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Furniture Brands International, Inc. was a home furnishings company, headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. The company began in 1911 as International Shoe Company with the merger of Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Company and Peters Shoe Company .
Combined with its parent company in Texas, Chair King, it is believed to be the largest independent outdoor furniture dealer in the country. [ 1 ] Fortunoff Fine Jewelry, licensed by Esther Fortunoff, operates a single store at the Lesso Home New York in the East Garden City section of Uniondale, New York – as well as online.
In 1885, it was incorporated as The Taylor Chair Company. [1] As an Ohio Corporation it began with capitalization of $100,000 and an issue of 1,000 shares of stock. [2] Following incorporation the company grew in volume of sales and in the breadth of its product lines. By 1907 there were 102 different designs of chairs being produced. [1]
MillerKnoll, Inc., doing business as Herman Miller, is an American company that produces office furniture, equipment, and home furnishings. Its best known designs include the Aeron chair , Noguchi table , Marshmallow sofa , Mirra chair , and the Eames Lounge Chair .
Milo Ray Baughman, Jr. (October 7, 1923 – July 23, 2003) born in Goodland, Kansas, was a modern furniture designer. Baughman designed for a number of furniture companies starting in the mid-1940s until his death, including Mode Furniture, Glenn of California, The Inco Company, Pacific Iron, Murray Furniture of Winchendon, Arch Gordon, George Kovacs, Directional, and Drexel, among others.
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. This piece is particularly influential because it introduces a simple, yet elegant and light-weight industrial material to be used in structures within the ...
The chair was a success; they held a contest to name it—La-Z-Boy was the winner. [ 3 ] In 1969, after years primarily as a manufacturer of recliners, La-Z-Boy started designing other products including reclining sofas, sleep sofas and modular groups.
Following the production of the tulip chair, the tulip table was designed by Saarinen. In 1953, the company was accorded exclusive manufacturing and sales rights to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe furniture, including the Barcelona chair , which was designed in collaboration with Lilly Reich for the 1929 Barcelona Pavilion .