Furniture World Magazine
By Russell Bienenstock on
1/23/2021
Arizona Leather
Retailers are arrested, die
of apoplexy, visit furniture shows and pioneer DTC mattress sales models. It's the same old home furnishings business!
Just 10 years following the founding of the Pony Express, the first copy of Furniture World's predecessor publication “The Cabinetmaker“ made its way into the mails. By 1870, Ulysses S. Grant had been in the White House for about a year, the US Government just recognized the new French Republic and people mourned the recent death of Charles Dickens.
1895–A Changing World
By 1895, the entire world of furniture had changed.
The furniture industry had transitioned from creating its products in cabinet-making shops to mechanized factories. This was a continuation and an acceleration of a trend started in the US three quarters of a century earlier with the founding of the Hitchcock Chair Company in 1818.