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Meet Guy Quezada. He’s a welder, fabricator, accessory designer, manufacturer and founder of Guy Q Goods. More recently he’s the manufacturer of a custom made bench which was all hand crafted with leather straps that intertwine which makes for a very unique design. Guy was kind enough to let us have this bench in our shop & it’s been a great addition. If you need any custom work, feel free to hit him up here & tell him we sent you. Thanks Guy!

In the developing stages of Ceria, we began visiting Carnicerias & taking pictures of all the different store setups. We found that no Carniceria is ever the same, but the one thing that remained similar is that every Carniceria had some kind of mural to represent their store. We began to document all the artwork, some good some bad.  In the midst of all this, we found out there was someone who was also documenting the same thing, but simply for their sheer love of these paintings. He goes by the name of Tony Mora. We eventually got in contact with Tony & shortly thereafter he shared with us his entire photo collection of Carniceria storefronts & murals. From this, we were able to dig deeper & gather ideas for creating Ceria. Shouts to Tony for this. Here are a few shots from his collection that we will post every so often to pay tribute to the artists that created the artwork. The first photo is a Carniceria in which our logo was developed from. Peep the cow & enjoy!

Original painting by Tony Mora
“ITS MY LOVE OF THE CARNICERIA STORE PAINTINGS. I’VE ALWAYS HAD A FASCINATION WITH THEM EVER SINCE I WAS A LITTLE KID. SEEING THESE SOMEWHAT SURREAL AND FANCIFUL PAINTINGS DEPICTING THE FOODS THAT I WOULD BE EATING LATER THAT DAY. THIS IS MY TRIBUTE TO THOSE PAINTINGS AND THE ARTISTS THAT MADE THEM. BON APETIT!” -Words from Tony Mora

Big up to the crew over at LA Market & TLR & Co. for this. They recently did  a segment on the shop for their site LA Market, capturing the essence of what Ceria is about. We appreciate the work put into this. Be sure to check out the full story here. Props due!

On the 4th of July, Ventura hosted a big street fair on Main. The event brought out the beauty of what downtown has to offer. The food & music were all on point which made for an all around good time. Ceria got a lot of first time customers come thru our doors to see what we were all about. It was great to show what we had to offer to some new faces. Here’s a quick recap of what went down this past weekend at Ceria. 

Check out Ceria featured on SOCIETY805.COM, a new lifestyle resource for Ventura & Santa Barbara Counties. Thanks to the crew at Society 805 for visiting the shop. On to the next…

This is a CERIA certified event and we’ll be in the house supplying some dope giveaways all night.