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- [Allan] Our business is very, very much people-related.
People made by hand most all the furniture
and the accessories that we do.
There are very few furniture companies
that the company actually bears the name
of somebody who's alive and well.
- I'd like to introduce you to Allan Palecek,
my father, our founder and Chairman of the Board.
- Andrew is Chief of Product Development,
Creative Designer, if you will.
This is our facility over here in Richmond, California.
So, welcome to Palecek.
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And it's very, very important to me
that Andrew is carrying on
that family tradition, the family name.
- We take the quality very, very seriously.
When you're a designer and you're designing a home,
there is an incredible amount of pride
and responsibility that happens.
- This chair starts, actually, as a plain wooden chair
that you saw outside.
It gets finished.
See we've added the padded arms.
The back stays the same.
Really, you need growth position, and with that,
we're wanting to find a bank
that could give us personal service.
And that's what we found with Bank of Marin.
It started actually with a commercial loan
and that worked very, very well.
More importantly, Bank of Marin has helped us
with the day-to-day, the day-to-day deposits,
in some cases, with collection problems
with different accounts,
and Bank of Marin has been there to help us.
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- And we're able to take a little bit of risk
and to be flexible and to do what we do best,
and that is furniture.
- So that's the tour in a nutshell.