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Showroom

A showroom is a large space used to display products for sale, such as automobiles, furniture, appliances, carpet or apparel.


1920 Hammond Pros season

At that meeting, held at Bulldogs owner Ralph Hay's Hupmobile showroom in Canton, representatives of the Rock Island Independents, the Muncie Flyers, the Decatur Staleys, the Racine Cardinals, the Massillon Tigers, the Chicago Cardinals, and the Hammond Pros agreed to join the league.

Antonio Morelli

The greatest names in the entertainment industry graced the Copa Room Stage (the showroom at the Sands, named after the famed Copacabana Club in New York City) including Judy Garland, Lena Horne, (she was billed at the Sands as "The Satin Doll") Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, along with "The Copa Girls".

Arumbakkam

Notable landmarks in Arumbakkam are D G Vaishnav College, Speed Medical Centre & Hospitals, Daniel Thomas School, Kola Perumal School, Sri Panchali Amman Temple, Siva Temple and the Ford Showroom.

Best Products

In 1982, Best acquired catalog competitors: Basco, a chain with 19 catalog showrooms in the Northeast and Ohio; and Modern Merchandising, headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota with 76 showroom under the names LaBelle's, Dolgin's, Jafco, Miller Sales, Rogers and Great Western.

Better Bathrooms

Warrington - The Warrington showroom was the second Better Bathrooms showroom to be opened and is located on Wilderspool Causeway in Stockton Heath.

Bill Heard Enterprises

Bill Heard Enterprises began in 1919 as the William T. Heard Motor Company, where Bill Heard Sr. sold LaSalle, Essex and Hudson cars from a showroom in downtown Columbus.

Brook furniture rental

In 2006, Brook Furniture Rental added a new distribution center and showroom in Lanham, Maryland.

Carlo Barbera

Carlo Barbera is a family-owned high-end textile manufacturer and clothing designer in Callabiana Italy, about 50 miles west of Milan where there is a Luciano Barbera showroom.

Carole Kai

In the late 1990s, following the national success of shows featuring two or more "divas," she joined three other local singers with showroom experience -- Loyal Garner, Melveen Leed, and Nohelani "Baby Diva" Cypriano -- to form a new show group named The Local Divas.

Corwen railway station

The main station building and site survives mainly intact today, in private use as an Ifor Williams Trailers showroom since 1990.

Costume National

During Milan Design Week of 2009 the Dutch designer Maarten Baas presented his show-event entitled “Real Time” in the C’N’C Costume National showroom.

De Havilland Iris

It is reported that the engine was then displayed in the showroom of the de Havilland Engine Company at Leavesden.

Factory Showroom

All of these tracks were rejects from the Factory Showroom sessions, and were either released on the S-E-X-X-Y EP or the 2002 compilation They Got Lost.

Farra Design Center

From the side road on the Mkalles (Beirut) highway, the store gives the impression of being a small boutique while it is actually a large retail store with 7 levels of showroom.

In 2004, the company constructed a 7 floors showroom and moved its flagship store to Mkalles (Beirut).

Giorgio Borruso

Borruso first came to worldwide attention in 2001 with Miss Sixty showroom in South Coast Plaza.

Glazed architectural terra-cotta

One of the leading commercial architects of the time in the city, Norris was strongly influenced by trends in American architecture and used faience on projects such as the Nicholas Building and the Kellow Falkiner Showrooms (a 1928 car showroom) in South Yarra.

Global RallyCross Championship

Early competitors included 1968 Rally Monte Carlo winner Vic Elford in a showroom Porsche 911, Brian Melia in his Ford Lotus Cortina and Tony Fall in a BMC Mini Cooper S.

Great Marlborough Street

No.10 - De Dion-Bouton showroom, the largest automobile manufacturer in the world in the 1900s

Imagine Homes

In 2008, Imagine Homes planned to open the UK’s first buy-to-let showroom on the Hogarth Roundabout, Chiswick, London.

Jim Downing

Sponsored by the Mazda factory for his entire IMSA career, Jim progressed up the competition ladder from the near showroom stock Radial Sedan series Mazda RX-2 & Mazda RX3, to GTU Mazda RX3 & Mazda RX7 and GTO in the Mazda RX7, then up to the ultra-quick purpose-built GTP category prototypes, all powered by two, three, and four rotor versions of the Mazda Wankel engine.

