Crate & Barrel is celebrating 60 years in operation through in-store celebrations and behind-the-scenes looks at the company’s beginnings.
It is offering reimagined variations on some of its best sellers in the iconic black and white palette including Marin dinnerware, Edge glassware, and the Ona pitcher, Crate & Barrel noted. The company also is thanking customers for their loyalty by conducting a sweepstakes in all stores.
Gordon and Carole Segal founded Crate & Barrel a year after returning from their honeymoon to share simple yet beautiful European imported home goods they encountered during their travels. The first Crate & Barrel store on Chicago’s Wells Street displayed dinnerware sets and entertaining essentials atop wooden crates and barrels. The display style proved to be forward-looking and highlighted the quality, accessible design of the company’s merchandise. Today, Crate & Barrel remains focused on a way of doing business established at the beginning of its history with exceptional service, a design-forward product assortment and meaningful collaborations, the company stated. Crate & Barrel has forged partnerships with vendors such as Wustof and Bodum for over 50 years and has evolved into an online and in-store destination for design advice, registry guidance, designer collaborations including with Leanne Ford, and products that support sustainable, purposeful living, the company maintained.
“We hadn’t seen anything in the U.S. like the classic designs we had come to love during our travels, so it was a prime opportunity to curate pieces we knew others would enjoy,” said Gordon Segal, co-founder of Crate & Barrel, in announcing the anniversary celebration. “We could never have imagined how Crate & Barrel would evolve until we saw how much desire from consumers there was for a home goods destination like this.”
