30% Off Weekend/Come One, Come All.

Bassett King of Prussia is having a Treat Yourself Weekend, this weekend. October 27, 2023 - October 30, 2023 All furniture, with the exception of our "Every Day Value" Items will be on sale for 30% Off of Retail pricing. We will also have 12 Month Interest Free Financing for orders over $1200.00 ( before delivery fees and sales tax .) Bring in measurements and inspiration pics, or paint color, etc and let's design and save together. Jim Clarey JPClarey@BassettFurniture.Com 610-337-1249

Irony and Interior Design.

On this day in 1953, Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel "Farenheit 451" was published. If you take a thin piece of paper and attempt to burn it, it will start to smoulder and then flame at 451 degrees. Ironically, this novel is on a hit list of books that have currently been banned in some places. Another aspect of irony is that, when books are banned, it usually "ignites" peoples interest in reading something that they perhaps never would have read prior to being told that they couldn't. (irony...a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.) Now, let's play irony in Interior design. Many think that if you have a big space you need to cover every square inch. Or in the reverse, a smaller space needs few items. But it's really fine to design a large space in a sparse manner, and crowd a smaller footprint to create a coze sense of excitement. Isn't that ironic? How about keeping the dusty rose velvet sofa that Aunt Twila left you? Then have us make you some hot pink toss pillows and a hot pink throw to create a sense of color irony on a piece that virtually everyone would either slipcover, or use tan on. You get the idea. So, in short, stop in with measurements, Pinterest images or your own ideas and let's make irony a reality. Jim Clarey JPClarey@Bassettfurniture.com 610-337-1249

Bassett, Queens and Sensibility.

Thanksgiving has been an official holiday since the days of George Washington, who, in 1789, issued the first proclamation of Thanksgiving to honor the new national constitution. During the early 19th century, numerous states began to observe Thanksgiving on their own, setting different dates state by state. In the 1860s, Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, mounted a vigorous campaign for a national Thanksgiving Day to be on the same date each year, coast to coast. ( Leave it to a woman for sense and sensibilities.) This gained presidential attention, and subsequently, on October 3 of 1863, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a National Day of Thanksgiving. We celebrated the official holiday together as a nation on November 26, 1863. For the next seventy years, each U.S. President issued his own proclamation confirming the date. Then, in 1939, finally Franklin D. Roosevelt re-set the day as November’s third Thursday. And then in 1941, a resolution was made to change it to the fourth Thursday of November. It has remained that day ever since. Interestingly, Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was an American women's magazine that was published right here in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1878. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War. The numbers were impressive as its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860. In the 1860s Godey's considered itself the "queen of monthlies". Perhaps a bit less interesting but still of importance, it you plan on re decorating your Dining Room in time for Thanksgiving, 2023, and assuming that the date won't change you have one week to visit us and place your order. Jim Clarey JPClarey@BassettFurniture.Com 610-337-1249.