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Show D4 D A' l L Y ' Sunday, September 7, 2003 H E R A L D Elvis is just one music legend mspirin gfurnitui e makers Barbara Hertenstein , ST. IOUIS v Elvis is back in the building and so are Billie Holiday, Burt Bacharach and George Gershwin, all music legends who have become the latest inspiration for furniture companies. Elvis furniture may have started it all, but now fans have d furniture: more the just released "New Standards: The Steve Tyrell Collection" by Pennsylvania House. Its Billie Holiday slipper chair, Bacharach sofa, Stardust chair and Gershwin sofa represent music greats associated with Tyrell. Tyrell, a jazz smgercomposerproducer, has worked with a wide range of musicians, from Ray Charles and Otis Redding to Rickie Lee Jones and Elvis. The Elvis furniture idea came to John Bassett, president of Vaughn-BasseCo., when he couldn't get a rental car or a hotel room in Memphis during the annual August anniversary events marking Elvis' death on ' Aug. 16 in 1977. "They told my father there were 40,000 people in town because of Elvis," said his son, Doug Bassett, as he guided a small group around the Elvis showroom at last fall's semiannual High Point International Furniture Show in North Carolina. "The first thing my father thought is: "That's 40,000 bedrooms!' " He imagined fans sleeping in ,a Love Me Tender bed or gazing into a Gold Record mirror and began the collection with two bedroom sets: Love Me Tender, a Victorian style,, and a trendy Hollywood '50s look. "Elvis had the misfortune to die in the least tasteful decade in the history of man," Bassett said, having fun telling the story and showing the furniture. "It's Elvis interpreted for to day's customer, more a '50s or '60s look," Bassett said. "Not the way things looked in 77 when Sale starts Monday. Sept. 8th thru Saturday, Sept. l3th Pyracantha Berry Wreaths and, Garlands music-inspire- it i99 i Fall Flowering Grape A Ivy bushes tt he died." 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Tyrell's 1999 album, "A New Elvis fans loved it, and the Standard." The collection (available in the fall through Shubert company has had requests for Furniture Two) is about staninformation from as far away as Australia and Iceland. Furnidardsclassics, but with a twist. It's sleek, sophisticated, a ture stores weren't so sure. Interest has cooled, and about the little sassy. Just like good music. k V 99 Elvis collection. Vaughn-Bassett- 's . $-7- the white leather on the Hollywood bed from . ; (SHOWN f DeCOMTED) Nielsen i 'V 7, CORNUCvOPIAS Bainbridse A FRAMES I f 1M4 SSef r iwo a ' v nnrr iiihi m k . ar- 6. er Fall Unfinished Unfinished Wood Christmas A Rub-o- ns Wood Door Skeletons Scarecrow (shown Painted) ''""""""' (shown Painted) $499 C All Jolee's Boutique All Stamping Supplies Stickers (Excludes Stamps) V Husware Clip Art All Templates Timeless Textures 1 i izifl 6699' U r ovv-'j- vl .l i All Crochet All Receiving All Favorite Findings Blankets Buttons Threads A . 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