PENHALIGON'S, the perfume house established in the 1870s, has a storied history.
Tata Group, India's biggest business house, established the model in 1996.
The publishing house established by Karl Baedeker in Germany issued ''The Rhine,'' one of its first travel books in 1861.
The men were partners in H. B. Hollins & Company, a Wall Street banking house established by Mr. Hollins in 1878.
The sight of him carrying the rigid animal out of his aunt's house establishes the movie's tone of smirking gallows humor.
Charles Scribner, Jr., was also a man of letters; he presided over the publishing house established by his great-grandfather in the eighteen-forties.
There was, however, one black theater house established in the early decades of the century: William Brown's African Grove Theater on Mercer Street.
Although the designer hopes to hold a small presentation during the July couture season, this was the last house established under the formal couture rules.
ACCORDING to local lore, Jefferson liked one white Burgundy, the Goutte d'Or, so much that "he bought an entire year's crop," said Louis-Fabrice Latour, director of Maison Louis Latour, a négociant house established in 1797.
The two designers, Tibetan and Korean, respectively, in their origins, were appointed creative directors for the Paris-based Kenzo house, established back in the 1970s by the Japanese designer Kenzo Takada.
"Dior Couture" (Rizzoli), by the photographer Patrick Demarchelier, is far and away the most gorgeous book on the house, established by Christian Dior shortly after the end of World War II.
