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4400 Sharon Rd.Charlotte, NC 28211704-366-6252 Tempur-Pedic King of PrussiaKing of Prussia Mall 680 W. DeKalb PikeKing of Prussia, PA 19406610-271-8094 Did you know that your browser is out of date? Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatiable with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below. Just click on the icons to go to the download page and upgrade your browser. When only one pharmacist is on duty the Pharmacy may be closed for 30 minutes between the hours of 1:30pm and 2:30pmLast week, we visited the studio of Victoria Martinez- an interdisciplinary artist that makes mixed media ephemeral (meaning not long-lasting) collages and oh! what a lasting impression she made! Our studio visit group this month included Ken Stewart, CEO of Rebuild Foundation, Victor Ivy, a Greater Grand Crossing graphic artist and community member and me- an Arts Bank Gallery Coordinator. We drove up to Little Village from the Bank on the first not-a-cloud-in-the-sky day of the Spring, talking about horoscopes, tacos, and Victor’s art practice.
Although we had all seen Victoria’s work on her website and knew that she worked with fibers and found objects, none of us knew exactly what to expect. We pulled up to the correct address, I snapped a few photos of the exterior and were warmly greeted by Victoria, rocking a pair of green beaded earrings and a killer haircut. She led us through the space explaining that it used to be a mattress store and was now used as an arts space in the back (the front of the building was a packed treasure trove of items, floor to ceiling.) When we reached the sunlit back room, we found Victoria’s work (that is to say the work that was living in Chicago and not somewhere else in the world, donated to a community, mounted and walked away from in Brazil or Guatemala.) She offered us bottles of water and talked about her travels, her public sculptures and her work with young people. Victoria showed us the books that she had made by hand and the book that she is featured in ( by Rebecca Zorach.)
Victor asked Victoria about the hash marks that are present in many of her pieces and she talked about her love for line and how she associated hash marks with the letters she would decorate to her brother when she was younger. Victoria’s work jumps off the walls and speaks to the viewer with its jazzy, vivacious, dance party quality. If Keith Haring was a Brown girl fiber artist- Victoria Martinez would be her! Her commitment to ephemerality was evident as she considered where her pieces might be after she mounts them, after she walks away and donates them to a place and time. Victoria’s approach to making: with her material resourcefulness, sharp aesthetic prowess and joyful spirit of community inspired this month’s studio visit group to no end! Art Van: Chicago is our kind of town Firm targets Illinois stores, Michigan growth Art Van Furniture Inc. is poised to enter the country's third-largest market for furniture and mattress sales: Chicago.At the same time, the Warren-based company is making moves to expand in Michigan, with franchise agreements for new markets, investments in its high-end Scott Shuptrine Interiors line and a new appliance business.
Those efforts follow Art Van's previously announced expansion in the Toledo area. Art Van has acquired one property and leased five others to open six stores in the Chicago area between July and September, CEO Kim Yost told Crain's late last week. The stores will open in Batavia, Bolingbrook, Orland Park, Ford City and Lincoln Park, Ill., and Merrillville, Ind. Yost declined to say which suburb it has purchased property in, what it paid or who the seller was, citing competitive reasons. "We haven't found a location in downtown Chicago that works for us -- yet," Yost said. The stores are the first of what will be more than a dozen Art Van furniture stores and an equal number of mattress stores over the next three years, the company said in a LinkedIn job description for a regional training manager in Chicago. Yost declined to disclose the size of the Chicago-area stores, citing competitive reasons, but Crain's Chicago Business reported in September that the company had hired local real estate brokers to look for 60,000-square-foot sites.
To supply inventory to the new stores, Art Van has leased an 180,000-square-foot warehouse in Bolingbrook that will work in tandem with its 1 million-square-foot warehouse in Warren. In addition to its furniture lines, the new stores will include Art Van's affiliate companies: Pure Sleep mattresses, World of Floors, Art Van Clearance Centers, Paul's TV and a new segment coming into all Art Van locations: Paul's Appliances, featuring Samsung and other brands in washers, dryers, refrigerators and stoves, Yost said. The total investment so far in the leases, build-out costs and inventory for the Chicago stores is north of $40 million, Yost said, not including advertising and employee hires that are expected to be in the hundreds. "Over the next five years when we're fully built out, we want to get 10 percent market share or greater in Chicago," he said. That would be $220 million of the $2.2 billion market for furniture and mattresses in the greater Chicago area, Yost said, citing the trade publication Furniture Today.Art Van ranked No. 43 on Crain's Private 200 list for 2012, with 2011 revenue of $470 million, up from $430 million the year before.
Art Van's move into Chicago is timed right, given the availability of high-quality space at favorable lease rates and high demand, said Mary Frye, president of the Home Furnishings Independents Association in Dallas. Even though well-established companies like Walter E. Smithe and Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. operate in Chicago, "for a well-run operation like Art Van, I believe there's room in the market," Frye said. "Chicago is an area they'll be able to build a following in because they are doing the right things (with) knowledgeable, well-trained personnel, prepared to take care of customers." Branching out Art Van's move into the Chicago area will precede its first store openings in Ohio. The company is set to open four Pure Sleep mattress stores in Toledo between this fall and next spring and in September will open its first furniture store in Ohio: a 90,000-square-foot showroom in the Toledo suburb of Springfield Township. The stores will create an estimated 115 jobs, Art Van said.
Even as it expands into other states, Art Van is growing in its home state. It has signed agreements for three new franchises, in Gaylord, Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette, after opening its first franchised locations in mid-January in Alpena and Mt. Pleasant. And it looks to increase market share in the luxury furniture segment. Art Van is nearing completion of a $3 million flagship showroom for Scott Shuptrine on Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, set to open March 7. The existing Scott Shuptrine showrooms within Art Van stores are about 5,000 square feet each, with 26 room settings, Yost said. At 12,300 square feet, the Woodward showroom will give the business space to show 60 luxury-brand room settings. Art Van bought Scott Shuptrine in 1987, 60 years after the high-end furniture company was formed. It closed the brand's stores in 2002 as part of a plan to concentrate on its main brand. Scott Shuptrine features higher-quality, more-expensive furniture and consultation with designers as part of the buying process.
When Art Van brought the brand back in 2010, it planned to open a flagship showroom, Yost said. "We have been waiting for a location that would truly represent the brand in a significant way," he said. The higher household income of residents along Woodward and the Birmingham corridor represent a strong customer profile for Scott Shuptrine, Yost said. Art Van plans to open three more store-in-store showrooms for the brand at its Art Van stores in Novi, Shelby Township and Ann Arbor between this fall and next spring, for an investment of about $1 million each, Yost said. They join store-in-store showrooms at Art Van stores in Warren, Grand Rapids and Petoskey. The goal is to grow Shuptrine to $20 million in annual revenue from its current $3 million within 36 months, Yost said. High on high-end The high-end furniture market locally has more opportunity for expansion after closures over the past several years of well-known local brands including Schwark Furniture and Classic Interiors in Livonia and local store closures by companies including La-Z-Boy Inc. and Thomasville, said Tom Lias, president of Farmington Hills-based Gorman's Furniture Inc. Gorman's has seen 12 percent revenue increases in each of the past three years