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The first formal Southern Furniture Market was held in High Point March 1–15, 1909. In 1921, the Southern Furniture Exposition Building opened for its first show June 20. Built in 19 months, the showroom cost approximately $1 million and held 249,000 square feet (23,100 m 2) of exhibition space. Regular shows were held in January and July.
Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co., Inc., also known as the Old Masonic Temple, is an historic building at 901 F Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Penn Quarter neighborhood. History [ edit ]
The American University Museum is a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (3,000 m 2) museum and sculpture garden located within the university's Katzen Arts Center.As the region's largest university facility for exhibiting art, the museum's permanent collection highlights the holdings of the Katzen and Watkins collection.
Scan Furniture was a co-operative furniture chain that operated six stores in the metropolitan Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area selling modern Scandinavian furniture. Unusually, it was founded in 1938 as a grocery store in Greenbelt, Maryland , which became the Greenbelt Cooperative in 1940.
Wayfair Big Furniture sale: 20+ picks for fall from an interior designer — save up to 50%. Jessica Becker. Updated September 18, 2023 at 11:06 AM.
Levitz Furniture store during liquidation sale, December 2007. Levitz was accused of having been poorly run for more than a decade starting in the 1990s. It declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy twice during the period, in 1997 and again in 2005, both times emerging after a corporate restructuring and the participation of new outside backers.
During the Dynastic Period, which began in around 3200 BCE, Egyptian art developed significantly, and this included furniture design. [14] Egyptian furniture was primarily constructed using wood, but other materials were sometimes used, such as leather, [15] and pieces were often adorned with gold, silver, ivory and ebony, for decoration. [15]
March 24, 1969 The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century. The gallery is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was opened in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery ...