all the big things
THE BIG CHEST OF DRAWERS NORTH CAROLINA, USA
id you know there’s an 11-metre-tall commercial building shaped like a chest of drawers in High Point, North Carolina? (Finally, a dresser large enough for those of us who have trouble keeping our colourful sock collections in check!) Nicknamed the “home furnishing and hosiery capital of the world” – you’ve gotta admire their self-confidence – the town is home to a long-established furniture manufacturing industry, as well as the annual High Point Furniture Market, which draws 100,000 people each year. The local Chamber of Commerce built the original chest of drawers in 1926, calling it the ‘Bureau of Information’. (Apparently small-town bureaucrats love puns as much as the rest of us.)
