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Wayfair’s Way Day Sale Has Luxe Outdoor Furniture With a ‘Total Resort Feel’ for Up to 73% Off

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Best conversation set deals at wayfair way day, best dining set deals at wayfair way day, best lounge chair deals at wayfair way day, best adirondack and swing chair deals at wayfair way day, best pergola and gazebo deals at wayfair way day.

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You may already have your summer vacation plans in the works, but we’ll let you in on a little secret. You don’t need to travel beyond your backyard to experience resort-like comfort, rest, and relaxation thanks to Wayfair’s biggest sale of the year.

That’s right, Way Day is back, happening now through Monday, May 6 at 11:59 p.m. ET, and this massive sale includes so many outdoor furniture pieces that capture the coziness and modern style you would find at five-star resorts without the need to fly thousands of miles away. You can find comfy seating sets for up to 73 percent off, cushioned chaise lounge chairs and daybeds reminiscent of what you’d find poolside, gazebos for shade and privacy, and so much more. But hurry, the sale ends soon and popular items are selling quickly. 

• Longshore Tides Kuhn Four-Piece Sofa Seating Group , $330 (originally $1,193)
• Safavieh Hailee Eight-Person Rectangular Outdoor Dining Set , $684 (originally $2,335) 
• Sol 72 Outdoor Alvah Outdoor Eucalyptus Chaise Lounge , $314 (originally $829)
• Langley Street Hubler Swing Chair , $210 (originally $420)
• JolyDale Aluminum Pergola With Canopy , $290 (originally $450)

Mimic your favorite resort’s outdoor area with a modern dining set or swing chair that offers ultimate relaxation thanks to its comfortable egg shape and cozy cushioning. Or, put your feet up and get some rest on this chaise lounge chair with a water-resistant cushion and wheeled design that can be moved around easily. Find even more top deals below.

Langley Street Hubler Swing Chair

• Lark Manor Arlayne Two-Person Outdoor Seating Group , $200 (originally $297)
• Brayden Studio Huang Five-Piece Rattan Sectional , $350 (originally $410)
• Ebern Designs Southerland Four-Person Outdoor Seating Group , $314 (originally $820)
• Latitude Run Seven-Piece Rattan Seating Group , $570 (originally $670)

Seating groups in two-, four-, five-, and seven-piece options are on sale during Way Day, including this set that can fit four people and has a sectional, ottoman for extra seating, and table for serving light bites and holding frozen cocktails. If you’re looking for something that can fit a smaller outdoor space, grab this water-resistant two-person set that comes with cushioned chairs featuring machine-washable covers and a small glass table. It resembles an intimate table you’d request in the dining area of your go-to island hotel.

Ebern Designs Southerland Four-Person Outdoor Seating Group

• Red Barrel Studio Tahirul Four-Person Outdoor Dining Set , $570 (originally $690)
• Red Barrel Studio Alixs Six-Person Round Outdoor Dining Set , $680 (originally $2,179)
• Wade Logan Arnisa Four-Person Outdoor Dining Set , $307 (originally $410)
• Red Barrel Studio Sauvage Two-Person Patio Dining Set , $270 (originally $515)

Whether you’re hosting a gathering featuring your favorite travel-inspired dishes or just want a luxe-looking spot for you and your guests to hang out without having to go far, Wayfair has a number of dining sets to fit two, four , six, or eight people. This cafe table and chairs set is made with weather-resistant wood and can be placed on a porch or patio. If you’re looking for a larger option, grab this six-person set with a round table that’s ideal for dinner parties and is up to 66 percent off. One shopper called it “fashionable and comfortable,” adding that now, they’re a “happy outsider.” 

Red Barrel Studio Alixs Six-Person Round Outdoor Dining Set

• Wade Logan Steel Outdoor Rocker Chair , $157 (originally $586)
• Wade Logan Ardelis Outdoor Chaise Lounge , $366 (originally $499)
• Costway Outdoor Chaise Lounge , $161 (originally $399)
• Laurel Foundry Modern Farmhouse Jazmyne 69 Outdoor , $430 (originally $640)

Vacation is all about lounging, and Wayfair’s sale has so many items that will make you forget you’re at home and transport you to another part of the world. This daybed , on sale in white and red, offers a “total resort feel,” according to one reviewer, thanks to its plush cushions and retractable canopy that can provide shade on hot and sunny days. Way Day’s smaller lounge options include this chair that has wheels to move it around easily and this 60 percent-off option that can recline for a peaceful sunbathing experience. It comes with a lumbar pillow for added support.

