Home Textiles Today - February 14, 2005

Midwest City, Okla. — Saundra Lee Traywick, formerly vice president and head of the design department at Chateau Home Furnishings, officially started her own design company on Feb. 6. Traywick, whose last day at Chateau was Jan. 7, said the new company would most likely bear the name Open Door Designs.

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