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2009 Carpet Replacement Project
Shea's Buffalo Theatre / Shea's Performing Arts Center
646 Main Street, Buffalo, New York

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The carpet is being ordered from Ulster Ireland because no American company today manufactures woven - versus, tufted - carpeting The reproduction carpeting is accurate in terms of wool material, color and patterns.

Tiffany Studios, which designed the interior of Shea's, used the same carpeting (and similar fixtures) in the Uptown Theatre in Chicago (Wikipedia: Uptown Theatre). Of the four movie house interiors that Tiffany Studios designed, only Shea's is functioning in 2009.


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Second floor display

Project information

 

Stairs

Petite Lobby

Hallways

Lower Level Ladies Lounges

Upper Level Ladies Lounges

Carpet sample.

 

 





Special thanks to Shea's President Anthony Conte for his cooperation and to Shea's Restoration Manager Doris Collins for her assistance in June 2009

Photos and their arrangement © 2009 Chuck LaChiusa
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