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Habitat (a trading name of Argos Limited) is a brand of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group. Founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran , it merged with a number of other retailers in the 1980s to create Storehouse plc , before the latter sold Habitat to the Ikano Group, owned by the ...
Argos was launched with thousands of staff, taking £1 million during a week in November. [10] Argos was purchased by BAT Industries in 1979 for £32 million. In 1980, Argos opened its Elizabeth Duke jewellery counter (named after a director's wife) and by 1982, was the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest jewellery retailer.
Sofa.com has appeared twice in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the UK, first in 2011 [10] and again in 2012. [11] Sofa.com sales grew from £572,000 in 2007 to £13.0m in the year ending February 2012. In February 2015, CBPE Capital acquired a majority stake in the business. [12]
To conserve space, some sofas double as beds in the form of sofa beds, daybeds, or futons. A Kubus sofa by Josef Hoffmann (1910) A furniture set consisting of a sofa with two matching chairs [17] is known as a "chesterfield suite" [18] or "living-room suite". [19] In the UK, the word chesterfield was used to refer to any couch in the 1900s. A ...
Sofology started out as CSL Sofas, and was originally an auction rooms based in Clayton-le-Moors, Accrington, Lancashire. In 1982, after including catalogue seconds lounge furniture, they moved into specialist sofa retail and manufacture. The company originally started as a high street store chain, selling only its own products. [citation needed]
This Rococo Revival canapé delivered to the Vermont State House in 1859 would have been called a settee.. A canapé is a piece of furniture similar to a couch.The word is typically meant to describe an elegant couch made out of elaborately carved wood with wooden legs, an upholstered back, armrests, and a single long seat (instead of separate cushions) that typically seats three, that emerged ...