Bassett Home Furniture

Big chair is at home

Sunday, September 20, 2009

By DEBBIE HALL - Bulletin Staff Writer

A big chair that traveled all around the country now is at home in uptown Martinsville, where it symbolizes the area’s past, present and future.

Bassett Furniture Industries President and CEO Rob Spilman said it is fitting that the chair’s “final resting place is right here in the seat of the furniture industry.”

Spilman was among several speakers at a dedication ceremony/ribbon cutting Friday. About 150 people heard him say the chair was built to mark Bassett Furniture’s 100th anniversary in 2002, and then it was used to open Bassett Furniture stores across the U.S.

The company donated it for use as an icon in the local Deep Roots campaign, which will use the area’s furniture, textile and motorsports legacies as a springboard for tourism and revitalization efforts, according to www.visitmartinsville.com.

The project would not have been possible if

Source: Martinsville Bulletin

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With signs loudly proclaiming “All Must Go,” the Bassett Home Furnishings store on Seminole Trail, opened just less than five years ago , will now be closing its doors.

An invitation-only sale that started July 16 opened to the public Monday, August 3, and the store has hired a liquidator to handle the closing. While no final date has been set for the closure, the store’s owner Cort Kirkley said the store may remain open into early September for Labor Day weekend.

The stock for Bassett Furniture Industries, traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange as BSET , has seen substantial drops since trading around $16 in early 2007. The stock

I don’t think it’s quite fair to pick and choose who the “major players” for furniture in Charlottesville are. What about Classic Furniture? What about Artful Lodger? If you’re going to give everybody free press, do so evenly. And I hardly consider “Ryal’s” to be anything shaking up the local furniture market. The store looks like a permanent yard sale and is filthy. Again, why not mention other antiques folks? You guys sure do seem to pick and choose…

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