Kids Furniture
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.
Brand concept stores
Pottery Barn Kids
Pottery Barn Kids focuses on children's furniture as well as bedding,
towels, and baby clothing.
PBteen
PBteen is the first home retailer to focus exclusively on the teenage
market.
Pottery Barn Bed + Bath
Pottery Barn Bed + Bath targets women with a catalog-only concept,
selling linens and bathroom accessories.
Appearances in popular culture
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), 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).
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.
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