SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 13, 2025--
Pottery Barn Kids, a portfolio brand of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE: WSM), the world’s largest digital-first, design-led and sustainable home retailer, announced today the expansion of the brand’s popular Modern Baby collection with 14 design-forward lifestyles. The Modern Baby collection offers distinct aesthetics that each uniquely embrace modern elements of design for a style that is warm and welcoming, while maintaining the brand’s signature quality and safety standards. With sustainability at the core of each collection, the pieces bring a new modern design sensibility with comfort and functionality. The complete Modern Baby collection is available exclusively at Pottery Barn Kids. Customers can add the collection to a baby registry, explore style content online and on the mobile app and set up a complimentary appointment with a Design Crew specialist for expert design tips with modern style.
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The 14 lifestyles span the full range of modern design for nursery solutions that suit a wide variety of styles. From baby furniture in warm finishes with soft, rounded details to sleek, high contrast style with clean lines, there is something for every modern design lover. Building on the brand’s commitment to sustainability, furniture in the Modern Baby collection is 100% GREENGUARD GOLD certified, contributing to healthier indoor air. The collection delivers high style with the signature quality, focus on sustainability and craftmanship that Pottery Barn Kids is known for.
“The expansion of our Modern Baby collections is rooted in the principles of modern design,” said Allison Spampanato, Senior Vice President of Product Development, Pottery Barn Kids. “Each piece thoughtfully reflects a contemporary lifestyle, while focusing on comfort and creating a nurturing environment for little ones.”
For more information and to shop the complete Modern Baby collection, please visit: potterybarnkids.com/modernbaby.
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ABOUT POTTERY BARN KIDS
Introduced in 1999, Pottery Barn Kids offers exclusive home furnishings available online and in stores globally to create kid-friendly, eco-conscious, stylish, and innovative spaces. Pottery Barn Kids’ mission is to bring the utmost in quality design, sustainability, and safety into every family’s home. Products are rigorously tested to meet the highest child safety standards and are expertly crafted from the best materials to last beyond the childhood years. Pottery Barn Kids is a member of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE:WSM) and participates in The Key Rewards, a free-to-join loyalty program that offers members exclusive benefits across the family of brands.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that he will allow service members to carry personal weapons onto military installations, citing the Second Amendment and recent shootings at bases across the country.
In a video posted to X, Hegseth said he is signing a memo that will direct base commanders to allow requests for troops to carry privately owned firearms “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection.”
He said any denial of a service member's request must be explained in detail and in writing.
“Effectively, our bases across the country were gun-free zones,” Hegseth said. “Unless you're training or unless you are a military policeman, you couldn't carry, you couldn't bring your own firearm for your own personal protection onto post.”
Questions about why service members lacked access to weapons have often emerged following shootings on the nation's military bases. Such shootings have ranged from isolated events between service members to mass casualty events, such as the shootings by an Army psychiatrist at Texas’ Ford Hood in 2009 that left 13 people dead.
Hegseth cited some of the events in his video, including a shooting that injured five soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia last year. Officials said the shooter, an Army sergeant who worked at the base, used his personal handgun before he was tackled by fellow soldiers and arrested.
“In these instances, minutes are a lifetime,” Hegseth said. “And our service members have the courage and training to make those precious, short minutes count.”
Defense Department policy has prohibited military personnel from carrying personal weapons on base without permission from a senior commander, with strict protocol for how the firearms must be stored.
Typically, military personnel must officially check their guns out of secure storage to go to on-base hunting areas or shooting ranges, then check all firearms back in promptly after their sanctioned use. Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.
Tanya Schardt, senior counsel at the Brady gun violence prevention organization, said in a statement that Defense Department leaders and the military’s top brass have opposed relaxing the current policy, which was originally enacted under President George H.W. Bush.
Schardt noted that most active duty service members who die by suicide do so with a weapon they own personally, not one military-issued, and argued that there will “undoubtedly be an increase in gun suicide and other gun violence.”
While fewer American service members died by suicide in 2024, the suicide rates among active duty troops overall still have gradually increased between 2011 and 2024, according to a Pentagon report released Tuesday.
“Our military installations are among the most guarded, protected properties in the world, and they’ve never been ‘gun-free zones,’” Schardt said. “If there is a problem with violent crime on these installations, then the Secretary of Defense has an obligation to alert the American people and describe how he’s working to prevent that crime.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
