Photo: Alys Tomlinson/Shutterstock You have to hope that ABC Carpet & Home, which declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week at the age of 124, can get through the process without ceasing to be itself. Historically, that has been difficult for retailers that depend on being unique, over-the-top, and dependent on a founder or operator’s eccentric energy.
Well, what it all is — or was, if the worst comes to pass — is the performance of great retailing. The store’s signature is its luxury-goods-from-every-corner-of-the-world selection, and it’s arrayed in so many layers upon layers that your overwhelmed gaze never quite knows where to touch down. Kilims underlay altars from Thailand alongside opalescent glass and incense burners and mid-century Czech light fixtures and tables extracted from ancient French farmhouses and on and on and on.
It’s a commonplace to say that ABC is really expensive, and that you shop there but rarely buy. In truth, the assortment of absurdly priced coasters and similar baubles is somewhat of a mirage, because once you get upstairs to the somewhat more conventionally displayed furniture or linens, there is actually quite a lot of medium-affordable stuff. My own sofa came from there, and it cost about the same as it might have at a mass-market retailer like Crate & Barrel.
heybonanos Sad - one of my favourite must visit stores in NYC. Let’s hope they get through this process.
heybonanos Oh no
heybonanos Yes, fingers crossed indeed!
heybonanos Oh no!!
heybonanos Always go to this fabulous store when I visit NYC….
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