The Furnish Green showroom will be CLOSED for Memorial Day weekend (Saturday, May 28th through Monday, May 30th) so we are having a big online sale! Everything will be an additional 22% off. Use coupon code: longweekend at checkout. Online only. 3 days only.
Shop our current inventory.
Furnish Green continues in its pursuit to expand our already-considerable music section. Sometimes there may be an album cover or artist name that piques your interest but you have no idea what direction the music will turn.
Now the casual browser (he or she who doth browse) has ample opportunity to experience and engage with the records in our bins via our established listening station!
We hope you can discover a new artist/genre/hobby in the comfort of our showroom!
Happy collecting!
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We will be closing our Greenpoint, BK pop-up shop on Wednesday, May 25th so to clear out inventory there, we’re offering 30% off everything at that location! The shop will be closing up at 7pm on Wednesday.
Shop some of the selection here. Please note: There are more items at the shop that are not on our site.
We enjoyed our stay in Brooklyn, and we appreciate your support throughout.
Location: 165 Greenpoint Ave., Greenpoint, BK 11222
Store hours this week: Tues & Wed 1-7pm
Product Spotlight: Tall Rustic Painted Farm Table
Just a few inches of extra height make this charming rustic table extra versatile! Pair it with some counter-height stools, and it becomes the perfect kitchen table or work space.
Featured Products:
Tall Rustic Painted Farm Table // Rustic Oak Stool // Rustic Painted Farm Stool // Petite Sanyo Boombox
In 1941, Brown-Saltman’s first pieces were based on [Paul] Frankl’s designs, with a few minor adjustments making them adaptable to mass production (onekingslane.com).
So we had this very interesting coffee table in our showroom recently, and we just received a pair of beautiful mid century end tables that all happen to be connected to some noteworthy names in furniture design. Since our inventory is not heavy on high-end designer pieces, I usually like to do a bit of digging around to better understand the higher price-point attached to these sorts of items.
Brown-Saltman was a collaboration between Dave Saltman and Paul Frankl, a leader in American Art Deco design. Frankl created the “Skyscraper” furniture that was made to resemble the increasingly Art Deco skyline of New York City. Although Frankl had some valued big-Hollywood customers, by the 1930s he became interested in the opportunity to distribute his designs to the masses.
The Brown-Saltman partnership began in 1941 and was instantly successful. Certain more expensive features were eliminated in order to attain the lower price point. Most often, the pieces were constructed using soft woods or Weldtex, a combed wood, plywood laminate invented by Donald Deskey. With original Frankl designs now geared toward mass production, there was no slowing them down.
Or so it seemed… In 1942, only the day after signing an extended contract with Frankl, Saltman died in a car accident. The original momentum diminished, and although Frankl continued with the business for a bit longer, it did not last. Although short-lived, the collaboration left behind some innovative and lasting designs.
We’re particularly loving these end tables.
Our latest Dwellings installment highlights a fascinating new local business that offers a cool concept within an amazing space. We sat down with proprietor Andrew Karp to get a better sense of the goings on at Interface.
Interface, located at 140 West 30th Street, opened in 2015 and began as a membership-based lounge space, but as they grew the owners realized that there was a demand for events spaces. So it morphed into what Karp describes as “a sort of events club.” In addition to being available as an events space, Interface acts as a flexible extension of its partner restaurant Till & Sprocket. It manages to be professional but casual at the same time. Interface now hosts all types of events; everything from a meditation series to musical events and film screenings.
Karp explains that Interface is constantly evolving and has a very open structure which is complimented by the space it inhabits. The primary feature of the space is a striking and spacious open room defined by exposed brick, a floor-to-ceiling chalkboard wall and large skylights that allow for some lovely and relaxing natural light.
Everything that went into furnishing the space (from light installations to custom-built work tables) was sourced locally within the neighborhood of Midtown West. So being just a block away, Furnish Green was the perfect place to find some funky pieces that would help offset the industrial nature of the space. Their choices brought warmth and coziness to the large, open main room.
Because of the diversity of Interface and the notion that it is defined by the myriad of uses taking place inside, the space needed to be able to accommodate the dynamic nature of the day-to-day operations. This was achieved by acquiring furniture that could be easily moved around and rearranged. They purchased large rustic shipping crates that are multifunctional and portable. These are spread throughout the space and have been deployed as coffee tables and shelving units and have even been used as lecture podiums.
From FG, they acquired 6 upholstered club chairs that once served as seating on a yacht. They’re bright and punchy (and really comfortable) bringing a bit of fun and quirkiness to the space. Andrew’s favorite FG piece happens to be club chair with the beach-themed upholstery. Personally, we love the big Al Pacino portrait that resides in the restroom, but to each his own.
The layout of the room changes daily, keeping it lively, fresh and interesting for their guests. Just like we do at FG, Interface gets the opportunity to see how their patrons react to moving things around, changing up the layout and altering the energy of the space. Interface is worth checking out; a unique concept housed in an adeptly conceived space.
We hope you enjoyed this installment of our Dwellings series! Stay tuned for future posts, and email us at furnishgreen@gmail.com for a chance to have your space featured!
It’s getting warmer, daylight savings time is upon us, and it’s time for one of our big up-to-60%-off sticker sales!
On Saturday, March 19th EVERYTHING in our showroom will be on sale and discounts will range from 12% to 60%!! The sale is in-store ONLY so come on by.
And although we often run promotions, our sticker sales offer the most significant discounts of the year, so don’t miss out!
