After the family business closed in 2012, Anthony could not see doing anything else other than furniture. Andrew’s son Sal Pennisi, Anthony’s first cousin was a Vice President at Carson’s Hospitality Furniture at the time and said that Carson’s had a very run down 73,000 sq. ft. building available at 2400 College Drive, High Point, NC. His wife Kelly took the bull by the horns rented out their dream home and moved the family of 4 into the basement of his parent’s home so An

Anthony Pennisi - a fourth generation Italian Furniture Manufacturer. His parents came from Italy, met and married in Long Island, New York where Anthony was born on August 19, 1969. In 1972, Domenick moved his family to North Carolina to live in the Furniture Capital of the World, High Point. When Anthony was just 12 years old he was sweeping the floors of his father’s factory at Pennisi Original’s 1981. He then graduated early from High School to learn the business and