[6] The following year, three of those stores were sold off, however Van Elslander expanded the chain in the 1970s and in 1973 the company purchased its headquarters in Warren, Michigan.

A year later in 2010, the company acquired Brewbaker's Furniture, and converted its two stores in northern Michigan into Art Van locations.

[8] Art Van acquired Howell, Michigan-based Mattress World in 2011, converting many of that chain's locations to PureSleep stores.

[18][19] During the liquidation sale, a store in Warren, Michigan dealt with massive, unruly crowds, and was ordered by police to close early.

Gardner-White, the chain's largest competitor in Metro Detroit, acquired Art Van's former headquarters, plus the flagship store in Canton.

At its peak, the company operated 141 stores located in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri and a full service e-commerce website.

[34][35] As part of Art Van's bankruptcy filing, all remaining standalone PureSleep locations closed permanently on March 16, 2020.

[35] Scott Shuptrine was a small chain of high-end furniture stores located primarily in Metro Detroit, acquired by the Van Elslander family in 1986.

[36] The brand was brought back in 2010 as Scott Shuptrine Interiors, a store-within-a-store in select Art Van locations.

[41][42] In 2016, Art Van replaced its regional Super Bowl advertisements in the Detroit and Grand Rapids areas with a thank you message for donors of water to Flint, Michigan, which the company had solicited through its charitable programs.