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Chuck Williams
is the founder and vice chairman of the Williams-Sonoma
specialty retail empire that includes Pottery Barn, Hold Everything, and
the flagship Williams-Sonoma cookware stores. Chuck opened his first Williams-Sonoma
store in Northern California in 1956. After significant expansion in the
retail market, he introduced the Williams-Sonoma catalog. In doing so, Chuck
became the first retailer to mainstream professional cooking equipment in
the U.S. Showing few signs of slowing down, Chuck has overseen Williams-Sonoma's
successful cookbook series in addition to the company's development of an
elegant new headquarters on Van Ness Avenue in the 1990s. Anyone there will
tell you it is Chuck's energy and his penchant for quality that sets the
bar for Williams-Sonoma. Makes you wonder how he found time to remodel his
perfectly charming Nob Hill cottage. If you knew Chuck, you wouldn't wonder
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