Pottery Barn
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Pottery Barn is an American-based chain of home furnishing stores with stores in the United States and Canada. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
The company, headquartered in San Francisco, California, currently operates 200 retail stores in the United States and Canada under its main brand, as well as an ecommerce site at www.potterybarn.com. Pottery Barn also operates several brand-concept specialty retailers under the Pottery Barn Bed + Bath, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen and Threads.
In 2008 the company opened a store at Plaza Las Americas in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, a district of the capital San Juan. Plaza Las Americas is the first American-style shopping mall in Puerto Rico, as well as the largest such retail center in the Caribbean and one of the largest in the southeastern United States.
The Pottery Barn was founded by Paul Secon.
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[edit] Pottery Barn Kids
Pottery Barn Kids focuses on children's furniture as well as bedding, towels, young children's toys, and baby clothing. Pottery Barn Kids has an Oeko-tex certified range of bedding. This certification testifies to the human ecological safety of a certified product, all certified products are tested for the presence of over 100 different chemicals and stringent limit levels are applied to them.
[edit] PBteen
PBteen is the first home retailer to focus exclusively on the teenage market. Their signature print is "dottie" which consists of a color (pink, green, orange, etc.) covered in whited dots. Most of PBTeen's customers are a "younger" set of teens, typically children in the 10-15 age range.
[edit] Pottery Barn Bed + Bath
Pottery Barn Bed + Bath targets women with a catalog-only concept, selling linens and bathroom accessories.
[edit] Appearances in popular culture
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After Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel Green in the American television sitcom Friends bought furniture from Pottery Barn in the episode The One with the Apothecary Table (first broadcast on January 6, 2000[1]), many viewers also sought the store's products. The episode is often derided as an infomercial for Pottery Barn, as it centers around their furniture (see also product placement). Rachel Green also mentions it in the episode The One Where Rachel Tells.
In The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Sceptic" when the angel is found to be an advertising gimmick for the new shopping mall, the entire neighbourhood visits the mall anyway. When Chief Wiggum sees it, the first thing he says is "Hey, it's even got a Pottery Barn"
The Seinfeld episode "The Junk Mail" has Kramer receiving multiple Pottery Barn catalogues, and he takes revenge by throwing them back into the store.
In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Euclid Alternative" (02x05), Sheldon Cooper bought some Star Wars sheets with "staring Darth Vader"... in Pottery Barn.
In the "Pilot" episode of Glee it is revealed that Will's wife Terri (who works at "Sheets N Things") is a member of the Pottery Barn and bought mahogany toilet brushes. Will tells Terri that they can't waste their money on things they don't need and the two get into an argument. Terri says that she may get a promotion around Christmas and they will be able to afford the items and then tells Will that she does not want him to lead the glee club
In Family Guy, Peter complains about how he wishes his boss would treat him with respect like they do in Pottery Barn, to which Brian replies, "Hmm, I don't much care for Pottery Barn."
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- Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
- Crate and Barrel, a Pottery Barn competitor
- Pottery Barn rule, non-existent store policy spun by American politicians
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