November 4, 2025 • 33 mins
In this High Point Market recap episode of Boulevard Beat, Meghan and Krissa dive deep into the trend that quietly defined this season — texture. From nubby weaves to carved stone to leather-wrapped details, this Market proved that homes today are being shaped just as much by how things feel as how they look. We talk about the shift toward tactile comfort, warm materials, craftsmanship, and the way layering texture allows interiors to feel modern and soulful at the same time. It’s the trend that makes the room feel lived in, classic, collected — and it’s a direction that aligns so naturally with how we design.
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- Texture is the New Pattern
Clients are craving depth and warmth — nubby wools, soft boucle, woven leathers, raffia, grasscloth — it’s what makes spaces feel emotionally alive. - Craftsmanship is Driving Trend
Hand-finished materials, artisanal hardware, and tactile detail are becoming the new form of quiet luxury. - Color is Warmer When Texture Leads
Earthy neutrals and rich browns feel richer and more dimensional when layered in natural materials. - Comfort is High Style
From sculptural seating to matte stone, tactile surfaces make rooms feel both relaxed and elevated. - Timelessness Comes From Materiality
If you invest in texture over trend — a room stays classic longer.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to boulevard Beat, a podcast. We're life and style intersect.
I'm designer Megan Bloom along with my co hosts, editor
Chrissa Rossbunt and gallery owner Liz Legit. This podcast focuses
on the daily highlights instead of the hustle, interviews with
taste makers, and personal conversations on how to highlight achievable style.
You con stroll one street at a time, boulevard Beat
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proves the one you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Should take well.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
CHRISA, we are both fresh off the plane from a
fall and tear design high point market. How is your market?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It was good. It was fun. I mean, I don't
get me wrong. I love to see the furniture and
all of the new introductions, but it's the people who
I see every six months who have become lifelong friends,
So I love that. But it's always great to see
what's new and what's happening and where design is going.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I agree, it's definitely fun to you kind of have
just your own little can unity of people and just
to get to know some of those people that you
only see a few times or have become Instagram friends
through the world of interior design too. It's it's a
nice area for community, and getting to see the showrooms
is always a favorite as well. I feel like, you know,
often there's trends that you see, and showrooms all kind
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of hit and miss have similar types of things. But
I feel like this time the color palette was like
very very similar. They all were just rounded in those
really warm neutrals, but warmer and moodier, just your cinnamon, camel, olive,
and just even into kind of some of those ox
blood and into some red tones as well too. But
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it was just used with restraint and it just was
They all had a very similar color palette.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I thought. I agree, I didn't have cinnamon on my list,
but I'm glad that you brought that up because I
did see quite a bit of that. Regarding color, I
think it's so interesting. I saw a bunch of yellow
this time. Yeah, and I think what's interesting about that
mustard yellow and kind of that dirty all of chartreuse green.
(02:10):
Neither of them are anybody's favorite color, like you list
that as a favorite color, and in fact, I think
they're kind of ugly colors. However, I have both of
them in my house because they blend so well with
other colors. They're just a nice accent that looks really
kind of fashionable. And I don't have them in big doses,
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but they I mean they're big enough. They're prominent enough
in my own interiors, in my living room and my
family room, so so much olive green as a ground
too for florals.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Right, Yeah, it definitely was a strong presence at market,
and I think and generally kind of like you bring up,
I think the key and all of that is just
the balance that it doesn't feel trendy. It feels a
little more curated on how it is. But I think
just how those earth tones worked with some of those
jewel tones, those amber, you know, that wine red sapphire
(03:05):
for their punch, that kind of existed well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And we saw a lot of did you go to Baker, yes,
because that really is where the wine moment was.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
There were a couple of those, but I think obviously
Baker one of a kind. Just as you walked in
and that bright red and they're even in their little
lounge area, was just a vibe that was so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It sure was. It's a very that wine color, maybe
because it's called wine, it's a very adult color. It's
a very sexy color. Like you feel like it belongs
in a certain type of room, like yeah, at a
bar or a nighttime kind of room. So yeah, I
think the color story this time was strong that it existed,
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but the colors aren't strong, they're they're darker, they're moody,
or they're richer. So I like that about the presentation
this time, which is a little different going from color
to texture. There were two places that really addressed this
whole Florida Palm Beach lifestyle. And that was the new
(04:07):
Daniel Rollins collection for Memoir Home, which was formerly known
as mainly baskets, but she had a new collection that was,
you know, all of the light ratan natural material and
spoke to you know, if you are so lucky to
live in Palm Beach. That spoke to that. And then
secondly Amanda Lindroth for Chelsea House. I'm not sure if
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you went in.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I did go on there too. Yeah, the little bed.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The bed was so special, it was really a special piece.
