Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-05
FURNITURE FIRM
IS MAKING HOME
LOS ANGELES COMPANY IS
READY TO MOVE
JUNE 1917 OPENING DAYS
sIx-story Building on South Spring
Street Complete and Employees
Are Busy With Interior
Preparations
JUNE 1917 OPENING DAYS

Given the bare walls and the floors OF
six-story building, the Los Angeles
Furniture company, with its own littla
army of workmen, is making it's new
home at 635-6S7 South Spring street
ready for occupancy.
Twenty years ago II patron had
ordered a chair upholstered 1t would
have been sent out to one who made
that his business; there would have
been mild surprise if a customer had
asked for a wood carver and an order
for "fumed oak would have created
CONSERVATION.
Today, with its own upholsterers.
diapers. wood carvers and furniture
makers, designing and making what It
requires, in its own shops, the company
quarters of any furniture house west of
New York city.
AS yet much of the big building is
still in the rough, but the plans have
been far enough materialized to give
some idea of the richness of the furnish
ings which will be fully installed by
June Is, the first of the three opening
days.
On the second floor the highest art of
the decorator is being employed to
make one large parlor, 50x125 feet To
accomplish this $4,000 is being ex-
pended in carvings, tapestries, paint
ings and woodwork, exclusive of the
furniture which is later to be added.
This room is to be set apart for the
sale of draperies, but is to have little
similarity to the salesroom. All goods
are stored in mahogany cabinets, form
ing a part of the walls and bounding
the central columns. The room is to
be carpeted with royal red Wilton and
the decorations are to be in green and
old ivory. All the holdings and
frames for mirrors, paintings and
tapestries are hand-carved.
Louis XVI Room
Flanked by doorways of the colonial
pattern, entrance is made into a Louis
XVI room through a wide doorway,
fashioned in accordance with the same
period.
The entire furnishings of this room
are to be in fumed oak, the process Of
manufacture of which is known only
to the employees of the Los Angeles
Furniture company. Tapestries are to
grace the walls, one of particular
beauty and value being hand-painted
by Cavelle-"Royalty in the Studio Of
Wateau''
Then there is the model directors
room, the model dining room, a library
and a sitting room, each and every one
elegantly and appropriately furnished.
In these rooms, as in the one set aside
for the showing of draperies, all the
permanent work is being done by hani.
With its six floors, not including a
gallery, basement and an attic, the
company is TO have double the floor
space it has had in the past.
The ground floor will be taken up by
a showing of partial lines of clocks,
dining room, office and library furni-
ture. The gallery Eill be devoted to a
showing Of pedestals, writing cabinets
and smaller and more delicate articles
The second floor, as a parlor, is given
up largely to the showing of draperies,
the third floor entirely to parlor furni-
ture, the fourth floor to bedroom suites,
the fifth floor to the furnishings of
directors rooms, libraries and offices, |
and the sixth floor is given exclusively
to carpets and fine rugs. In the base
ment is to be placed lawn furniture
and the sundries of the furniture bust
ness.
The original quarters Of the firm were
on North Main street, opposite the old
Baker block. The firm is the successor
of Dottor e Bradley, who retired from
the business August l, 1884. H. H. |
Markham, first president of the COM
pany. entered politics and was elected
to congress, later becoming governor
of the sta te.
The firm moved to 225-229 South |
Broadway, where its quarters again be-
came too small for its rapid growth, !
and building TO be devoted entirely
TO it's use was planned and erected on
South Spring street.