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Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. is a furniture manufacturer and retailer, headquartered in Bassett, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1902 by John D. Bassett, Charles C. Bassett, Samuel H. Bassett, Reed L. Stone. Bassett Furniture is one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in Virginia.
ZIP Code: 01453. Area code: 508/978: FIPS code: 25-35075: GNIS feature ID: 0617697: Website: www.leominster-ma.gov: ... By the 1850s, paper mills, piano makers, and ...
The dining room furniture for his John J. Glessner House (1885–87) in Chicago, Illinois, was designed by an associate, Charles Coolidge, and executed by Davenport & Co. [11] Coolidge also designed the desk in the study. [12] The custom-designed case for the Steinway grand piano was made by the company, and is attributed to Bacon. [13] [14]
Line art drawing of a davenport. Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct.Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a genericized trademark in parts of the United States.
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Poltrona Frau is a furniture-maker founded in 1912 by Sardinian-born Renzo Frau [2] in Turin, Italy, headquartered since the early 1960s [3] in Tolentino and specializing in leather seating for interior and automotive applications. [4] The company name combines poltrona, the Italian word for 'armchair', and Frau, the last name of its founder.
Thos. Moser is a handmade-furniture company in Maine, United States. Founded by Thomas and Mary Moser in 1972, in New Gloucester, Maine, it has grown from a one-couple operation to employing around seventy craftsmen. [1] [2] Since 1987, the business has been based in Auburn, Maine, working out of a 90,000 square feet (8,400 m 2) workshop. [3]
Gardner is the birthplace of the Heywood-Wakefield Company, dating from 1826 when the five Heywood brothers, Walter, Levi, Seth, Benjamin, and William, began to fashion wooden chairs and furniture in a barn near their family farm. In the early years, Walter fashioned chairs by hand, also using a foot lathe.