**Please Note: The sale will last from 10am to 6pm (showroom hours). If you plan to take furniture (anything that can’t fit in a shopping bag) out with you, it will have to be done before 2pm as our freight elevator closes early.
Every piece that comes into Furnish Green settles into our workroom first. The entire staff huddles around it, deliberates about it’s quality and condition, and decides whether or not it needs additional work and attention. Then we collectively try to figure out a price. It usually goes something like this:
“$392”
“I was thinking low 4’s”
“We had one like that not too long ago in the low 4’s. It was here for a while”
“How about $384?”
“Wow, I was thinking that too.”
“Did you know I was born in 84?”
“I graduated high school in 84!”
“$384 it is.”
Now that was an example of a time when we got the price right. Here is an example of when we got the price wrong:
“Oh my god, I love that piece!”
“It’s supersexy, they are very hard to find.”
“I just checked it out on the 1st Dibs website, someone is asking $3500 for it.”
“$968 seems reasonable.”
“We may not get another one, we should probably ask $1184.”
“I was born in 84!”
“Wow I graduated high school in 84!”
“It is nice, maybe $1232?”
“Ok.”
“Sounds good.”
Now even though the final price sounded reasonable to us, especially compared to what other retailers were asking for it, that piece still sat in our showroom for longer than we would have liked. Here is the next conversation:
“There has to be a reason why this piece is still here.”
“Wow look at the price on that, $1232! No wonder why it’s still here!”
“Were we on crack when we priced it?”
“Let’s mark this down to $844 during our Monday Markdowns this week.”
“Good idea.”
So always keep an eye out for our Monday Markdowns because we are constantly revisiting our prices to see if a piece was originally made too expensive. On average, we lower 5-7 pieces every Monday, and they are not necessarily items that have been in our showroom for a long time. Our mission is to get cool vintage furniture into as many home as possible as quickly as possible, so check our site often (the Sale section in particular) to see if that credenza you had your eye on has a lower price! – Nathan
For the latest installment of our Dwellings series, we head to MaLa Project NYC, a new restaurant in the East Village (122 1st Ave. to be exact) that is serving up some very tasty Chinese cuisine. Although a restaurant is not a dwelling per se, there’s certainly a benefit to making your patrons feel at home. And Amelie has done just that. For the task of decorating the MaLa space, she knew that she wanted to utilize mostly vintage pieces but did not have the time to go digging around a warehouse for that diamond in the rough… And that’s where Furnish Green comes into the picture.
Amelie found us just in time for our annual Small Business Saturday Sale and snatched up a bunch of great items for her own small business. And while we appreciate the support shown to us by all of our customers during this particular sale, we’re very happy to have been able to help out a fellow small business and give Amelie the opportunity to make some of her restaurant design goals a reality.
In constructing MaLa’s interior aesthetic, she has taken a raw industrial space and transitioned it into a warm and inviting atmosphere that’s ideal for social dining. Amelie’s selection of alluringly eye-catching accent pieces feels very much at home against the rustic feel of the exposed brick walls. The space is open, clean and somewhat minimalist while managing to feel cozy and quaint at the same time.
FG Pieces: She utilized one of our long narrow farm tables for communal dining and large parties. And a vintage dry sink became the perfect waiter station. A set of vintage china is the flatware at the bar, and a retro rattan tray has been used for spice display.
In her design of the space, Amelie has successfully wed stark urban industrialism with charmingly inviting details. The starkness of some industrial elements like the shiny metal ceiling is nicely contrasted by the warmth of the brick walls and the abundance of green leafy plants. MaLa Project features some distinctive and arresting design that includes some choice Furnish Green pieces as well as an intriguing menu.
We hope you enjoyed this installment of our Dwellings series! Stay tuned for future posts, and email us at furnishgreen@gmail.com for a chance to have your space featured!
We just received a new batch of records that have been cleaned, priced and are now sitting in our bins, available for purchase! I emphasize “cleaned” in this case because they were not in the best shape when they arrived. I see this sort of thing, and a little piece of my heart dies because of the high quality of the labels and artists in this particular stack. I wonder how someone could have just left Miles Davis and Nina Simone to a life of squalor in a basement filled with muck, grime and space dust.
I continue to die inside and not because the titles in this chunk could sell for a pretty penny if they were properly looked after over the years. Making a quick buck on records doesn’t really concern me when selling at Furnish Green. I want customers to enjoy our records at an affordable price. I try to curate the collection with a bit of everything (heavy hitters, collection fillers, unknown gems, $1 records), despite the fact that our main focus is furniture.
In this bunch, the condition of the covers/media may not be collector-worthy, but if you’ve ever been curious about diving into jazz/soul, this would be a great start! Although there will be some surface noise on most of these, it does not overpower the beauty in the grooves. Records have to take a pretty bad beating to become nonfunctional, and that hasn’t happened just yet.
Some classic labels we have in this round:
Blue Note
Stax
Mo Town
Decca
Impulse
Atlantic
Colpix
Philadelphia International
And now a handful of the featured artists:
Ray Charles
Charles Mingus
Miles Davis
Nina Simone
Herbie Hancock
Dianna Ross
Billie Holiday
Theolonious Monk
Fun Fact: After his contract with Atlantic ran out, Ray Charles released Genius + Soul = Jazz on Impulse. The record became an instant hit, and it helped launch Impulse into what it is today, a showcase of some of the finest jazz musicians!
– Tim
