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Show Furniture Men Attend Chicago Style Market i I Several prominent Sugar . House furniture officials are now in Chicago attending The ! Inernational Home Furnishings ; Market, which is being conduct-' conduct-' ed from Jan. 5 to 17, inclusive. ! Granite Furniture Co. has sent three representatives to inspect the new lines being displayed at The Merchandise Mart and at other display centers. They are: Willard B. Richards, Jr., man-: man-: ager, Henry Richard, sales manager man-ager and Elmer Jensen of the drapery department. ; Ray E. Nilson, owner and ; manager of the furniture com- pany carrying his name, is including in-cluding both Chicago and Battle Bat-tle Creek, Mich., in his itinerary. From the South East Furniture Furni-ture Co. have gone both J. Gordon Gor-don and S. Calvin Sorensen to see what the new trends and styles are. They have reported report-ed that furniture prices are up 5 to 10 per cent at the markets, and that many good lines are back on quota. As a follow-up, the South East Furniture Co. has appointed S. Morgan Sorensen Sor-ensen to visit the San Francisco Furniture Show in February. Horace A. Sorensen will visit several factories before spring. Richard W. Madsen. Jr., has gone east to the furniture centers cen-ters to inspect and buy for his two. Sterling Furniture stores in Sugar House and downtown Salt Lake. Being a. furniture center in its own right, Sugar House has followed fol-lowed trpnrla in hmnp fnrnish- ings very closely. Its represn-tatives represn-tatives now in Chicago say that there is "terrific activity" in summer furniture. They say that steel seems short again and that cost of other materials, as well as labor costs, have gone up. Modern furniture is drawing draw-ing a lot of attention. In upholstered up-holstered furniture, the interest in sectional pieces in running ing high. |
