Daily News | At Anthropologie’s pop-up furniture sale in Philly, good deals and long lines build community
. For those who drove hours for the pop-up, it’s about both the art of the deal and building community with people who would also skip work to browse furniture.On Friday, the 40,000-square-foot space was filled with color-coordinated rows of furniture and home accessories, freshly stocked after the pop-up initially. Employees handed out water bottles and granola bars to the Anthropologie acolytes waiting in line.
Among them was Trish Gentile, 63, who was first in line for the sale with her daughter. The duo drove nearly two hours from Long Island before waiting in the parking lot at 6:50 a.m., all in hopes of securing a set of planters, lamps, and tastefully upholstered chairs. “Our plan is to divide and conquer,” said Gentile, while her daughter, who didn’t want to be named, examined the pop-up’s floor plan. Gentile would look for chairs, her daughter would snag the smaller items, and they’d rendezvous near the rugs before checkout.
Cameron Tucker, 32, of Fairmount, was also there with her mom after friends flooded her Instagram direct messages with theTucker, who described her home aesthetic as “anthro” was on the hunt for an end table and chairs to fill her bedroom, but the real star of the show is the 6-foot-tall version of the Gleaming Primrose Mirror, which has gone viral thanks to its“She probably doesn’t even know what the mirror looks like,” said Tucker about her mom, whom she considers to be her stylist and...
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