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All about Williams Sonoma

Williams Sonoma is a retail company that specializes in selling home furnishings and kitchenware. Their headquarters are in San Francisco, California, and it's one of the world's biggest speciality retailers with multiple channels. They also operate brands like Pottery Barn (along with PBteen and Pottery Barn Kids, West Elm, Williams Sonoma home, and more. 

Their stores are divided into sections like cookware, electrics, bakeware, food, tabletop and bar, homekeeping, outdoor, and more. They also have quite a good sale section on their website, williams-sonoma.com, where you can find some great deals on Williams-Sonoma merchandise. In addtion, you can shop their outlet store. If you're a frequent shopper, you may wan tto consider applying for the Williams Sonoma credit card. And don't forget to add them to your favorite stores here on Tiendeo so you always know about the latest deals!

The history of Williams Sonoma

Williams Sonoma was founded in 1956 by a man named Chuck Wiliams, who lived in Sonoma, California. After a trip to France, he acquired a love for French kitchen supplies, which he thought people in the U.S. would probably like, too. So he came up with a plan to sell stuff like this is the United States. He was right - and his flagship location in San Francisco was a hit right away with famous names in American cuisine like James Beard and Julia Child. 

Williams Sonoma is often mentioned in pop culture

Over the years, Williams Sonoma has become such a staple of American culture that it's started showing up in all kinds of pop culture situations. 

Let's take a look just at some of the TV shows that have mentioned it. The list includes Friends, Sex & the City, American Dad!, Frasier, and Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. The products also show up a lot on The Oprah Winfrey Show as some of Oprah's favorite picks, including bedding, mixing bowls, measuring spons and cups, panini presses, popcorn makers, and more. 

It's also in the movie The Muse (the wives make cookies and buy their kitchen supplies at Williams Sonoma) and in Dear Edwina, a musical where the Fairy Forkmother instructs a chef on the proper etiquette for setting a table. 

More recently, the stores hosted an event with reality TV star Kris Jenner and her daughter Khloe Kardashian.