So I loved both of those. I thought that they
were of the moment but really well done.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, and I loved it there she had those little
Ratan dogs were just so cute and a nice size
that could work in different spaces.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And yeah, now that's the kind of dog I'm okay with.
And it doesn't breathe, it doesn't do its business, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Bark, doesn't shut.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I would happily welcome that dog into my home, and
I'd even name it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah. Well, and I think, you know, you bring up textures,
and I think Bouclay obviously is finally evolving. There was
less teddy Bear. It was a little more tailored than
it's been and I think just some of those woven
wolves and nubby Linmans gave upholstery just a quiet depth
to the spaces. I felt like I saw a lot
of mohair, which I am great with. It was just
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a very tonal pairing that just had a very inviting
and refined feeling.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I mean, you had me at mohair. Yeah, mohair is
so luxurious, it's so special. You know, it's the kind
of thing I wish I had everywhere, but you wouldn't
really want it everywhere. It's great, you want it to
be that special piece of furniture. But I did see
an uptick in mohair, which is interesting because I mean,
it costs all of these companies quite a bit too
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culture those pieces, so they were certainly investing in that
as a material.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, and I also saw I mean, obviously leather is
always part of the game in interiors, but they also
had a lot of details with leather, like even on
a tufted bench, the cushion buttons were leather and maybe
the outside of the bench was leather, but the inside
was fabric and just kind of some of those unique
details or the contrasting welt in leather as well.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I have a leather moment, but it's not on upholstery.
It was on an accessory and that was at Wildwood Home.
They had this ceramic They had a bowl, a pedestal bowl,
and a lamp that were both ceramic, but there was
leather woven into the silhouette, which was really really interesting
and for an interesting combination of ceramic and leather, and
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they were talking about the process to do it. It was
really fascinating. But that's that's my leather moment.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, I don't think it's we always have to talk
about lighting, because there's always changes in the lighting game
that happen and exist. I think lighting kind of became
jewelry again. You saw so many draping grope lights that
just kind of very large scale and dramatic, and just
those alabaster shades and the smoke glass kind of created
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that mood and softness that was less about sparkle, what
more about the glow.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yes, I think that lighting is that category where anything
goes right, so they can create these spectacular forms, and
it's okay to have that because it can be your
big wow moment in your interior space. I don't know
if you visited Corbet Lighting as part of Hudson Valley Group,
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but the Manaomi collection, I'm not a super fan of
that lighting that drapes, but they had pieces that were
out of this world that looked like big chains and
it was just really incredible. So for anybody who's listening,
I encourage you to look out for that collection. I
can always appreciate when something blows me away. That's something
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that in general I'm not a fan of.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And I think it's that sort of a look. I
think it's just how it's used is. I mean, you
obviously don't want to overdo it. I think you want
to take in a certain space or element and use
it in that so it becomes a little bit more
of the star versus it's a certain look for.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Sure, oh for sure. And it's super interesting to use
pieces like that for commercial work, definitely. I mean, they
certainly belong in boutique hotels and restaurants and that sort
of thing. And look, I applaud anybody who is daring
enough to do that in their own home. It's just
not me. I guess I'm not daring enough, so yes, yeah,
And then there was another line at Corbett slash Hudson
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Valley too, Augusta Hoffman. I don't know if you saw that. Yep,
just super more classic and very elegant in the way
the shades were pleated well.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And I think too, I mean that the cordless game
obviously is still on a high trend going on. I
saw even that they were kind of doing art lights,
which I love that because that often happens where you
are shoot. We didn't put electrical back there, and it's
a way to kind of highlight your artwork or something
that you want and have that cordless option. But they
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were doing it even on a lot of lamps and
things like that, like actual just table lamps, which I'm
a little indifferent about it I'd love to hear what
you think, Chrisa, because it's still kind of a pain
to have to charge those all the time too, and
then you go to turn it on and they're not charged.
So I think there's a place for the cordless game.
But I also think, you know, being able to just
plug it in and have it lit all the time
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is a nice option too.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Agreed. I think that with cordless it's very much great
if it's a solution, it's dependent also on the functionality
of a space that I actually bought two cordless sconces
last week. Yeah, oh perfect, because I have this weird
corner in my living room. It's not weird, it's just
a corner, but I have a table there that I
(09:55):
sit at quite frequently, to be honest, And the problem
is there's no whoever had this house before me didn't
hardwire it. And I'm not going to pay to have
it hardwired. I'm just not. So I bought two cordless
sconces and they're beautiful from Pooky, and I'm excited to
have them installed. But it's the perfect solution, you know,
(10:18):
And I sit there, like I said, frequently, but it's
not like it's every day, I would say several times
a week, and I think when it comes to the
battery life of those, you just have to make sure
that you're diligent about charging them and maybe opt for
if it is a spot that you're going to use
more often than not, to make sure that you go
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for a high quality one that will last, because I know,
like the Pooky one I bought, I think they said
that they would last two hours, and then they come
with a second bulb to charge, so while one is going,
you're charging the other. So in theory you should be
able to keep it with well.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Christ I know often at market there's always like collapse,
which you've kind of mentioned a few of them. One
that I really loved this market was Hickory Chair and
Liberty Fabrics. They had the Liberty Fabrics which is a
UK company, and just have their like kind of eve
when you mentioned before, unique color palettes, just those beautiful
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European mix of colors in them and just historical patterns.