Costway Outdoor Chaise Lounge

• Beachcrest Home Shawnna Set of Four Adirondack Chairs , $370 (originally $648)
• Beachcrest Home Ravenna Hdpe Rocking Adirondack Chair , $115 (originally $203)
• Dakota Fields Burhans Two-Person Swing Chair , $340 (originally $540)
• Marciano Adirondack Set of Two Chairs , From $208 (originally from $340)

To enjoy your outdoor space at night under the stars, snag Adirondack chairs that transport you to a summer lake house. This set of four can be placed around a fire pit for roasting s’mores, and one customer said the chairs “weathered a Great Lakes winter well.” Plus, they’re foldable for easy storage when they’re not in use. You can also find rocking Adirondack chairs discounted in 14 color options, along with cushioned swing chairs that can fit one person or two people . 

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• Balconera Double Roof Aluminum Patio Gazebo , $649 (originally $930)
• Eagle Peak Pop Up Patio Gazebo , $136 (originally $200)
• AbcCanopy Steel Patio Gazebo , $155 (originally $210)
• JolyDale 14-Foot Metal Pergola With Canopy , $564 (originally $730)

Of course, summer is bound to bring humid and sunny weather, so you’ll need a way to stay cool in the heat. Give your backyard space some shade with a pergola or gazebo that can be placed over your main seating area. This gazebo is “absolutely beautiful,” per one shopper, and still lets sunlight in through the top even if the privacy and mosquito-resistant curtains are closed. Visually appealing pergolas like this one with a canopy are up to 36 percent off, and provide shade, privacy, and a modern touch to your patio. Or, grab this metal version that sits flush against your home and provides shade to a dining area.

Balconera Double Roof Aluminum Patio Gazebo

There are so many more outdoor furniture finds worth adding to your cart during Wayfair’s Way Day sale , so grab them before it ends tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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The 150,000 sq. ft. space is located just outside Chicago and features some of the home goods retailer's biggest hits

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There's a lot in store at Wayfair' s first-ever store!

Opening on Thursday, May 23, just 20 miles outside of Chicago, the new 150,000 sq. ft. space is filled with the furniture and accessories the site's shoppers love, plus all sorts of artistic nods to the Windy City and an indoor/outdoor cafe.

Highlights include a wall of couches for $999 or less, an art studio that allows shoppers to customize the sizes and frames from a curated selection of prints and a "Shower Experience," where visitors can test the flow of various shower heads with the touch of a button.

A whimsical kids' department offers beds for babies on up to big kids — set against a playful rendition of the Chicago skyline — and a pet section is full of couches for dogs and cats that coordinate with some of Wayfair's most popular human sofas.

Here, get a sneak peek inside the store before it opens to the public at 10 a.m. next Thursday with a weekend full of special events .

A cheerful, wall-spanning display features giant renditions of the furniture and home goods for sale in the store. Once inside, the space is organized by room of the house, with shoppable QR codes on every item.

The space Wayfair now occupies used to be a smaller, darker Carson Pirie Scott department store. Its designers not only expanded the building's footprint but added a giant skylight on top of the two-story building that allows natural light to shine in. On the first floor, a marketplace with seasonal selections of tableware and other small goods is housed within the atrium.

The Test Couch

A cozy sofa situated in the rainbow-ordered pillow department is meant to be used as a test space for mixing and matching throw pillow and blanket combinations.

The Dream Center

While the store itself is lightly scented with a custom fragrance that blends clean laundry and fresh-cut grass, The Dream Center — an area that allows shoppers to test mattresses — has its own lavender and rain scent, meant to elicit sweet dreams.

The Children's Department

Everything in the colorful children's area is available for purchase — right down to the giant purple giraffe.

The Shower Experience

You can't hop in, but the Shower Experience gives shoppers an idea of how a variety of shower heads spray. Across the way, a sink display does the same with kitchen faucets.

The Design Studio

On both levels of the store, interior designers will be on hand at all times to help shoppers with material selection and customization, covering everything from rugs and window dressings to tiles and backsplashes.

The indoor/outdoor Porch cafe carries all-day breakfast and light bites, plus coffee from local favorite Dollop and a selection of wines and beers shoppers can sip throughout the store.

