I was a young girl growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when the Imperial Furniture was in its hay day. Many of our friends and family were employed there including my father, a woodworker all of his life. I’ll always remember dad coming home from work and presenting my mother with this beautiful walnut coffee table has been with our family ever since
Imperial Furniture Company - Grand Rapids, Michigan
F. Stuart Foote began at the Grand Rapids Chair Co., which his father, E.H. Foote, owned. Imperial’s primary product was tables, Foote laid claim to inventing the “coffee table” after he helped his wife prepare for a party by lowering the legs on a table. Imperial made dining room tables to go along with buffets. Imperial was the first factory to bring out Duncan Phyfe reproductions. They worked mostly in mahogany but also had pieces of cherry. In the 1940’s, they made wood airplane wings for the government.
Size:-22 3/4” wide - 19” high
Weight: 8 lbs.
When Made: 1950’s
Price: $150