And I loved the big floral chair as you walked
in and that beautiful bench, it just was stunning in
just such a unique color way.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yes, it was in that sort of sharp truth color
that I mentioned a while ago in Velvet. I thought
that collection was interesting again. I want to see it
in a hotel. I want to see it in a
restaurant and a lobby that's just the most fabulous lobby
you've ever seen. I think it's such a statement. I
think it will be interesting to see how designers apply
(11:56):
that to residential living and if homeowners want to live
with all the time. It's so special is that thing
and luxurious that I'm just I'm just curious how it
will work. But I'm such a fan of liberty fabrics
of all kinds, and so I'm fun to see whatever
they're doing next.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I also felt like there was kind of an abundance
of more iron, just more of that hand forged.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Look in different pieces.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Even some side tables that just had really beautiful bronze
on them and just the details that went along with it.
You could just tell that they eight were very well crafted.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That means that the nineties, the mid nineties are going
to roll back again, I guess, because that's what that
was the end of that decade was all about under
the Tuscan sun madness. So yeah, it's you know, it's
fun to see materials come back and they go in
and out of fashion and just how you know they're
I think in the design world we see a lot
(12:56):
of friendly reminders. That's that's what every all design is
really because it's hard to completely invent something that's new,
and so you know, usually it's inspired by something of
the past. So yes, interesting to see that return. I'm
gonna throw out one that it's totally a novelty thing
and it was really fun but so specific, and that
(13:19):
was the Margaritaville collection for Hooker Furniture. Yeah, it's fun
for what it is. I thought there was a nice
mix of the novelty pieces, like you know, furniture shaped
like surfboards. But then the collection that were sort of
the fundamental foundational pieces were really well done, like yeah,
an armois that was super pretty and it didn't necessarily
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mean that you have to live on Key West and
listen to Jimmy Buffett all day. It was just it
was fun and the presentation of it, of course was
fun with the music in the background.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
And mark the presentation was cute. I think they had
a little whale tail side table too that was kind
of cute, and.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The buoys tables, but the sides those were a lot
of fun too, So I like that, were there any
other sort of novelty things that you saw during high
point that weren't an everyday piece but you loved them
well a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I've always been a Baker fan in general, and they
brought some pieces back from some of their older older
collections used to be the Million Road collection. They had
like that ming sideboard and a few other pieces that
I hadn't seen in ages, so that was kind of
fun to see. And similarly, they had kind of that
iconic barber barry chair that has been a staple for
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their line as well forever, and so it was fun
to see those out again.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
On a more serious note, at Theodore Alexander, I saw
this collection and it was just beautiful. It was like
part inlaid, part hand painted over burrel.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It was yes, kind of a floral, yes, sort of.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
General motif yeah, and it was just super super pretty
for something that was special. But again at one of
those foundation pieces, so they they had.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It as like a matching side and coffee table, which
is a little much for me, but I think if
you had the specific one off piece it would be
just gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Right. They had several different silhouettes, and they had a
coffee table, a console, a side table like a sideboard
of a face sort of piece. So there were lots
of options, but I do agree with you you really
only want one. Yes, what about I don't know if
you went to Wendover? Did you go there?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I did?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I love that they're doing. Is you know that they
acquired Freedman Brothers, which is a mirror company. For anybody
who's listening who's unfamiliar, some of the frames that Friedman
Brothers has made available with the Wendover are really fascinating.
There were so many good frame silhouettes that were more
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frame than artwork sometimes that were really spectacular.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I love that too, because you know, mirrors can kind
of be a hard thing because we obviously, even not
just in a living room, orferent areas of the home.
We when we're designing new constructions. I mean, we might
have twelve bathrooms that we want to add mears to
if they're not you know, worked into the mill work,
but we want them to have a more decorative feel.