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13 Best Memorial Day Furniture Sales and Home Deals

By Rachel Fletcher , Audrey Lee , Erika Owen , and Megan Wahn

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It’s officially off to the races for the best Memorial Day furniture sales of 2024. The holiday falls on May 27 this year, but many of the best early Memorial Day sales are already well underway, thanks to a few spring and Mother’s Day sales, and will last through the beginning of June. Lucky you.

So whether you’re looking for a large investment piece like a stylish new sectional , some new bedroom furniture, or some fun decor upgrades like a touch of rattan, a handsome lamp, or some lovely bedding—we’ve rounded up everything you need to liven your space. We’ve searched high and low to bring you the best trending Memorial Day furniture sales to shop this weekend—featuring some of AD ’s favorite retailers like Burrow, Wayfair, and more.

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Need a new rug? Then you’ll want to shop Serena & Lily’s Footnotes sale, where you can get up to 30% off on all rugs from now until May 13.

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Bedding and loungewear: They are the finishing touch for any carefully curated room. Now’s your chance to try the bedding brand that both Oprah and commerce editor Audrey Lee gave their stamp of approval to. For Mother’s Day weekend, save up to 30%. We recommend stocking up on the cool-to-the-touch bamboo sheet sets.

Bamboo Sheet Set

Wayfair is great for those “I need a piece of furniture, quick!” moments. It’s also great for holiday sales. Right now, the major retailer’s celebrating Mother’s Day with 25% off anything kitchen related—giving you a chance to give your mom (or yourself) a new stand mixer, cookware, or an air fryer toaster oven.

Cuisinart Silver Airfryer Toaster Oven With Grill

If you’re looking to deck out your dining room, home office, living room, or any other space in your house with new pieces, you’ll definitely want to check out Castlery’s early access Memorial Day sale. Senior commerce editor Rachel Fletcher especially loved reclining on the Jonathan chaise sectional sofa , and you can get a Jonathan leather sofa that comes with an ottoman at a little over $200 off.

Castlery Jonathan Leather Extended Sofa with Ottoman

Everyone’s favorite bed frame from Clever  fave brand Floyd is offering 20% off sectionals and up to 30% off sitewide this Memorial Day weekend.

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The Company Store

There are a lot of things you could stock up on during The Company Store’s summer sale, but we recommend looking into the indoor/outdoor pillow situation. Anyway, you can get up to 35% off comforters, pillows, and other bedding using code SUMMER24 and up to 30% off sitewide on everything else—no code needed.

Jersey Knit Comforter Set

This is certainly one of the best Memorial Day furniture deals out there—right now, you can score a whopping 60% off sitewide with retailer Burrow. That means markdowns on sleek sofas, outdoor furniture, accent chairs, armchairs, side tables, bed frames, dressers, and so much more from a brand that’s a favorite among Clever staff . This is definitely one of the biggest sales on this list.

Relay Outdoor 5-Piece Sectional

If you want aesthetically pleasing cookware, look no further than the brand Our Place. This brand makes gorgeously hued pots, pans, and even a few kitchen appliances you wouldn’t hate leaving out in your living space. Commerce editor Audrey Lee personally loved the cast iron Always Pan , which you can get on sale now as part of Our Place’s 40% off Spring Sale

Our Place Cast Iron Always Pan

The Avocado Eco Organic mattress maintains a spot as one of our favorite mattresses that come in a box , and you can get the Eco now for $130 off as part of Avocado’s 20% off Memorial Day Sale.

Avocado Eco Organic Mattress

Zinus, who makes some of our favorite bed frames is offering 10% off sitewide with the code MOM10. We’d use this as an opportunity to snag the Ultra Cooling Green Tea mattress, which is currently 46% off.

Zinus Original Green Tea Mattress

Ashley is offering customers a few hot deals during their Memorial Day Preview. You can find bed frames , dressers, dining sets, patio furniture, living room coffee tables, sofas, Tempur-Pedic mattresses, and just about anything else you’d need to outfit an entire apartment.

Parellen Dining Table and 4 Chairs

If you dream of backyard s’mores and cozy nights next to the fire, listen up for Solo Stove’s Mother’s Day weekend offerings. With up to 12% off sitewide, you can make your dreams come true. Just use promo code the HOTMOMS.

Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 Wood Burning Fire Pit

The Clever staff has tried (and loved) a lot of Casper mattresses. In fact, we dedicated a whole story just to some of our favorites. One was the Nova mattress , which contributor Nora Taylor found offered the ideal balance of plushness and support. Though Casper doesn’t sell the Nova anymore, you can get the very similar Dream Max Hybrid mattress for 30% off as part of the brand’s Memorial Day deals.

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Shopper finds vintage furniture with hidden value at thrift store: 'I'm surprised Goodwill didn't try to jack the price up'

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A savvy thrifter scored big at their local Goodwill after discovering a piece of vintage furniture for only a fraction of the original price. 

The turquoise chair was a 1965 Baumritter in excellent condition. Mid-century Baumritter pieces can start at $1,500 and range up to $2,500 depending on the style and condition.

Redditors were shocked by the chair's beautiful condition and insanely low price.

"OMG! I've never seen one in the wild, and I've never seen one for under $200 (and those were in rough shape)," one user wrote .

"I'm surprised Goodwill didn't try to jack the price up," another Redditor commented. "I'm very happy it went to a good home."

Thrift shopping is an exciting way to uncover rare, valuable items at great discounts. Instead of purchasing new products, consider buying everyday necessities secondhand to save money . By replacing just half of your yearly purchases with secondhand finds , you can save up to $75 .

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Thrifting also helps keep items out of landfills while reducing the need for mass-produced products. According to data from the Environmental Protection Agency, cited by Recycle Track Systems , Americans generated 12.2 million tons of furniture waste in 2017 alone, and 80.2% of that waste ended up rotting in a landfill. 

Depending on the type of furniture piece, it can take anywhere from a few years to a couple of thousand years to decompose. While wooden furniture typically takes about 13 years to fully decompose , plastic furniture takes thousands of years, contributing to the release of harmful plant-warming gases in the process.

Like fast fashion , fast furniture from stores that advertise cheap prices is not manufactured to last long. Consumers buy these items only to throw them out after short periods of time. So, purchasing quality secondhand pieces saves you time and money. 

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How to Navigate London’s Wondrous (and Very Big) V&A Museum

Paintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The Victoria and Albert Museum is a treasure trove of art and design. Here’s one besotted visitor’s plan for taking it all in.

By Andrew Ferren

Andrew Ferren, a frequent contributor to the Travel section, has visited the V&A dozens of times and looks forward to exploring the new satellite buildings when they open in East London in 2025.

Even for someone who loves getting lost in museums — especially “everything museums” like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York — London’s Victoria and Albert Museum might have been my Waterloo. The statistics are daunting: 5,000 years of artistic production with more than 60,000 works on view (from a collection of some 2.8 million) in about 150 galleries beneath 21 acres of roof.

The V&A typically draws around 3 million annual visitors, but even on the busiest days, the museum has the space and setup to largely avoid the sense of competing with the crowds. Since visiting the permanent collection is free (some exhibitions cost up to 20 pounds, or about $25), once you’re in the door you can just start wandering. Step right for medieval mosaics and Renaissance tapestries or go deep for 1940s Paris fashion, Baroque sculpture and, beyond that, Buddhist art.

It’s easy to spend an entire day in the V&A. Here’s a plan for making the most of your visit. But first a bit of background.

An eclectic treasure trove

If the British Museum is known as Britain’s attic — an abundance of artistic and cultural relics from the realm and around the globe — then the V&A is the country’s classroom. It, too, is a trove of exemplary works, from exquisite Raphael drawings to groovy 1970s plastic radios; Coptic tunics to Alexander McQueen couture gowns; vividly hued Islamic tiles to a bunch of grand English beds. These objects were displayed not just to delight connoisseurs, but to provide great art and ideas to educate British designers, manufacturers and workers in good taste and technical prowess.

The museum was the pet project of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, who had seen firsthand that British manufactured goods were not always top of the class. By displaying applied arts (textiles, ceramics, glass and other manufactured objects) alongside fine arts (architecture, painting and sculpture), the new museum would democratize aesthetic appreciation and inspire better designs for better products.

Originally known as the South Kensington Museum, the V&A opened in 1857 in temporary structures while new buildings were constructed. Incorporated into the new museum were libraries and schools for science and art, including one for women. The leading artists of the time, such as Frederic Leighton and William Morris, contributed to its décor. Such was its embrace of modernity, that the world’s first museum exhibition of photography (the medium was “invented’ only in the 1820s) was held here in 1858.

