Sligh

Sligh Furniture Company was founded in 1880. Sligh was the first company to offer from one plant, in coordinated styles and finishes, all the furniture pieces needed for the bedroom. And that innovation did indeed transform the way the industry approached bedroom furniture.

In the 1980s Sligh expanded its furniture line with innovative solutions for hiding the plethora of cords associated with electronic equipment. The Sligh Corridor group combined classic 18th century form with 21st century function and won the first place gold award at NEOCON, the annual business office furniture market.

During the 1990s Sligh became the high end leader in home office furniture, inventing patented computer cabinets, modular home office furniture and seating.

Beginning in 2000, Sligh searched for some time for a closely associated furniture niche that they could profitably enter to accelerate growth. Following a television industry recession in the late 1990s, new digital television technologies ignited growth in the 2000s.

With typical thoroughness, the design, development, engineering and sample making people spent a couple years in full-blown research mode for home entertainment. Research included becoming immersed in consumer electronics, understanding the shapes and functions and dimensions and how consumers want to use technology. Sligh created research partnerships with consumer electronics retailers, attended consumer electronics shows, talked with consumers and dealers and editors and leveraged our great industrial design, furniture design, model making and engineering teams’ ability to develop superior function and style. In 2002, Sligh entered the home entertainment furniture market with a full collection of patented designs.

Sligh has been a finalist every year, earning three first place awards for home office and three for home entertainment from the American Society of Furniture Designers. They established the annual Pinnacle Awards program in 1996 to recognize outstanding home furnishings designs.

Recognizing the fast growing home entertainment, home living and home office furnishings businesses required their full time attention, Sligh sold its clock designs to Bulova Corporation in 2005.

Through the years Sligh has adapted its product lines, but one thing has remained constant: well appreciated product innovation developed by a superb team of people that make a positive difference for Sligh, the industry and high-end consumers everywhere. Thanks to the people at Sligh in all areas, their first 128 years has been a great beginning.