Sylvan Furniture Co., a 62-year-old family-owned Spokane business, is closing its doors, according to a flyer distributed by the company.


The flyer, advertising a five-day liquidation sale held earlier this month, says the business lost its lease at 1233 N. Division and will be closing forever within the next few weeks.


The closure wont affect Sylvan Self-Service Furniture Inc., of Lewiston, Idaho, a separate company started in 1957, says Karen Shaul, owner of that business. She and her brother, Chuck Dreifus, an owner of the Sylvan Furniture store in Spokane, are children of the founder of the two businesses, Sylvan Dreifus.


Chuck Dreifus wasnt available to comment.


Sylvan Furniture was located in downtown Spokane at 227 W. Riverside from 1945 to 2001, then sold its building there and moved to its current leased location, citing declining pedestrian traffic downtown as the reason for the move.


Sylvan Furniture had 14 employees when it moved to the building on Division and at least initially occupied about 19,000 square feet of floor space there.


The Dreifus family has been in the furniture business since 1886, when Sylvan Dreifuss father, Simon Dreifus, began selling furniture in Colfax, Wash.