Soon after the Union victory at Antietam in September, Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a warning to the Confederacy that if it did not lay down its arms by Jan. 1, he would declare the slaves âforever free.â.
Baxton Studio - Affordable Modern Furniture. Baxton Studio is a Chicago based division of Wholesale Inteirors, Inc. The Baxton Studio line of furniture was designed to be high quality, have the ability to with stand shipping across the United States and to have a modern feel. We stock around 600 different furniture products at a time and very rapidly change our product line to suit the current styles.
MEMPHIS was a Milan-based collective of young furniture and product designers led by the veteran Ettore Sottsass. After its 1981 debut, Memphis dominated the early 1980s design scene with its post-modernist style. Jasper Morrison remembers breaking into a kind of cold sweat and a feeling of shock and panic when he stumbled into the opening of a design exhibition at the Arc â74 showroom in Milan on 18 September 1981.