And so I loved seeing that as well of just
the beauty of them, and even kind of just on
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mirrors too. There was a few showrooms made goods. Specifically
they had that the mirror had like led around the
outside of the frame and the mirror just glowed. It
was just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I was hoping you would say that that mirror was
a star. That was definitely in my top five favorite
things that I saw. I would agree market that was
just a stunning piece. I would love to have that
piece somewhere on my home. Oh my gosh, super.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Special or just a fun surprise. You go in Toto
the powder bathroom and it's the mirror for that. It's
just like wow.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Most definitely a company that I visited that was not
I knew what it was. I just never visited their showroom,
but I was invited to an event there was called
Asian Loft and they do a It was definitely off
the beaten path of the main campus, but they do
all of these pieces from Asia, as the name would suggest,
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but a lot of antique pieces, and maybe they're not
even antique, but they're you know, not in production per se.
Everything is one of a kind, and they just had
these remarkable again, nothing that you would want a whole
house of, but as that statement piece. And I think
so often in design, you know, the fundamental pieces, that's
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sort of the easy part, But what really makes a
room are those special one off of situations that are
found objects and found furniture, that sort of thing. And
it was really good for that. There were a lot
of pieces that I am still dreaming about that I
would love to and in fact, I may make that
phone call in the next week because there were a
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couple of pieces that would be problem solvers in my
own home that maybe living here soon. But it was
just an interesting company that I had never really examined
and stopped to take a look at. How about for you,
were there any new companies that you stumbled upon.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
One new company that I had never heard of before.
It was in Inner Hall, and it was a beautiful
shelf iron company that you often see in kitchens, those
b stro shelves that exist, and had beautiful different colors
of brass or copper, and I loved that it had
extra little accessories that went along with it, just a
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cute little ledge along there and hooks that the pots
and pans could hang on, and it just it had
a beautiful weight to it and it was just something
fun and different to incorporate into some of our bistro shelves.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
That's so nice. I saw those shelves too, and they
were very elegant and beautiful and so well crafted. I
think it's important. You know, high Point is first and
foremost a furniture market, but there are all of those
other catagories that have to be considered that you know,
really help put the whole home together. And so it
was nice to see that company represented, and they do
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do beautiful things. So I would maybe like to write
a story about them someday. I don't know, do you
know Barrett Bergmann Home, Yes, I did. That was a
company that was introduced last time. Their tagline is by
Designers for designers, and they can private label so much
product for designers. So I just think that they're doing
such a good job. They have these wonderful leather bath
(19:30):
accessories that were really great in all of these options
for top of bed that I would think as a
designer might make your jobs easier.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, it's so nice when you have a great resource
just to go to and purchase those things because people
want to. You know, they've got these beautiful bathrooms and
you know, like you said, top of the bed. They
want to finish it off so it looks just as tailored,
and like, I agree with you, I love companies that
really honor the heritage of designers, want to work with us,
and are loyal to us first and foremost.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I think that because over the last you know, I mean,
we can go into the origins of America's fascination with design,
whether it's Martha Stewart or Target when they had all
of their early collaborations. But I think because we are
so more design aware just as a society, that all
of those little elements, those accessories like the soap dish
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and the soap pump and those sorts of things that
belong in the bathroom, all of a sudden, like people.
It's not that they have that good looking versions haven't
always been around, but I think people make sure that
they consider those elements to finish things off, and they're
not just there with their soft soap pump and the
plastic that it comes in. I think people are like, oh,
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I need the good looking version of that piece as well.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, it just finishes it off definitely.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Do you know a company called Poetic Pillow, Yes, he
does such.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
A good job yes, I agree.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Really beautiful and interesting happened upon him a few markets ago.
It's not brand new to me, and I did write
about him a little bit in the magazine. I just
think he does a really nice job and just really
beautiful pillows and soft goods for anybody who's listening. Just
these sort of beautiful florals and birds and sort of
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Dutch painting still life sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, and I think two pillows. We're always looking for
just unique patterns and textures that go along with it,
because they do finish off the space and then when
you get to see it in real life, and a
nice form that goes inside of it, and the quality
of it, and I think those just show so well.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I have a question for you, as a designer. Do
you find it yourself going to pillows that are already
made more than you having pillows made? Like I'm sort
of interested to hear what your ratio is for your clients.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I would say we are way more of the custom route.
We usually are picking the fabric and make having the
pillows made just to get the exact look we want
and the fabric and the pattern. I go to some
of those more ready made ones, probably when you're trying
to stick to a little bit more of a budget.
But like, obviously that poetic pillow is some art on
its own of just the pillows. But typically I'm more
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the customer.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I've always been curious about that, you know, yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I'm sure every designer is a little different.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
On there are so many beautiful pillow man bastors. Yeah,
there are so yeah, and what he does is super special.
