Red carpet for Royal Manner

By Gary James -- Furniture Today, September 10, 2007

Chicago — Walter E. Smithe applied a regal touch to its three-store rollout of Highland House's Royal Manner collection in north suburban Chicago late last month.

The retailer, the first in the nation to introduce the collection, threw a pre-launch dinner party aboard a yacht on Lake Michigan, with Chicago's skyline as a background. The guest of honor was Paul Burrell — former butler to England's royal family and former personal assistant to the late Princess Diana — who

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