High Point Market Recap

How to describe my impression of my first time at High Point Market? 

  A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

(It's like when I took my kids to Disneyworld and they walked into the M & M store and their jaws dropped, they giggled with glee and began running all around, touching everything!)  
High Point is Disneyland for Designers!

I drove 5 hours to High Point and met up with my roommates Kim Macumber and Linda Holt, from the Boston area.  They had been to Tobi Fairley's seminar that morning and were bubbling with excitement and information to share. We headed off to the showrooms and honestly never stopped except to take a shuttle back to the hotel and collapse in bed from exhaustion each night and do it all again the next day... x 4! I couldn't possibly see it all, but let me summarize the best of what I did see.

My favorite showrooms were:

• Visual Comfort
• Hickory Chair
• Four Hands
• Tomlinson
• CR Laine

My favorite speakers were:

• Lisa Ferguson and Jennifer Brouwer " Get and Close More Ideal Clients Faster"
• Kimberly Selden "More Money, More Profits"
• Lloyd Princeton " Evolving your Business"

There were unforgettable introductions like Tracy Hiner of Black Crow Studios, Aerin Lauder signing her book at Visual Comfort, Paloma Contreras of La Dolce Vita blog, 

and more eye candy than you can imagine; and did I mention unlimited cocktails and hors d'oeuvres? I can't believe I got sick of 'finger foods'! We finally sat down to a meal the third evening, after craving salad and a substantial meal.

Enough talk-I know you want to see the sights:

Hickory Chair

Hickory Chair (yes, those are 3 IKEA chandeliers in the Suzanne Kasler room)

Caracole chair

Robert Abbey lighting

cool art at Barloga Studios

a showroom tour by Christian May of  the blog Maison 21

a giant rug in process at Surya

unique finds from Acquisitions Ltd, UK

new collection from Aidan Gray home

I could go on and on but I will have to show you more another time.  The textiles, the rugs, all the sexy chairs you could imagine, beautiful lighting and accessories--just stimulus overload for 4 days. It was heaven! I hope you have experienced HP market or get to go in the future! It was a bucket list trip for me!