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Join Martin Roberts at High Point Market for “Smart Retailers Think Differently”
If you’re a retail executive with P&L responsibilities this is the one seminar you can’t afford to miss. It’s time to think differently about how design impacts strategy, assortment planning, and making the most of your valuable assets. Learn more about recent expansions and those in the pipeline. Hear how to take advantage of distressed
Mattress First Case Study Shows How to Double Your Percentage of Sales
Mattress First just released its case study of how one family-owned midwest furniture store doubled their percentage of sales in mattresses. Kloss Furniture hired Martin Roberts Design to help them remodel their existing store environment, including their mattress area. The case study highlights how the new design helped boost their mattress sales to double. Kloss
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.
Martin Roberts Puts the Emphasis on Design at Interiors Furniture and Design
New Strategy Focuses on Higher‐End Consumers’ Desire for Individualized Experience CAMP HILL, PA – When retail design specialist Martin Roberts was approached about creating a new Interiors location here, he decided the last thing his client needed was another furniture store. Rather, he relates, the emphasis here needed to be on interior design services. Published
Palliser Furniture Introduces High Impact Motion Furniture Signage
Retail design veteran Martin Roberts reported that he recently worked with Palliser Furniture to create an environment to set apart the manufacturer’s luxury brand—Pinnacle Seating Studio—both within the showroom and on retail floors. The challenge: To design the elements that would create a special environment at retail to properly showcase the luxury brand and set
Palliser Furniture, Martin Roberts Create Footprint for Pinnacle
Canada’s Palliser Furniture commissioned Martin Roberts Design to create an environment for luxury brand Pinnacle Seating Studio in the company’s showroom and for retail floors. Palliser encouraged Roberts to create a layout that would showcase the brand and make it stand out from other parts of a retail showroom while informing customers that Pinnacle offers
Martin Roberts Design Gets Revamped Company Website
Retail design veteran Martin Roberts reported that he took a brief break from store design projects recently to revamp his own company’s website: http://www.mrobertsdesign.com “No matter how busy you are, you have to project to your customers that you are in business to do business, and that you are a business they want to do
Belfort Furniture to Expand, Renovate Showroom
New features will include wine bar, cafe. Belfort Furniture here is about to get a new look, additional showroom space and some added features that the company hopes will inspire shoppers. The midpriced to high-end retailer hired Martin Roberts Design to redesign the retail campus in a move that will bring additional retail space via
Furniture Mall of Kansas Set to Open This Summer
OLATHE, Kan. — Furniture Mall of Kansas, set to open here in late May or early June, has released a few renderings, photos and other details on what’s to come in the design effort led by Martin Roberts Design. According to Roberts, sprawling pathways will guide shoppers through a natural progression of home furnishings in