US Furniture Capital Holds Annual Showcase
Two North Carolina cities produce more furniture than anywhere else in America
April 27, 2012
This is a functioning building that emphasizes High Point, North Carolina’s claim to be the “Furniture Capital” of America.
Hundreds of U.S. towns and cities call themselves the capital of something or another. Even the world capital of this or that.
Many of these titles are just for fun - a bit of promotion for the area. Tarpon Springs, Florida, for instance, calls itself the “Sponge Capital of the World.” Reedsburg, Wisconsin, believes it is the “Butter Capital of America.” Pickerington considers itself the “Violet Capital of Ohio.”
And sometimes these so-called capitals have the sales receipts to prove their boasts.
High Point, North Carolina, for instance, refers to itself as “The Furniture Capital of the United States.” And to emphasize the point, it painted a downtown building to look like a chest of drawers.
Just down the road, High Point’s sister city, Thomasville, also makes a lot of furniture. Since it calls itself “Chair City,” there’s a chair the size of a small barn sitting right in the middle of the Thomasville town square.
James Harvey's "The Chair," based on a design of an actual chair by Duncan Phyfe in "Chair City" Thomasville, North Carolina.
Together, these two small cities really do produce more furniture than any other place in America.
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