More interior design trends from High Point Market (Part 2) : Annie Elliott Design

In the first installment, we discovered that light wood and natural materials are strong interior design trends right now. Here are a few more:

Trend #3: Curved furniture

People are “floating” furniture in rooms often these days, so there’s a trend towards sofas and chairs with curved backs. Curved chairs especially have been around forever; there are just more of them now. And most are swivels!

I love a curved chair, but a super curved sofa, like the one from Crate & Barrel below…you really need the right situation. Anyway, take a look:

Gray boucle lounge swivel chair with curved back — Barrel back chair

Curved white sofa from Crate & Barrel — Can you believe I didn’t get an awesome pic. of a curved sofa at High Point? But when Crate & Barrel is doing something (as in this picture), you know it’s a trend

3-legged chair in burlwood and upholstery — Curved back AND burlwood!

Sofa with curved back corner — Half-hearted curve

Curvy 1980's sofa — This checks so many trend boxes. I’m not the biggest fan, admittedly

Shell-like barrel back Deco chair — Curvy curvy – art deco tried so hard to come back in style, and it just couldn’t

Wavy 3-seater sofa in ivory and tan — What the what? Not exactly on trend, but how could I not show this to you? It’s SUPER comfy, unsurprisingly. Otherwise it would have zero redeeming qualities

Trend #4: Bouclé

It is EVERYWHERE! This is a real holdover; we’ve been seeing bouclé upholstery for several years, but now you can’t escape it! It’s a woolly, cozy, textured material…the original was wool, but now it’s made of natural and/or man-made figers.

Every piece above is upholstered in bouclé except one. Literally: cannot escape. Luckily, I like it. (I’d like to see it in more colors besides natural and gray, of course. Maybe that’s next year’s trend?)

Puffy lounge chair in ivory boucle — Marshmallow arms ;)

Dining chair in plaid and boucle — Two-tone. I might have put the bouclé – almost shearling! – on the inside for coziness, but I wasn’t consulted ;)

Chaise in gray boucle upholstery — Bouclé doesn’t have to be white!

Modern lounge chair in white boucle upholstery — There’s so much going on here

White boucle sofa and chair — See? Everywhere

There is SO much more about this year’s trip to High Point on my TikTok account! Seriously, Gentle Readers; it might be worth downloading the app.

Annie Elliott Design is based in Washington, DC, and we have offices in St. Michaels, Maryland, and Middlebury, Vermont. Wondering how to incorporate antique rugs into your design scheme? We provide some tips in this article in Mansion Global.