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 ...

The Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Company began when five brothers from Gardener, Mass., began to build chairs in their barn. I wrote about the history of the company in a March 24 column.

In 1897, they merged with the Wakefield Company to become the Heywood-Wakefield Company, the famous makers of wicker furniture. So your chair was manufactured before 1897. Potential dollar value ...

Wakefield found a use for it, and soon he and Heywood were competing aggressively in the wicker furniture business. The two firms merged in 1897 and became the Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Co.

GARDNER — The final phase of the reuse of the former Heywood-Wakefield Co. factory complex has received federal and state funding. Mayor Mark P. Hawke said a section of the factory complex ...