Best Products

04/06/2025

Radio, cassette recorder, binoculars…

04/06/2025

I worked in Greensboro, ‘74-‘75. How about you?

06/18/2021

Best Products showroom pencils!

For your consideration, a lot of five Best Products pencils from the 1980's. Red with BEST PRODUCTS stamped in white. Very minor wear from storage.

01/17/2019

Best Products sign on High Point Rd in Greensboro, NC, circa 1980.

01/17/2019

Best Products history from Wikipedia

Best Products (also known simply as BEST) was a chain of American catalog showroom retail stores founded by Sydney and Frances Lewis, formerly headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded in 1957 and went out of business in 1997. At the time it filed the second time for bankruptcy it had 169....

01/17/2019

Looking back...

One of America's largest catalog showroom chains was Best Products. Founded in Richmond, Virginia in the mid-1950s by Sydney and Frances Lewis, Best grew to ...

01/17/2019

Best Products: When Art, Architecture and Commerce Collided

Image 1 of 40 from gallery of When Art, Architecture and Commerce Collided: The BEST Products Showrooms by SITE.

09/19/2016

Great piece on Best Products and its remarkable architectural legacy. I worked at the Greensboro store for two years, from late 1974 thru early spring 1976.

Did the series of architectural statements that shocked postmodern thought in the late 70s survive the decades or was it consumed by the very typology it sought to parody?

06/25/2016

Any other former Best Products employees out there?

One of America's largest catalog showroom chains was Best Products. Founded in Richmond, Virginia in the mid-1950s by Sydney and Frances Lewis, Best grew to ...