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2. Scandinavian design - Wikipedia

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   The Brooklyn Museum's 1954 "Design in Scandinavia" exhibition launched "Scandinavian Modern" furniture on the American market. [1]Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.

3. ILVA - Wikipedia

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   ILVA is a Danish chain of furniture stores, offering mostly Scandinavian-style bed-, dining-and living room products. The company was founded in 1974, and currently runs eight stores in the Nordic countries. It also had three stores in Britain for about two years, but these were forced to close down during the 2008 financial crisis.

4. Danish modern - Wikipedia

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   Danish modern also known as Scandinavian modern is a style of minimalist furniture and housewares from Denmark associated with the Danish design movement. In the 1920s, Kaare Klint embraced the principles of Bauhaus modernism in furniture design, creating clean, pure lines based on an understanding of classical furniture craftsmanship coupled with careful research into materials, proportions ...

5. J. Peterman Company - Wikipedia

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   On November 24, 2010, the company was the first to use the marketing term "Red Wednesday Sale," referring to the Wednesday before Thanksgiving as "Black Friday's Impetuous Cousin." In January 2011, the J. Peterman Company received a Job Creation Tax Credit incentive from the state of Ohio valued at $122,000 over a six-year term.

6. Scandinavian Design (store) - Wikipedia

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   Scandinavian Design, Inc. was a furniture retailer located in New York City. It was founded in 1955 by Hans Lindblom and his wife Celia, who sold the work of their friend, Swedish designer Bruno Mathsson , under the name Bruno Mathsson Furniture . [ 1 ]

7. Bauhaus (company) - Wikipedia

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   The name contains the German words bauen (to build) and Haus (house), but also alludes to the modernist Bauhaus school and the company's founder and owner, the German billionaire Heinz-Georg Baus. Its first store opened in Mannheim, West Germany in 1960. Bauhaus has a total of 280 franchised stores, with more than 150 of them located in Germany ...

8. Carl Hansen & Søn - Wikipedia

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   In the early 1950s, modern Danish furniture design also began to attract attention abroad and especially in the US. Together with four other manufacturers of Wegner furniture, Carl Hansen & Søn established a joint sales company, Salesco, which was responsible for exhibitions and marketing abroad, including on the furniture fairs in Cologne .

9. Thomasville Furniture Industries - Wikipedia

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   Lambeth Furniture began in 1901 and was sold to Knox Furniture in 1928 and Thomasville Chair in 1932. [1] B.F. Huntley Furniture began in 1906 on Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and grew into the largest bedroom and dining room furniture manufacturer in the country. Its Winston-Salem plant burned in 1956, though a two-story ...