The American Residence Furnishings Corridor of Fame® has obtained the trademark registration from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace for its title in reference to its expanded providers, exhibitions and academic packages.

The trademark, formally registered below Registration Quantity 7,281,437, grants unique rights to make use of its title and the authorized safety to safeguard the Corridor of Fame towards unauthorized use or infringement in each the enterprise and cultural panorama.

“As a museum and academic group, this can be a important step in establishing our rising reveals and packages as a museum operator,” says Steve Rusing, president of the Corridor of Fame Board of Administrators and govt vice chairman and president of U.S. gross sales for Tempur Sealy Worldwide. “The Corridor of Fame is greater than only a lovely area for the {industry}.  It additionally represents a myriad of packages designed to encourage and educate the general public and our {industry}.

“Acquiring a trademark for our title underscores our deep dedication to preserving the integrity of our model and to making sure that future generations proceed to learn from our sources and packages,” he says.  “We are going to open three extra everlasting reveals on the April Excessive Level Market and can dedicate the Wanek Household and Ashley Furnishings Industries gas-burning Everlasting Flame in entrance of the constructing.”

The group’s new 25,000-square-foot constructing, opened at 311 S. Hamilton St. in Excessive Level in April 2023, options a wide range of everlasting, touring and particular exhibitions associated to honoring the previous, current and way forward for the dynamic house furnishings {industry}. The Corridor of Fame Constructing offers a house for the {industry} throughout markets, instructional packages for college kids, and a singular setting for enterprise conferences and different social occasions all year long.

Based in 1988, the American Residence Furnishings Corridor of Fame Basis was created by a bunch of house furnishings executives who acknowledged the necessity to protect the heritage of the {industry} and to honor its leaders. As a world, industry-wide group, the group’s mission is four-fold: to honor its leaders, to inform the {industry}’s story, to encourage a brand new class of leaders and to have interaction the neighborhood with the world of house furnishings.

About The American Residence Furnishings Corridor of Fame Basis, Inc.

The American Residence Furnishings Corridor of Fame Basis, Inc., is an industry-wide group based to protect its historical past, to have fun distinctive people who’ve made extraordinary contributions to the U.S. house furnishings {industry}, to encourage the following era of revolutionary leaders and to have interaction the neighborhood with the world of house furnishings. Our new house, which opened in April 2023, is an emblem of the Residence Furnishings Capital of the World™ the place the {industry} gathers, the place we honor our leaders and inform our tales, and the place we study by way of reveals, seminars and audio system. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit group, funds assist our historical past and management programming. The group is predicated in Excessive Level, North Carolina, at 311 S. Hamilton St., and might be reached at 336.882.5900 or by visiting www.homefurnishingshalloffame.com.