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Fabindia is an Indian chain store retailing garments, home-decor, furnishings, fabrics and products handmade by craftspeople across rural India. Established in 1960 by John Bissell, an American working for the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, Fabindia started out exporting home furnishings, before stepping into domestic retail in 1976, when it opened its first retail store in Greater Kailash, New ...
Drawing of a brick wall with iron gates, from a 1790 catalog. Trade catalogs, originating in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries primarily in Europe, are print catalogs which advertise products and ideas in words, illustrations, or both. [1] They included decor, ironwork, [2] furniture, and kitchenware. [3]
Bissell acquired Organic India. [7] [8] He has also served as a trustee of Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi.[9]In 2009, he authored Making India Work, published by Penguin India, in which he drew from the experience of working with over 40,000 rural craftspeople in India and addressed India's economical and socio-political challenges.
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The company started manufacturing furniture in 1923, with the Godrej Storewel cupboard. [1] In the year 2006, Godrej Interio was established as a business unit of Godrej & Boyce, part of Godrej Group. [7] [8] [9] In October 2015, Godrej Interio launched U&US Home Design Studio to expand its customized branded furniture business. [10]
Utility Furniture - The 1943 Utility Furniture Catalogue with an explanation of Britain's Second World War Utility Furniture Scheme. ISBN 978-0-9552723-2-5. Reimer, Suzanne; Pinch, Philip (January 2013). "Geographies of the British government's wartime Utility furniture scheme, 1940–1945". Journal of Historical Geography (39): 99– 112.
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Shortly before the end of the decade, the first furniture fittings catalogue appeared with a circulation of 20,000 copies, which was referred to as the "World Globe Catalogue" because of its title page. In 1948, the Adolf Häfele company celebrated its 25th anniversary and the number of employees was 29. Four months later the company founder died.