In Business of Home ’s series Shop Talk , we chat with owners of home furnishings stores across the country to hear about their hard-won lessons and challenges, big and small. This week, we spoke with Gregory Blake Sams of the Charleston, South Carolina, store Wentworth .

There were moments in our conversation where Sams seemed almost embarrassed by the success of Wentworth, which opened just one year ago . In that time, the business has already expanded its physical footprint, and brought in much more than the $5 per day in sales he dared to hope for last summer. The original plan for the shop was a retail extension of Gregory Blake Sams Events, his full-service event-design business, where clients could pick up the tableware and accessories that make his parties pop. “It all spe

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