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In 1979, the business once again changed names, this time from Whitley Furniture Company to Whitley Furniture Galleries. [11] In 1993, Nancy and Amos retired, passing down the business to their son Charles and his sister Nelle. [12] The business had the largest furniture stock in the Research Triangle until its closing in 2022. [2]
The company is the licensed manufacturer of furniture designed by architects and designers such as Harry Bertoia, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, Florence Knoll, Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Maya Lin, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli, [3] under the company's KnollStudio division.
In 1952 Schaefer's work was included in MoMA's exhibition Good Design. [7] The same year she won a design award from MoMA. [2] From 1950 through 1961 Schaefer designed furniture for M. Singer and Sons Furniture Company. [4] Schaefer was a member of the Decorators Club of New York, serving two terms as president and, in 1959, receiving their ...
Carlyle Weinberger founded Ashley Furniture in Chicago in 1945 as a sales operation. Specializing in wooden occasional furniture, Ashley marketed goods made by local companies. Later the company opened a branch in Goshen, Indiana. In 1970, Ashley invested in the Wisconsin-based Arcadia Furniture, founded by Thomas Brosseau. Even though Arcadia ...
By the third year, the new company moved to a larger location. [2] In 1889, J.J. and Michael entered a partnership with the owner of a neighboring furniture store, Amos G. Rhodes, forming the Rhodes-Haverty Furniture Company. A year and a half after the first Rhodes-Haverty store opened, J.J. Haverty moved westward to St. Louis, Missouri with ...
Ballard Designs was founded in 1983 [20] by Helen Ballard. Ballard got her start in the retail industry after winning Metropolitan Home magazine's home decorating contest. . When the photos of her Ansley Park condo were published, more than 500 readers contacted the magazine asking where they could buy Ballard's furniture and accessories, especially a dolphin-based ta
W. & J. Sloane advertisement from September 1902. W. & J. Sloane, (W&J Sloane, Sloane's), was a chain of furniture stores that originated from a luxury furniture and rug store in New York City that catered to the prominent, including the White House and the Breakers, and wealthy, including the Rockefeller, Whitney, and Vanderbilt families.
SINGULART is an online contemporary art and design furniture premium shop based in Paris, France, [1] [2] [3] and founded in 2017. [4] It caters to painters, photographers, sculptors, [5] [6] furniture designers (since 2022) and has over 10,000 artists. [7] [8] Google also worked with SINGULART in 2020 as part of its Google Accelerator. [9] [10 ...