A longtime eastern Iowa furniture store has announced they’re going out of business, after decades of furnishing the homes of their community and surrounding counties.
According to its website, Keller’s Home Furnishings in Tipton was established in 1978 and has served customers from not only Cedar County, but Johnson, Jones, Linn, Muscatine, and Scott County through the years. However, a furniture store in Tipton has been a constant for much longer than that.
Keller’s Home Furnishings, which dubs itself ‘Iowa’s Most Beautiful Furniture Store’, has announced they’re going out of business. In making
Washington — Whether due to higher prices or a few more customers coming into stores, furniture and home furnishings bounced back in June, according to advance estimates from the Department of Commerce.
It’s a reversal for the category, and retail as a whole, after May’s report saw declines across several categories. For the month, the home furnishings retail category posted adjusted sales of $12,382 billion, up 1.4% from May’s adjusted $12.209 billion. Year-over-year, furniture and home furnishings sales were up 4.6% against June 2021’s $11.837 billion.
Over the past six months, unadjusted sales for furniture and home furnishings came in
NEW YORK — WHP Global has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with Nova Design Inc. to develop and distribute a home furniture line for the Anne Klein brands. The Anne Klein Furniture Collection is slated to debut in Winter 2022 and will be carried in select stores and e-commerce retailers throughout the US
The collection will include upholstered sofas, loveseats, sectionals, daybeds and ottomans, occasional tables, bedroom and dining furniture, home office as well as outdoor furniture. The collection’s designs will be influenced by Anne Klein’s homes at Sutton Place
Store with a Marshalls and HomeGoods logos on the side.
I love the line in Auntie Mame, a romantic comedy released in 1958, when her nephew Patrick’s stuck-up and somewhat ditzy fiancée, Gloria, sees the library in Mame’s home and says, “I love books; they’re so decorative.”
Well, the fine art of decorating homes has come a long way since then, and thank heavens it has for the gift and home business. Home décor has become a huge business, as witnessed by their place in both wholesale markets and independent specialty stores around the country. Consumers have been
There’s always been a taste for antique furnishings. These days, a widely acquired taste.
Antiques are hot partly because of supply chain delays and higher prices for many custom or mass-market pieces. There’s also the public’s turn toward sustainability: Environmentally-conscious buyers are averse to throwaway furniture, and are trying to reuse and recycle.