What about the company called? It is in Market Square
in the salon And this was new to me last market,
but I went and looked all over again this time,
and it's called The Flowerings. And she does this woman
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and she's she's such a fascinating woman and she does
all of these different things. But she's an actress and
so she was not there because she's on tour well
with this theater group at the moment. But she grew
up in California, i want to say, Northern California and
loved pressing flows as a child. So her artwork that
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she creates, some tabletop and then fabrics and wallpapers are
all based on these pressed flowers, and there's so you know,
pressed flowers is one of those things you do as
a kid in I don't know, girl Scouts or some
sort of crapping and it's like, oh, that doesn't look
good what I just made. But her doing this has
made me fall in love again with that whole process
(23:26):
and art form because her version of it, of course,
is really gorgeous. So I'm very much fascinated by this.
And she had some pieces of artwork on a crylic
that were quite lovely.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, it's a beautiful art form for sure to do
that too. There were actually a couple showrooms they'd like
to have little different activities or kind of promos for things,
and there was two of them that I was in
had art pressing going on as I walked through.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Oh there was another one, okay, because she definitely had
that going on, so and maybe it was her. Yeah,
one piece I'm going to do a shout out to
Universal had a recliner. And I know we've heard this
story for decades already. Oh we have recliners, but they
don't look like recliners. A lot of them still look
like recliners, which is fine, but they do sort of
(24:14):
have that recliner look to them, even though they're not
the big barco loungers. They're much more sleek and chic
and fashionable. They still recliners, but they had one that
was a pushback recliner. It was just really good looking.
The silhouette of it. You would never know you were
sitting in a recliner. And I heard that from a
(24:34):
few different manufacturers that there has been an increase in
the ask for pushback recliners versus the motorized ones, which
I thought was.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Interesting, interesting just for air, just knowing it's going to work,
or I wonder.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Well, and I think the one thing. And don't get
me wrong, I love the motion recliners. I love, love,
love them, just because not only does it recline, but
then the headrest oftentimes does it ome thing. I mean,
they're remarkable, but I will say they're slow, yeah, slow process.
I'm helping a young family right now with the design
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of their home and we were talking about recliners and
they said, oh, we don't want anything with buttons, like
it's going to get broken because those kids are just
going to play button push all along. And so I
was specifically looking for recliners for them, but a few
manufacturers said that they are getting more and more asked
for pushback recliners.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Interesting. Yeah, people love the retliners they do.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And I imagine it depends too on the age, because
some of those pushback recliners require a little oomph, and
if you're, you know, on maybe the older side of
life and don't have that muscle anymore, maybe the motorized
is a better version. But anyway, I just thought that
was interesting for requires anything else for you.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
One product that I thought was really cool and interesting
was in Vanguard's showroom. They had a dining table. They
had it in two different spots and the pedestal base
was wrapped in upholstery, which I thought was really really
beautiful detail. They had a double pedestal that did it too,
which sometimes you don't always see because the dining chairs
get in the way. But I thought just the single pedestal,
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if it was more of a floated table or something
and you can see it, it just had an extra
little texture and dimension. They had a really pretty little
floral pattern on it, but it just made for a
nice little look to the spell.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So I have a question. Then the pedestals were wrapped
in fabric.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The little insects that were so you still saw some
wood and some fabric. It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Okay, I'll have to look that up. I unfortunately ran
out of time to visit that showroom, but that sounds interesting.
And then the top was wood, yeah, interesting, And.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Then they paired it. The dining chair had the same
fabric on part of it, so it just tied in
really nicely. Just a cute touch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
So, speaking of dining chairs, I heard you know something
else that it's just like you ask liver from manufacturers,
is that they had received a lot of feedback from
designers wanting smaller scale dining chairs because dining tables are
so gorgeous and people spend all of this money on
these gorgeous table but if the dining chair profile is
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too large, you can't see the table right, yeah, at
table base.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Well, and we talk about it often too, because as
we're presenting it to clients or they're looking at the
images when you're pulling the images from you know, the website,
and how we put it in our presentations and things
like that, it looks like a focal point on the
on the presentation, but in reality, like you said, it's
just the dining chairs covered up. You don't notice it
as much. In real life as you do in you
know our design presentations.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Absolutely and when you when you pay that furniture isn't
it's not free. So when you pay for it, you
sort of want it to be seen, that's for sure.
Another solution driven situation was for bedside tables, and so
many manufacturers vendors said that they are getting more and
more asked for bedside tables because everybody wants a king
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sized bed. And I thought that was really interesting. And
I know that so many bedside tables sort of hover
in that thirty two to thirty four inch with and
that can be difficult to accommodate.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, and especially in like larger homes or you know
that the kids aren't in or lake and coastal properties
where you want king beds, and almost all of them,
it does become a little bit of an issue to
get both night stands in there sometimes when you're trying
to fix a king So I totally can see why
that's a popular request.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
What about again, I have another question for you, what
is the situation on beds. I'm assuming that most of
your adult clients want a king sized bed. Do you
ever specify queen size beds or is that more for
secondary sort of guests?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
More for secondary I can't say I've done a queen
in a primary suite in a very very long time.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What about twin beds?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Are people still occasionally? I mean, I love the charming
look of two twin beds, so you know, especially when
there's like lots of bedrooms in a house, they will
as well. If it's like a lake project or think
something like that too. If you're able to fit more
people in one room that maybe wouldn't sleep.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Together, right, it does help with us arrangement options, I suppose.
