4/29/05
For Immediate Release
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4/29/05, For Immediate Release

Terra Furniture Expands Its Licensed Mount Vernon Line

City of Industry, CA - Terra Furniture continues to bring America's historic past to the present, creating outdoor furniture for the 21st Century as it expands its licensed Mount Vernon line.

In addition to the Mount Vernon Oval Dining Table and Dining Arm Chairs that debuted last fall, Terra offers a Dining Side Chair, a Club Chair, a Garden Bench, a 25-inch Round Occasional Table and a 48-inch Round Dining Table.

Produced under an exclusive licensing agreement with the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, caretakers of Mount Vernon, the home of George and Martha Washington, these new furnishings are also inspired by furniture used in the Washington estate's Small Dining Room.

The Mount Vernon line, constructed of cast and extruded aluminum, is available in 20 designer finishes. A new custom fabric called "Martha's Garden" - available in beige on off-white tapestry and terra cotta on off-white tapestry - is inspired by the interior wallpaper lining of a trunk found at Mount Vernon (and thought to have been used by a vice regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association visiting the estate from Tennessee). The fabric is just one of many colors and patterns made of Sunbrella yarns that are available.

The Mount Vernon Bench seats three adults comfortably on its 64-inch seat. It features the distinctive ladder-back ribbon design seen in Terra's Mount Vernon Dining Chairs.

The 25-Inch Round Occasional Table is a perfect accompaniment to the Mount Vernon Bench or Club Chair. The Occasional Table, as well as a new 48-Inch Round Dining Table, feature the same design that inspired Terra's Mount Vernon Oval Dining Table - the elliptical bull's-eye window of the third-floor china closet at the Washington mansion - and the table top sparkles with cast aluminum window panes, topped by glistening tempered glass.

The provenance of the chairs seen today by visitors to Mount Vernon's Small Dining Room has been confirmed by letters written by George Washington. Washington asked Robert Morris, the Superintendent of Finance, to provide $1,500 to Mrs. Washington, so "she should procure at Philadelphia some Articles of Furniture . . . for my House in Virginia." The chairs arrived at Mount Vernon by boat early in 1784. Five of a numbered set of Philadelphia ladder-back chairs of the 1780s are in the Small Dining Room at Mount Vernon today and are undoubtedly part of this shipment.

"We are so pleased with our partnership with Terra," noted Beverly Addington, licensing director at Mount Vernon. "George Washington had a deep love and enthusiasm for gardening and landscape design, so a garden furniture collection is a natural for Mount Vernon."

For more information about Terra Furniture, call 626/912-8523 or visit www.terrafurniture.com.

To learn more about Mount Vernon, please contact Emily Coleman at 703-799-8607 or ecoleman@mountvernon.org. or visit our web site www.mountvernon.org.

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