John Ascuaga's Nugget Casino Resort

The Celebrity Showroom, first known as the Circus Room, was constructed in the 1960s and played host to big name entertainment like Liberace, Sergio Franchi, The Osmond Brothers, Robert Goulet, and more.

Lemington Glass Works

A door has been inserted on the northwest side because the cone is now used as a showroom by car manufacturer Land Rover and Stanegate Stoves and Cookers.

Leroy Grumman

On 2 January 1930, the company took possession of an abandoned auto showroom garage in Baldwin, New York that had once been the Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. factory.

Meadowhead School

The site where the "North Building" once stood – alongside Bochum Parkway – became a Gilders Volkswagen and Audi showroom and the area where the "South Building" was – further along Dyche Lane – became the new school's playing fields.

Museum of Lebanese Prehistory

The single showroom exhibition gave a dissection of the scene showing sites such as Tripoli, Jbeil, Tabarja, the bay of Jounieh, Antelias and memorable caves, Ras Beirut and Naam.

Myron Cohen

During the 1950s, when there were numerous nightclub showroom venues throughout the nation, he was one of the top headliners, along with others, such as Sophie Tucker, Ted Lewis, Adam Lebensfeld, Jimmy Durante, and Joe E. Lewis, among others.

Napięcie Theatre

The Napięcie Theatre work mainly with their own texts (“Salon Lenistwa”/”Showroom of Indolence” or “Lewa Strona, Prawa Strona”/”Left Side, Right Side”) but they also work with other author’s pieces (“Przewodnik dla bezdomnych”/”A Short Guide for Homeless People” is based on Arthur Rimbaud's and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's works; their other plays are inspired by Plato and Andrzej Sosnowski).

Natuzzi

In 1998, further confirmation of the Group’s strong ties with the American market was given by the inauguration in High Point (North Carolina) of a futuristic-looking building, designed by the architect Mario Bellini, housing the offices of Natuzzi Americas, with a huge showroom measuring 8,000 square metres.

Oxymorrons

The project had two successful release events; one held at the Roc A Wear showroom in Manhattan hosted by Sway Calloway of MTV and the other in Los Angeles hosted by DJ Skee.

Piccadilly Arcade

Also there was a showroom for Waterford Crystal and Wedgwood chinaware; now occupied by Kent & Curwen (Gentleman's Club Sports wear).

Pothys

In 1977, his son K V.P.Sadayandi Moopanar was able to establish the name and expand the outfit with a self-styled retail showroom at Srivilliputhur, re-christened 'POTHYS' .

Ramagondanahalli

There are many celebrations held in this town i.e. Karaga that is held in the month of march on a full moon day.There are many shops in this town such as dominos, goli, honda showroom, bajaj showroom etc.

Sam Scorer

On Lincoln's Brayford Pool a building, currently housing a Nando's, Prezzo and Handmade Burger Co. restaurants, that he designed in 1959 was originally a car showroom for the Lincolnshire Motor Company and then the music library for Lincolnshire County Council.

The Laden Showroom

Celebrities who have worn clothes from designers at The Laden Showroom include: Pixie Lott, Sarah Brown (wife of Gordon Brown), The Saturdays, Dawn Porter, Victoria Beckham, Sienna Miller, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Gail Porter, Helen McCrory, Liza Tarbuck, Pete Doherty, Jarvis Cocker, Noel Gallagher, Gisele Bündchen, Gok Wan, Romeo Gigli, Liz McClarnon and Dannii Minogue.

Time Out Magazine describes the shop as "a font of experimental design" while the London Evening Standard calls it a "cult store." EasyJet describes the store as "a veritable magnet for keen-eyed fashionistas" in its inflight magazine, recommending The Laden Showroom to London visitors.

The Pace Collection

Holl received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) award for best architectural design in New York in 1986 for the new Pace Collection showroom.

This showroom, which opened in 1986, was located on the corner of Madison Avenue and East 72nd Street.

The Wolseley

The six storey building, commissioned by Wolseley Motors Limited who bought the site in 1919 for a car showroom and London sales offices, was designed by William Curtis Green, his inspiration was drawn from a recently constructed bank building that he had seen in Boston.

Tricia Guild

Tricia Guild OBE is a British designer and the founder and Creative Director of Designers Guild an international home and lifestyle company with a flagship store and showroom on the Kings Road and Marylebone High Street in London, and offices in London, Paris and Munich.


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