So christ I have to ask.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
You had several pictures at Market and this cute black
T shirt which I thought was so charming. With all
of the questions at every showroom, it's like they all
ask the same things, so I thought it was funny
to put it on a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So I have been attending Market for twenty seven years,
twice a year, and as I said earlier, as much
as I love seeing all the new introductions, what I
really love about this industry is the people in it.
It's such a supportive industry. Everybody has everybody else's back.
I feel like, and you know, after so long, I've
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become friends with so many people. I even stayed in
their homes on occasion. And the funny part, and as
I've learned, this is not just a problem for high
Point but any trade show. You know, as human beings,
we get sucked into small talks. Sometimes we don't know
what else to say, sometimes we don't want to think
about anything more interesting. And there are questions that I
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am asked on repeat in every showroom. And it's not
just me, it's everybody. Right, every single showroom, people say
when did you get here? When are you leaving? It's like,
why do you care? And I know you don't really care,
so why are you asking? I thought it would be funny.
I came up with this idea six months ago. It's like,
next time, I'm putting all of the information on to
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a T shirt, so nobody has to ask me anything.
None of that. Like, we get past that, and I
have to say, I am sort of more of a
private person. I don't like the spotlight on myself so much,
but I think I kind of was the spotlight of
high Point Market. I love that T shirt every day,
and so many people would stop me, even people I
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didn't know they're like, oh, you're that T shirt girl.
I had been talked about in the rumor middle of
high Point. So it was really fun. And you know,
I am going to sell it. I'm going to tweak
it and sell it because I could have sold that
T shirt. Oh funny, two hundred times over while I
was at market. So had I thought about it a
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little more in advance, I would have put a QR
code on the back, but I just I was not
that organized.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Well, we'll have to share it on here so other
people can buy it too.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yes, yeah, we're going to have different versions, one for editors,
one for designers, one for vendors. Because I was told
that the questions are a little different, so.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, I could see that. I guess. Yeah. Yeah, I
love the what do you see? Well, furniture, it's a
furniture mark.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But yeah, people always want to know what I've seen,
and I get it, you know people, And here's the
funny thing. You get to go to all of the
showrooms that you want to visit, and so do I.
But when you're stuck in a showroom, if you work
for one of the man you got, they never see
the lot of day. I mean they are stuck in
that show, same showroom through the duration, and though they
don't know what else is going on out there, so
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it's certainly a legitimate question. It's just not It's like,
follow my Instagram if you want to see I'm too tired.
I'm too tired. So it was fun.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It was fun, well, it was fun to chat about
and share with our listeners, and another good market in
the books, and now time to bring some of these
good ideas into our designs of the future.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Thank you for.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
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take a stroll down another boulevard
Welcome to boulevard Beat, a podcast. We're life and style intersect.
I'm designer Megan Bloom along with my co hosts, editor
Chrissa Rossbunt and gallery owner Liz Legit. This podcast focuses
on the daily highlights instead of the hustle, interviews with
taste makers, and personal conversations on how to highlight achievable style.
You con stroll one street at a time, boulevard Beat
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proves the one you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Should take well.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
CHRISA, we are both fresh off the plane from a
fall and tear design high point market. How is your market?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It was good. It was fun. I mean, I don't
get me wrong. I love to see the furniture and
all of the new introductions, but it's the people who
I see every six months who have become lifelong friends,
So I love that. But it's always great to see
what's new and what's happening and where design is going.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I agree, it's definitely fun to you kind of have
just your own little can unity of people and just
to get to know some of those people that you
only see a few times or have become Instagram friends
through the world of interior design too. It's it's a
nice area for community, and getting to see the showrooms
is always a favorite as well. I feel like, you know,
often there's trends that you see, and showrooms all kind
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of hit and miss have similar types of things. But
I feel like this time the color palette was like
very very similar. They all were just rounded in those
really warm neutrals, but warmer and moodier, just your cinnamon, camel, olive,
and just even into kind of some of those ox
blood and into some red tones as well too. But
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it was just used with restraint and it just was
They all had a very similar color palette.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I thought. I agree, I didn't have cinnamon on my list,
but I'm glad that you brought that up because I
did see quite a bit of that. Regarding color, I
think it's so interesting. I saw a bunch of yellow
this time. Yeah, and I think what's interesting about that
mustard yellow and kind of that dirty all of chartreuse green.
