La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries® Store Opens In Hilton Head, South Carolina

Furniture World Magazine

La-Z-Boy, a leading manufacturer of upholstered furniture, recently celebrated the grand opening of a new La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries® store in Hilton Head, S.C., located at 1569 Fording Island Road. The new 15,500-square-foot store is devoted exclusively to La-Z-Boy furnishings, allowing customers to select from the full line of La-Z-Boy furniture for the living room and family room. The Hilton Head store offers the company’s world famous recliners, motion sofas, sleep sofas, modular furniture and leather upholstery, as well as stationary sofas and chairs from the American Home Collection by La-Z-Boy®. One of the store’s highlights is the Thomas Kinkade Home Furnishings Collection™ by La-Z-Boy®, which includes sofas and chairs inspired by the artwork of Thomas Kinkade, the world-renowned "Painter of Light™." Also available are occasional furniture pieces by La-Z-Boy subsidiary Hammary®. "There are galleries showcasing family room and living room furnishings, as well as leather selections and sleepers in styles and fabrics that may surprise consumers who still think of La-Z-Boy as primarily a recliner manufacturer," said Paul Childers, who owns the new store with Dwight Sweat. "However, recliners are by no means forgotten. We have nearly 200 styles on display in our new store. La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries stores are made up of multiple galleries, each representing its own category of La-Z-Boy furniture. The new Hilton Head store features fully accessorized room vignettes in four major galleries, including: a Living Room Gallery, with stationary sofas, loveseats and chairs in every style category from traditional to contemporary; a Family Room Gallery, showcasing motion sofas and loveseats, sofa beds and reclining chairs; a Leather Gallery, presenting an impressive array of leather finishes, textures, styles and colors available from La-Z-Boy; and a Recliner Gallery that displays the full range of world famous La-Z-Boy reclining chairs. The new La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries store also features two complete design centers, including the La-Z-Boy Screen Test® video catalog system that allows customers the opportunity to view any La-Z-Boy product in their choice of fabrics before they buy. In addition, each of the store’s sales associates is a graduate of the La-Z-Boy Design Institute, a course that stresses the fundamentals of coordinating fabrics and styles. "We are very excited about the opening of our latest La-Z-Boy store," Kurt L. Darrow, president of the La-Z-Boy. "The new Hilton Head location expands and strengthens our presence on the East Coast, and moves us closer to our goal of bringing La-Z-Boy products to the widest possible consumer base." Headquartered in Monroe, Mich., La-Z-Boy is the nation’s largest single manufacturer of upholstered furniture and the world’s leading producer of reclining chairs. It is a division of La-Z-Boy Incorporated (NYSE, PCX: LZB), the nation’s largest furniture manufacturer.