The RoomPlace (Harlem Furniture)

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The RoomPlace traced its lineage to 1912, when Sam Berman opened a Chicago furniture business. The family operation became closely identified with Harlem Furniture, a name tied to its long-running Harlem Avenue store. After decades as a one-store concern, the business began a major Chicagoland expansion in 1985—because apparently one showroom full of sofas was not enough.

As the chain grew, it adopted the The RoomPlace at Harlem Furniture banner in 2001, emphasizing packaged room settings rather than lone chairs left to fend for themselves. The business later simplified the name to The RoomPlace. A private-equity investor group acquired majority ownership in 2004; in 2011, Bruce Berman’s TRP Acquisitions purchased substantially all assets of Harlem Furniture, operating as The RoomPlace.

The retailer filed for Chapter 11 protection on February 2, 2024. After efforts to sell the business did not produce a going-concern buyer, its remaining store network entered closing sales. Four locations briefly returned under the Harlem Furniture name in 2025, but the physical stores closed that September. The RoomPlace Furniture and Mattress LLC subsequently filed a Chapter 7 case on April 6, 2026.

Our The RoomPlace (Harlem Furniture) collection celebrates Chicago furniture retail at full showroom volume: room packages, sale banners, generations of Berman-family history, and the very Midwestern confidence that the right sectional could solve nearly anything.