Though Prince Albert died in 1861, the museum continued to expand. In 1899, Queen Victoria laid the cornerstone of a grand new entrance wing along Cromwell Road and renamed the complex the Victoria and Albert Museum.

If that sounds fusty, it’s not. More than 165 years after its opening, the V&A’s pioneering spirit hasn’t faded. Its fashion blockbusters, like “Naomi: In Fashion,” celebrating the model Naomi Campbell (opening June 22), are must-see shows. And its outreach programs, studio classes and parties engage the public as few museums do. Recently, the V&A’s reach has been growing, with offshoots such as the Scottish V&A Dundee , a kid-centric Young V&A and two new museum buildings — one featuring nearly 250,000 works — opening in East London in 2025.

Many contemporary artists and designers claim the V&A as among their favorite museums, and one to which they return again and again. Though neither artist nor designer, I, too, claim the V&A as a favorite museum and have visited dozens of times, often for less than an hour just to wow my young kids with the monumental plaster casts of European monuments or even just to get out of the rain.

But I knew there were still sections I’d never visited. So, after an absence of three years, I spent a day there and came up with a game plan for others to navigate those vast halls.

Get there at 10 a.m., when the doors open, so you can breeze through the ground-floor galleries while they are still virtually empty and then head to more remote parts.

Since fabrics are fragile and fade, the fashion exhibits are changed regularly and there’s always something fresh and engaging to see. From there, wind past the entrance through the arts of Asia, from the elegantly simple furniture of Ming China to the intricately carved lacquerware of Japan, to the eye-poppingly vivid blue tile reliefs and stunning silk carpets such as the 16th-century Ardibil carpet from Persia.

Then into the Cast Courts, three huge galleries packed with full-size reproductions — plaster and metal casts — of sculptures and building fragments from around Europe. Exact copies of medieval tombs line the floor while masterpieces like Michelangelo’s David, Trajan’s Column and Renaissance church facades rise toward the ceiling. One can easily get stuck here, awed by the scale and charmed by the concept of corralling massive replicas from across the centuries into a playground for architecture buffs.

From there it’s an easy slide into the adjacent medieval and Renaissance galleries, which cover Europe from 300 to 1600, and where the colorful fourth- and fifth-century tapestry fragments on view or the radiant gold-backed mosaics from Ravenna, Italy, reveal that the Dark Ages were not entirely devoid of light and color.

The later galleries reveal just how connected and sophisticated many parts of Europe were in the Renaissance. Exquisite regional products — metalwork and armor from Germany, shimmering lusterware ceramics from Spain, tapestries from Brussels — became sought after on an international marketplace.

Carving your own path

In such a sprawling museum, there is no single logical or even chronological path to follow. For many, that’s part of the V&A’s appeal: the quirky juxtapositions one encounters roaming its six floors (the ground floor is numbered zero, so the “fourth floor” is actually the fifth level; the V&A also has a -1 basement level).

So on my visit, once the galleries started filling up at midday, I took the elevator to the remote fourth-floor ceramics galleries and then made my way to the lower floors.

On the fourth floor, it feels as if virtually everything ever made of clay or porcelain — Ming, majolica, Meissen, you name it — is displayed in floor-to-ceiling cases, including stacks of Chinese bowls salvaged from a ship that sank in 1400 off the Malay Peninsula.

Just when you think one can’t stretch the clay any further, you get to a display about Josiah Wedgwood and his innovative Jasperware that became the rage around the world in the 18th century. (The V&A also has an outpost in Stoke-on-Trent dedicated entirely to Wedgwood). The remaining fourth-floor galleries showcase furniture from the last 600 years.

The third floor offers a similar range of media and epochs — from international glass in all its facets to architectural models. One might expect Venetian Murano glass to reign supreme, but the quirky and colorful 18th-century German enameled glass, as well as green-hued glasses and goblets adorned with blobs of glass steal the show.

On the second floor, a network of long galleries offers deep dives into religious stained glass, small-scale bronze sculptures, English paintings and drawings, as well as tapestries. Nearby, gorgeous murals by Frederic Leighton push the V&A propaganda in themes like “The Arts Applied to War” and “The Arts Applied to Peace.”