(02:10):
Neither of them are anybody's favorite color, like you list
that as a favorite color, and in fact, I think
they're kind of ugly colors. However, I have both of
them in my house because they blend so well with
other colors. They're just a nice accent that looks really
kind of fashionable. And I don't have them in big doses,
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but they I mean they're big enough. They're prominent enough
in my own interiors, in my living room and my
family room, so so much olive green as a ground
too for florals.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Right, Yeah, it definitely was a strong presence at market,
and I think and generally kind of like you bring up,
I think the key and all of that is just
the balance that it doesn't feel trendy. It feels a
little more curated on how it is. But I think
just how those earth tones worked with some of those
jewel tones, those amber, you know, that wine red sapphire
(03:05):
for their punch, that kind of existed well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And we saw a lot of did you go to Baker, yes,
because that really is where the wine moment was.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
There were a couple of those, but I think obviously
Baker one of a kind. Just as you walked in
and that bright red and they're even in their little
lounge area, was just a vibe that was so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It sure was. It's a very that wine color, maybe
because it's called wine, it's a very adult color. It's
a very sexy color. Like you feel like it belongs
in a certain type of room, like yeah, at a
bar or a nighttime kind of room. So yeah, I
think the color story this time was strong that it existed,
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but the colors aren't strong, they're they're darker, they're moody,
or they're richer. So I like that about the presentation
this time, which is a little different going from color
to texture. There were two places that really addressed this
whole Florida Palm Beach lifestyle. And that was the new
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Daniel Rollins collection for Memoir Home, which was formerly known
as mainly baskets, but she had a new collection that was,
you know, all of the light ratan natural material and
spoke to you know, if you are so lucky to
live in Palm Beach. That spoke to that. And then
secondly Amanda Lindroth for Chelsea House. I'm not sure if
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you went in.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I did go on there too. Yeah, the little bed.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The bed was so special, it was really a special piece.
So I loved both of those. I thought that they
were of the moment but really well done.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, and I loved it there she had those little
Ratan dogs were just so cute and a nice size
that could work in different spaces.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And yeah, now that's the kind of dog I'm okay with.
And it doesn't breathe, it doesn't do its business, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Bark, doesn't shut.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I would happily welcome that dog into my home, and
I'd even name it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah. Well, and I think, you know, you bring up textures,
and I think Bouclay obviously is finally evolving. There was
less teddy Bear. It was a little more tailored than
it's been and I think just some of those woven
wolves and nubby Linmans gave upholstery just a quiet depth
to the spaces. I felt like I saw a lot
of mohair, which I am great with. It was just
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a very tonal pairing that just had a very inviting
and refined feeling.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I mean, you had me at mohair. Yeah, mohair is
so luxurious, it's so special. You know, it's the kind
of thing I wish I had everywhere, but you wouldn't
really want it everywhere. It's great, you want it to
be that special piece of furniture. But I did see
an uptick in mohair, which is interesting because I mean,
it costs all of these companies quite a bit too
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culture those pieces, so they were certainly investing in that
as a material.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, and I also saw I mean, obviously leather is
always part of the game in interiors, but they also
had a lot of details with leather, like even on
a tufted bench, the cushion buttons were leather and maybe
the outside of the bench was leather, but the inside
was fabric and just kind of some of those unique
details or the contrasting welt in leather as well.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I have a leather moment, but it's not on upholstery.
It was on an accessory and that was at Wildwood Home.
They had this ceramic They had a bowl, a pedestal bowl,
and a lamp that were both ceramic, but there was
leather woven into the silhouette, which was really really interesting
and for an interesting combination of ceramic and leather, and
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they were talking about the process to do it. It was
really fascinating. But that's that's my leather moment.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, I don't think it's we always have to talk
about lighting, because there's always changes in the lighting game
that happen and exist. I think lighting kind of became
jewelry again. You saw so many draping grope lights that
just kind of very large scale and dramatic, and just
those alabaster shades and the smoke glass kind of created
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that mood and softness that was less about sparkle, what
more about the glow.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yes, I think that lighting is that category where anything
goes right, so they can create these spectacular forms, and
it's okay to have that because it can be your
big wow moment in your interior space. I don't know
if you visited Corbet Lighting as part of Hudson Valley Group,
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but the Manaomi collection, I'm not a super fan of
that lighting that drapes, but they had pieces that were
out of this world that looked like big chains and
it was just really incredible. So for anybody who's listening,
I encourage you to look out for that collection. I
can always appreciate when something blows me away. That's something
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that in general I'm not a fan of.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And I think it's that sort of a look. I
think it's just how it's used is. I mean, you
obviously don't want to overdo it. I think you want
to take in a certain space or element and use
it in that so it becomes a little bit more
of the star versus it's a certain look for.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Sure, oh for sure. And it's super interesting to use
pieces like that for commercial work, definitely. I mean, they
certainly belong in boutique hotels and restaurants and that sort
of thing. And look, I applaud anybody who is daring
enough to do that in their own home. It's just
not me. I guess I'm not daring enough, so yes, yeah,
And then there was another line at Corbett slash Hudson
(08:40):
Valley too, Augusta Hoffman. I don't know if you saw that. Yep,
just super more classic and very elegant in the way
the shades were pleated well.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And I think too, I mean that the cordless game
obviously is still on a high trend going on. I
saw even that they were kind of doing art lights,
which I love that because that often happens where you
are shoot. We didn't put electrical back there, and it's
a way to kind of highlight your artwork or something
that you want and have that cordless option. But they
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were doing it even on a lot of lamps and
things like that, like actual just table lamps, which I'm
a little indifferent about it I'd love to hear what
you think, Chrisa, because it's still kind of a pain
to have to charge those all the time too, and
then you go to turn it on and they're not charged.
