September 13,
2013 by in Industry, Special Events 
Organizers of Saturday's 20th annual Bassett Heritage Festival had the bands hired and the details plotted out: For the first time, the festival would be held on land where the first Bassett Furniture Inds. factory once stood, back when it was this small unincorporated town's reason for being.
Old-timers still call that 1902 plant "Old Town," even though it closed in 1989, the first Bassett factory to fall as imports from Asia decimated Southern furniture- and textile-making, wiping out almost half of the jobs in Martinsville and Henry County alone.
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Source: The Roanoke Times
September 12,
2013 by in Designer Weekly
The Michigan AIDS Coalition (MAC) in partnership with DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS will host the fourth annual Dining by Design event in Detroit later this month.
September 12,
2013 by in Designer Weekly, Industry, Obituaries
Walter Bergquist, 67, a retired fabric sales director and history buff, died Sunday in Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, N.Y.
September 12,
2013 by in Designer Weekly
The Design Center at The Merchandise Mart will be hosting Design Chicago Oct. 8-9.
September 12,
2013 by in Designer Weekly
The Ethan Allen Hotel in Danbury, Conn., completed the first phase of a three-phase, multimillion-dollar renovation of the hotel's front and rear lobbies, ballrooms, corridors, guestrooms and public spaces.
September 12,
2013 by in Designer Weekly
Washing clothes in the bedroom. Sending email from the laundry room.
September 12,
2013 by in Designer Weekly
While escaping to the countryside at the weekend for a Londoner is just lovely, if you choose somewhere really far away, you're likely to have just enough time to unpack before it's time to jump in the car and head back to the city again.