The Company, page 2

demand in the interior design trade in the Western United States. This flourishing business came to an end tragically when our great-grandmother died in 1955.
    Our grandparents started to visit Europe on annual buying trips sometime thereafter, and on one of these trips our grandmother became fascinated with the Northern Italian painted furniture common to the Veneto region of Italy; Verona, Vicenza, Padua and Venice. Dealers from the United States had long overlooked these seventeenth and