Born out of a kind of spontaneous combustion of Art Deco, Modern and Scandinavian styles, Heywood-Wakefield furniture was everyman’s furnishings in the ’40s and ’50s. Young marrieds bought ...

Q: My husband — fiancé at the time — purchased a Heywood-Wakefield bedroom set in 1945. It was featured in the store window of Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney in St. Louis. I believe the pieces ...

After more than 10 years, the third phase, Heywood-Wakefield III, resulted in 78 assisted living units in half of a former factory building along Pine Street between Cross and Central streets.