Paul Secon, 91, Founded Pottery Barn
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Paul Secon, who died February 24 at 91, was a journalist and songwriter who almost by accident founded Pottery Barn, which began in 1950 as an outlet store for designer crockery in a drafty storefront on Tenth Avenue near 19th Street.
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