If you started a made-in-America furniture design business during the financial doldrums of 2009, and have since grown from working out of your house to a dozen-person operation in a 20,000-square-foot facility, you're doing something right. And what Greg Hankerson is doing right is creating very specific furniture that a lot of people want.
Hankerson founded Arizona-based Vintage Industrial, a company making desks, tables, seating, shelving and more, all of it looking like it was pulled out of a French factory from the 1920s.
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