Hi, Pat:

I've never come across locally sold Gloria sets either.  I live in Pennsylvania.  I had to buy mine off e-Bay.  I have the fireplace you mention, it's a nice piece. I think I probably have the chair from JoAnns that you mentioned, I picked up a couple of them a few years ago and they were supposed to be pin cushions but I thought they looked like doll chairs.  lol  Magals is expensive, which is why I only have a couple of pieces from them (a birthday present to myself).  Their site is http://home.att.net/~magals/  They are very nice people to deal with, excellent workmanship, quick service, trusting and trustworthy, etc.  I wish I could afford to buy more of their furniture, but then part of the fun of collecting 1/6 scale accessories is finding them cheap, which usually means it was designed for other use, like your ladies chairs.  

Robin

 Pat Hawkins <jhawkins1320@charter.net> wrote:

I have never seen any Gloria furniture offered in stores here in
Alabama, but I have seen it in other stores in other states such as
Value City, I believe it's called, in Lou. Ky. (It was at some low
priced discount store ) It's very well made & has different pieces from
anything I've seen in Barbie stuff & the price is low. I got a
fabulous set years ago on my travels,, with the most excellant fireplace
you've ever seen. It looks like black & white faux marble & is large
emough to go in a Gene Scene as well a Barbie. The Gloria doll herself
leaves a LOT to be desired.

Is Magals a store only in your area , does it have a website?

I got some fairly neat Barbie sized overstuffed chairs at JoAnn fabrics
a few years ago, which were meant to be used as pincushions. I'm chair
crazy , well actually any Barbie sized furniture crazy & find some at
unusual places. I got a beanbag one & a couch meant for beanie babies
& at a gift shop, there were these weird statues of languid looking
ladies which also had chairs you could buy for them to languish in &
I got a chair that reminds me of those papa san chairs so popular
back awhile. I'm always on the lookout at cheap dollar stores or Big
Lots & then of course at gift shops for such things Pat Hawkins