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A Pottery Barn store (left) in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

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.

Pottery Barn, a member of the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. portfolio of brands and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a consumer retail company that sells contemporary home furnishings including furniture, bedding, bathroom accessories, rugs, window treatments, tableware, decorative items and lighting. The brand currently operates 200 retail stores in the United States and Canada, 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.

1 Brand Concept Stores
2 Appearances in popular culture
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Brand Concept Stores

[edit] Pottery Barn Kids

Pottery Barn Kids brings quality, style, and value to kids’ spaces throughout the home. At the heart of Pottery Barn Kids is the focus on design, quality, safety, and service- along with real functionality. With an emphasis on quality, style, and value, Pottery Barn Kids is dedicated to its evolving commitment to eco-friendly furnishings and fabrics. Environmental initiatives are taking root at all levels. Catalogs are printed on FSC-certified paper, select outdoor collections are made of 100% sustainable materials, several apparel lines are pure organic fiber and select bedding is at least 5% organic cotton fiber. Additionally, select bedding, towels, and baby clothing have been approved by Oeko-Tex, the world’s definitive ecological certification process. Top priority is a commitment to finding new ways to build quality furniture with sustainable manufacturing and business practices, and continuing to make strides toward a more ecologically responsible future.

[edit] PBteen

PBteen, a member of the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. portfolio of brands, launched in April 2003 and is the first home retailer to focus exclusively on the teenage market. PBteen is the nation’s leading resource for furnishings and décor specifically designed with teens in mind. Creating a balance between the teenager’s need for self-expression and a parent’s desire for furnishings that complement the rest of the home, PBteen offers bedroom, lounge, and study furniture, window treatments, rugs, lighting, bedding, and decorative accessories. Designed to fully furnish bedrooms, studies, and lounge spaces for teens from junior high to college, PBteen provides fresh, hip options to appeal to teenagers’ varying tastes. All PBteen products are exclusive to its catalogs and ecommerce site, www.pbteen.com, which launched in September 2003. The site also features Style House, a special section full of product demos, free downloads, win-it contests, Q & A, and decorating tips. PBteen is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

[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

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).

The idea of doing "for furniture what Laura Ashley did for fabrics" by Wall Street character Darien Taylor (Daryl Hannah) seemed foreshadow Pottery Barn's modus operandi and rise to prominence in the U.S.

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"