"John Van Koert, designer of Drexel's Profile group, has brought fresh enthusiasm as well as a keen professional eye to the furniture field. From Bowaters, Beautility was sold to Frank Austin of Austinsuites, then to Stonehill Furniture, Ltd., then to The Morris Group of Glasgow, Scotland in 1999 and re-branded as Zone Furniture. On retiring, they sold their controlling interest in Beautility to the firm Bowaters. Later that year the two older brothers retired (the youngest one had passed away at age 39). Come 1957, Beautility took over furniture manufacturing firm "Supersuites". Design restrictions were lifted in 1949/1950. When the war ended the Board of Trade requested they only make utility furniture, along with the other furniture manufacturers, as needed for reconstruction. During the war years the Ministry of Supply requested the Beautility factory make ammunition boxes and other items for the war effort. became a publicly traded company in 1935 and was producing 1,000 dining suites (sideboard, table, 4 chairs) each week until 1939, when war broke out. In 1931 new offices and factory were occupied at Angel Road, Edmonton. to work at Freshman's Radio who manufactured radios with the latest mass production methods for the period. Ronald Sadovsky went on to train in producing working drawings for his furniture designs manufactured what became Beautility Furniture Ltd (named by youngest brother Harvey, or "Chi", from the terms "beautiful and useful"). The brothers wanted to make more modern furniture so they proceeded to manufacture fine bedroom and dining room suites along with reproduction pieces like wine tables, nest tables, lamp standards, etc. By 1929 the Scawfell factory was moved to a new factory in Ezra Street. and an office and showroom opposite in Hackney Road E. By 1927 the firm owned a factory in Scawfell Street E. The firms in Scotland exported the furniture to the United States. They crafted fine reproduction furniture in mahogany and walnut, wrapped the pieces in canvas and packed them in wood crates, then sent them to Scotland. The 1908 phone book lists Sadovsky Brothers at 55 Austin Street E. Beautility began in 1896 when 24 year old Simon Sadovsky opened a cabinet makers shoppe in the Shorditch area of London.
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