Porto Receives Metro Bravo! Award

Raleigh, NC, August 09, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Porto, a fine home furnishings store with locations in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, has received a Metro Bravo! Award in the category “Best Place to Buy Beds” from Metro Magazine, a monthly publication covering a 22-county region that includes Raleigh, the Research Triangle, and Eastern North Carolina.

Each spring, Metro Magazine asks its readers to select the best products, stores, services and people from a large selection of categories. The winners are published in Metro’s July and August editions.

Porto offers complete collections of heirloom-quality, handcrafted home furnishings from South Cone, Cisco Brothers, Kravet and Robin Bruce, including their bedroom furniture. Both locations also feature high-end European bed linens, such as Sigred Wagner’s SDH’s all-natural linens of 500-thread count Egyptian cotton and up, and Shades of India’s handmade bed linens and bed covers.

Porto, a member of the Sustainable Furniture Council, is located in Raleigh at 4151 Main at North Hills and in Chapel Hill in Eastgate Shopping Center between East Franklin Street and US 15-501. Hours are Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m.,?Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m, until 8 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. For more information on Porto, visit http://www.portohome.com.

For more information on the Metro Bravo Awards, including a complete list of winners, visit http://www.metronc.com.

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