all her life, the rainforest and its incredible exotic woods.

Opportunities Wood has traditionally been appreciated for its beauty in much type of products, yet this beauty was not fully available in jewelry and accessories in general. Madera is bringing a new product to the market that, for the first time, uses exotic woods for the whole collection, in styles that matches the trends of the fashion jewelry industry. With all sorts of manmade materials and technologies, the opportunity to enjoy truly natural, handcrafted articles, is fast becoming rare. We created a line of fashion jewelry that lets experience the looks of to-day, with the magnificence of natural handcrafted, exotic wood. Today’s fashion trends are putting together the concept of fashion-conscience to create awareness on environmental issues. Madera’s collection allows buyers to enjoy fashion with the luxury of a green con-science. We offer a green, handcrafted, upscale product, with a high perceived value, but we able to keep very

competitive prices. This allows us to offer our customers high margins opportunities.

Madera’s jewelry is designed by Maria Isabel Morillo and

Alexandra Pinto.

Together these two women, now sisters in law, have been able to have a successful

career, doing what they both love.

Our Designers

Style with the luxury of a green conscience

Maria Isabel, born in Raleigh, NC, to Venezuelan parents, has been a truly international citizen of the world. Having lived in Venezuela, Brazil,

Thailand, Peru, Costa Rica and now in the USA, she has learned about beauty and design. In Costa Rica she fell in love with the wood and de-cided to use this amazing material to give shape to the inspiration coming from her life experiences. With the beautiful exotic woods she has been creating designs to match today’s world: contemporary and trendy yet classic and everlast-ing.

Catalogs All our catalogs are available for download online at our website www.maderaus.com If you would like to receive a printed copy of our catalog, please send a request to info@maderaus.com

Contact Information

Maria Isabel Morillo

Madera Exotic Woods 7008 Turning Point Lane

Charlotte, NC 28277

Ph: 704.841.0603 Fax: 704.845.9609

Email: info@maderaus.com Website: www.maderaus.com

Style with the luxury of a green conscience