ABC Carpet
NY
RetailArchitect
Griffith Thomas
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ABC Carpet & Home Co. Inc.’s eight-story building in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, with nearly eight acres of selling space, is the largest rug and carpet store in the world, attracting about a million visitors each year. The company’s array of products include not only carpets and rugs but also antiques, furniture, textiles, gifts and accessories, and bed and bath items. ABC Carpet & Home traces its beginning to 1897, when Sam Weinrib, an Austrian immigrant, loaded a cart with used carpeting and linoleum and pushed it through Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
ABC Carpet & Home Co. Inc.’s eight-story building in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, with nearly eight acres of selling space, is the largest rug and carpet store in the world, attracting about a million visitors each year. The company’s array of products include not only carpets and rugs but also antiques, furniture, textiles, gifts and accessories, and bed and bath items. ABC Carpet & Home traces its beginning to 1897, when Sam Weinrib, an Austrian immigrant, loaded a cart with used carpeting and linoleum and pushed it through Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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