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Article: A West Elm grows in Chelsea.(News)
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- Home Textiles Today
- Article date:
- October 18, 2004
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NEW YORK -- Just two years old as a catalog and online presence and a barely a year into its shakedown cruise as a see me, feel me, touch me retailer, West Elm has opened its second store, coming home to Manhattan's young and hip Chelsea neighborhood.
This store opened Oct. 4. The third opens Saturday in Oakbrook, 111., just outside of Chicago. A fourth is scheduled to debut next month in Corte Madera, Calif., near San Francisco. And, next year, 12 no 15 stores are slated to open, including another next August in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, according to Beth Hirsch, a member of the store management team who was shortly departing for the Oakbrook opening. ...