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draped on walls. The options are dizzying and, for interior
design buffs, intoxicating.
Owner Jerry Arcari is an Oriental rugs aficionado. He's
apprenticed with an expert from Beirut, and has traveled
extensively, learning from and connecting with village
weavers. He also paid his dues while working as a rug buyer
for Jordan Marsh's Peabody store, where he started in sales
right after high school in the late 1950s.
When Jerry and his wife Connie heard that George and
Charles Landry were retiring, they acquired the brothers'
40-plus-year-old company, Landry Brothers Upholstery
Furniture, in 1981. The combination of the Landrys' strong
customer base (the brothers stayed on for a year after the
purchase, hence the combo name Landry & Arcari) and
Jerry's Jordan Marsh clientele made for a strong beginning.
Since then, "business has flown," says Jerry.
"A rug is a work of art: The whole process is fascinating,
from the shearing and the spinning of the wool, to the dying,
to the creation of a template that is brought to life on a loom,"
he says. The entrepreneur counts himself lucky to have
experienced a renaissance in the rug industry. "Customers
today are so much more knowledgeable, more artistic, and
more color sensitive than when I first started," he relates.
Under the leadership of his three children—Julie is CEO,
Jeff oversees the Oriental rug division, and Jay manages
the broadloom carpeting—Landry & Arcari continues to
expand. "The cherry on the frosting of the cake is being able
to flip rugs with my grandson in the Boston store on week-
ends," says Jerry. "It's been a trip and a half, and I would do
it all over again." landryandarcari.com
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Carpet Clan: The Arcari family, left to right, Julie, Jay, Jerry, Ben, and Jeff
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