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Martin Roberts Designs Develops “Sleep Simple” Experience for America’s Mattress® Stores

America’s Mattress®, the largest independently owned and operated sleep shop network in the United States, wanted to create a customizable retail program that would maximize the customer’s in-store experience. They contacted retail design specialist Martin Roberts to help them achieve their goals. The America’s Mattress leadership team and Martin Roberts Designs (Roberts) reviewed the floor

Belfort Furniture Unifies Store Exterior with New Design

Over the years, the Belfort Furniture campus, housed in what was once a shopping mall just off the highway on route to Dulles Airport, grew organically into four unique buildings with five separate entrances. Promoted as Washington D.C.’s largest selection of home furnishings, encompassing some 100,000 square feet of selling space, the retail complex worked

China Towne Furniture Completes $600K in Renovations

Solvay, N.Y. — China Towne Furniture & Mattress is wrapping up a two-year-old renovation project this week. The project began in October 2013. It later incorporated repair work after a fire in the store’s basement in February 2014 which sent smoke throughout the building. Rita and John Yennock founded China Towne Furniture & Mattress in 1970.

Furniture Mall of Kansas – The Dreams You Dare to Dream

In 1900, Frank Baum’s whimsy discovered the Land of Oz. It was thirty-three years later that Ben and Eva Winter envisioned their own magic at Emporia, Kansas. “A furniture store, along with a gas station, a dog kennel and a restaurant called Howdy Come In,” their son, Jeff, told us. “They pretty much did whatever

Swann’s Furniture & Design – New Address, Same Refined Look

Relocating and designing a new flagship store for the iconic 117-year-old Swann’s Furniture & Design in Tyler, Texas was an exciting and far-reaching endeavor for Martin Roberts Design.

The Boys of Summer are Heading into the Home Stretch

“The Boys of Summer are Heading into the Home Stretch” article by Martin Roberts was recently posted on Patio & Hearth Blog: Imagine all that would have to change if baseball became a year-round sport across the country. For one thing, peanuts, hotdogs and Cracker Jacks wouldn’t sound particularly appealing in December in any stadium

Final Destination

Home Furnishings Business By Powell Slaughter 80-YEAR-OLD RETAILER DISCOVERY FURNITURE RE-INVENTED ITS BRAND AS FURNITURE MALL OF KANSAS. Re-invention is a tradition at the Topeka, Kan., Furniture Mall of Kansas, which opened this past Labor Day weekend. The destination concept arose from Discovery Furniture, which itself is an umbrella brand established in 2000 by Winter

A COOL IDEA – The University of Arkansas Graduation Center

Martin Roberts Design, in collaboration with Jostens and the University of Arkansas, have created a Graduation Center in the campus bookstore, which enables the students to see all aspects of the graduation process, and serves to keep them motivated and excited about what it takes to get to that special day. From necessary credits, class