Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
It’s that time of year, Gentle Readers! The fall edition of High Point Furniture Market, a 5-day extravaganza during during which 75,000 interior designers from around the world visit 2,000 exhibitors in a small town in North Carolina. It’s nuts. High Point makes it easy to spot interior design trends for the coming year. Here’s …
I always look forward to the High Point (NC) Furniture Market, Gentle Readers, but this year was especially rewarding. My colleague Amy and I were STRATEGIC! We did not mess around. With surgical precision we visited the showrooms on our list and kept our eyes peeled for new resources. We cracked the code on our …
Quick review! Trends we’ve seen so far are: light wood, natural materials, curved furniture, and bouclé upholstery. Here’s Trend #5 of 6! Trend #5: 1980s revival Describing the interior design style of the late 1970s/early ’80s is difficult, but to paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, you know it when you see it. First, there …
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; …
I wish you could have come with me to High Point Furniture Market, Gentle Readers! It’s inspiring, energizing, and exhausting, all at the same time. (If you’re not familiar with this semiannual event, here is a link to the post about my 2021 High Point adventure. There are links to previous High Point posts there, …
High Point. That’s all you have to say in the interior design world and everyone knows what you mean: the semi-annual, 5-day, 2,000-manufacturer, 12-million-square-foot, 75,000-attendee furniture market for trade professionals. In High Point, North Carolina. I love High Point. We generally go in the fall (we just got back), but I’m thinking we may have …
“Have a good market!” That’s what the drivers say when you step off the shuttle buses at High Point Market. What I love is that they really mean it. Everyone at High Point wants you to “have a good market.” The drivers, your fellow designers, the caterers plying you with bubbly water (and bloody Marys), and …
