Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room Kentwood House, peered and poked at beds, chairs, desks, tables and sideboards that looked like classical pieces with the classical ornaments knocked off. Modernistic extremes were lacking, but living-room furniture was scaled down in size, upholstery was in modernistic shades of blue and pink. Proud Grand Rapidans called Kentwood a "distinct American style, capable of change to suit a changing world." Purists grumbled that it was a bastard style, neither classic nor modern...
Kentwood was the idea of nine manufacturers* who teamed up in Depression to form the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild and promote the prestige of Guild-stamped furniture. First plans were drawn by a designer named David Laing Evans, a pipe-smoking, spare-time student of astronomy. Designer Evans submitted ideas that were basically classical. Thereafter the designers for all nine Guildsmen collaborated in streamlining the classics. The pooling of their efforts was an unheard-of procedure in their individualistic industry...
...building cycle, and the automobile has long since displaced it as Public Want No. 2 (No. 1 is food & clothing). But even in 1938 manufacturers turned out nearly $400,000,000 worth of furniture, double their 1932 volume, and forecasters are cheerful about the industry's 1939 prospects. Grand Rapids is especially cheerful about Kentwood's prospects...
...nine: Imperial Furniture Co., Mueller Furniture Co., Johnson Furniture Co., Johnson, Handley & Johnson, Grand Rapids Chair Co., The Widdicomb Furniture Co., Ralph Morse Furniture Co., John Widdicomb Co., Brower Furniture...
...youngster have toddled, off with the honors, if there are any honors, in the current cinemas at the University. Besides the Mountie thriller, "Heart of the North," in which little Janet Chapman, as a precocious frontier orphan weighing in at 72, makes a grand partner for Dick Foran, at a mere 225, there is "Listen, Darling," a Judy Garland vehicle. This latter picture features, besides Miss Garland's warbling--now geting quite torchy for the Temple-Withers-Granville circuit--a modern Dan'l Boone and his "striped beaver," more commonly known as a skunk. The beaver is much funnier than...