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Nest of tables ("quartetto", early 1800s) Nest of tables (also known as nested tables, nesting tables) is a set of few tables with progressively smaller heights and frames, so that they can be stacked when not in use. [1] A smaller table slides inside the frame of a larger one until it engages the edge of the back frame. [2] Typically a set ...
The Argosy Book Store is New York City's oldest independent bookstore.Located at 116 East 59th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, it occupies an entire six-story townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions, Americana, leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs. [1]
The Eagle Warehouse & Storage Company, commonly referred to as the Eagle Warehouse, is a building in the Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn in New York City. Designed by Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman and completed in 1894, it had a number of uses before being converted into apartments in 1980.
Stellar Style Events, a New York-based event company, leaned heavily into the bright yellow shades of early spring's blooming branches. Lemons were tucked into sculptural arrangements that evoked ...
Kings Plaza (officially the Kings Plaza Shopping Center) is a shopping center within the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States.Opened in September 1970, [1] [3] [4] it is located at the southeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U, just north of Floyd Bennett Field.
Sears opened its first retail store in New York City in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1930. They announced a new flagship store for the location at Bedford Avenue and Beverly Road in March 1932; the site was near the busy commercial area on Flatbush Avenue, and its location was chosen to target the "motoring shopper"—land in ...
The New York City store closed in 2012. Before closing, it was the subject of a New York Times case study which detailed the difficulties experienced by the store. [ 12 ] In 2013, glassybaby opened a retail outlet in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood. [ 13 ]
Note 6] Professor Warren C. Scoville of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in an essay titled Growth of the American Glass Industry to 1880, considered the five outstanding glassmaking innovations up to that time to be 1) mechanical pressing; 2) the new soda-lime (a.k.a. lime) glass formula; 3) the shift from wood to coal for fuel; 4 ...