BEST In Prayer

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #174

If you’re at all an architecture nerd, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of BEST Products, the catalog retailer that set up a handful of very unusual, creative showrooms in the 1970s.

Some of them are still standing, a few have been demolished, but only one of originally nine is still intact and recognizable. It’s in Richmond, Virginia, where the compan…