You’re looking for glamorous places to sell your high-end goods — furniture, for example. When Ethan Allen went looking, according to Furniture Today, its corporate eye fell on Dubai, perfect for a new “flagship store in the Middle East,” and on Raleigh, N.C., also perfect for, well, pretty such the same store. (It opened last week at North Hills.)

Just struck me as funny. But was the N.C. really necessary? — surely they know us in Dubai.

Or they would’ve known us if that Soleil Center thing had gone up at Crabtree Valley.