Also on the second floor, the Photography Center recently expanded its galleries to become Britain’s largest photography exhibition center. Part of a display called “Design: 1900-Now,” features a recent acquisition: a store-bought snorkeling mask that had been adapted by an Italian designer into a functioning oxygen mask during the darkest days of the Covid crisis in 2020.

In a country famous for its crown jewels, the V&A’s spot-lit jewelry gallery packs in everything from fifth-century Byzantine bracelets to jaunty 1970s body jewelry. Standouts include the Townshend jewels — a virtual encyclopedia of gemstones, from colored diamonds to opals, each set in individual rings and displayed in swirls of brilliant color.

And finally, stretching almost across the entire second floor is a display of every imaginable type of ironwork. Seeing these works, such as the monumental 19th-century Gothic Revival choir screen from Salisbury Cathedral, calls to mind the Goethe quote that “architecture is frozen music.”

Take a break then keep going

Even if you’re not hungry, head to the ground level to the Refreshment Rooms, the world’s first museum cafe, which opened in 1868. Designed by the leading talents of the day — James Gamble, William Morris, Philip Webb, Edward Burne-Jones and Edward J. Poynter — the original decoration remains largely intact, a snapshot of Victorian modernity. Back in the day, each room had a different menu and proposed clientele, but today, for about £10, visitors can choose from a buffet of hot English fare, quiches, sandwiches, beer, wine or soft drinks, and take their meal into whichever room they find most pleasing.

Back in the galleries, I had saved what I considered the best for last: some two dozen British galleries (spread between levels 1 and 3) that tell the country’s history from the Tudors to the Victorians through paintings, furniture, clothing, musical instruments, textiles and truly fabulous beds, including the Great Bed of Ware, a massive four-poster built in 1590 for an inn. It measures nearly 11 feet on each side, supposedly able to accommodate four couples. Centuries-old graffiti covers practically every plank, and its fame merited a mention in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”: “… as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware.”

And then finally, the most extraordinary works in the museum, shown in a cathedral-like space: the famous Rafael cartoons for the tapestries that were created to adorn the Sistine Chapel in 1515-16. Commissioned by Pope Leo X, Raphael painted the designs on paper, which would have been used as the guide for the weavers to follow. Now owned by King Charles III and considered among the greatest works of Renaissance art, they were created as part of a manufacturing process, so it seems wholly appropriate they are on loan to the V&A, where fine art and manufacturing go hand in hand.

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Former cb2 store in uptown minneapolis becoming a 'boutique' roller rink.

The 2021 closure of St. Louis Park's beloved Roller Garden left only two roller rinks in the metro: Skateville in Burnsville and Cheap Skate in Coon Rapids.

But as roller-skating experiences a national resurgence, Twin Cities residents will soon have easier access to a new "boutique" rink, as Twin Cities Skaters takes over the former home of the CB2 store in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis .

Twin Cities Skaters is a mobile, roller-rink pop up that sprang up during the pandemic. Before that, longtime roller skater James Adams had amassed a collection of skates that he loaned to kids and their families at the Minneapolis school where he worked. In the summer of 2020, Adams partnered with a DJ friend to host a roller skating event at Taft Park in Richfield, which ended up continuing every week into the fall.

Soon other community-minded organizations with flat, open, skateable spaces were calling them, including the YMCA and St. Paul and Minneapolis downtown business associations. Adams has since hosted skate events at all sorts of locations, including a brewery and Art-A-Whirl. A recent skate night at City Center in downtown Minneapolis drew more than 500 people.

Last December, Adams hosted a roller-skating event at Uptown's Seven Points' Winter Wonderland pop-up market. That led to his taking over the adjacent site formerly occupied by CB2, a home furnishings retailer. The store closed in 2022.

Twin Cities Skaters offers lessons, performances and skate maintenance in addition to public and private events. The new, concrete-floored space, called Twin Cities Skaters Studio, will allow Adams to host open skating, as well as roller fitness classes, birthday parties and skatearoki (karaoke on four wheels).

He hopes to have the space open in a few weeks and will share information about upcoming events on Twin Cities Skaters website ( twincitiesskaters.com ) and social media channels. In the meantime, Adams is hosting free skating on Fridays at Rice Park in downtown St. Paul, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

To get the next generation an early start on four-wheeled gliding, the studio in Uptown will open for a free toddler skating event on May 28, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

"One of our slogans is to make America skate again," he said.

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