So I think there's a place for the cordless game.
But I also think, you know, being able to just
plug it in and have it lit all the time
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is a nice option too.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Agreed. I think that with cordless it's very much great
if it's a solution, it's dependent also on the functionality
of a space that I actually bought two cordless sconces
last week. Yeah, oh perfect, because I have this weird
corner in my living room. It's not weird, it's just
a corner, but I have a table there that I
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sit at quite frequently, to be honest, And the problem
is there's no whoever had this house before me didn't
hardwire it. And I'm not going to pay to have
it hardwired. I'm just not. So I bought two cordless
sconces and they're beautiful from Pooky, and I'm excited to
have them installed. But it's the perfect solution, you know,
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And I sit there, like I said, frequently, but it's
not like it's every day, I would say several times
a week, and I think when it comes to the
battery life of those, you just have to make sure
that you're diligent about charging them and maybe opt for
if it is a spot that you're going to use
more often than not, to make sure that you go
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for a high quality one that will last, because I know,
like the Pooky one I bought, I think they said
that they would last two hours, and then they come
with a second bulb to charge, so while one is going,
you're charging the other. So in theory you should be
able to keep it with well.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Christ I know often at market there's always like collapse,
which you've kind of mentioned a few of them. One
that I really loved this market was Hickory Chair and
Liberty Fabrics. They had the Liberty Fabrics which is a
UK company, and just have their like kind of eve
when you mentioned before, unique color palettes, just those beautiful
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European mix of colors in them and just historical patterns.
And I loved the big floral chair as you walked
in and that beautiful bench, it just was stunning in
just such a unique color way.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yes, it was in that sort of sharp truth color
that I mentioned a while ago in Velvet. I thought
that collection was interesting again. I want to see it
in a hotel. I want to see it in a
restaurant and a lobby that's just the most fabulous lobby
you've ever seen. I think it's such a statement. I
think it will be interesting to see how designers apply
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that to residential living and if homeowners want to live
with all the time. It's so special is that thing
and luxurious that I'm just I'm just curious how it
will work. But I'm such a fan of liberty fabrics
of all kinds, and so I'm fun to see whatever
they're doing next.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I also felt like there was kind of an abundance
of more iron, just more of that hand forged.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Look in different pieces.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Even some side tables that just had really beautiful bronze
on them and just the details that went along with it.
You could just tell that they eight were very well crafted.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That means that the nineties, the mid nineties are going
to roll back again, I guess, because that's what that
was the end of that decade was all about under
the Tuscan sun madness. So yeah, it's you know, it's
fun to see materials come back and they go in
and out of fashion and just how you know they're
I think in the design world we see a lot
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of friendly reminders. That's that's what every all design is
really because it's hard to completely invent something that's new,
and so you know, usually it's inspired by something of
the past. So yes, interesting to see that return. I'm
gonna throw out one that it's totally a novelty thing
and it was really fun but so specific, and that
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was the Margaritaville collection for Hooker Furniture. Yeah, it's fun
for what it is. I thought there was a nice
mix of the novelty pieces, like you know, furniture shaped
like surfboards. But then the collection that were sort of
the fundamental foundational pieces were really well done, like yeah,
an armois that was super pretty and it didn't necessarily
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mean that you have to live on Key West and
listen to Jimmy Buffett all day. It was just it
was fun and the presentation of it, of course was
fun with the music in the background.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
And mark the presentation was cute. I think they had
a little whale tail side table too that was kind
of cute, and.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The buoys tables, but the sides those were a lot
of fun too, So I like that, were there any
other sort of novelty things that you saw during high
point that weren't an everyday piece but you loved them
well a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I've always been a Baker fan in general, and they
brought some pieces back from some of their older older
collections used to be the Million Road collection. They had
like that ming sideboard and a few other pieces that
I hadn't seen in ages, so that was kind of
fun to see. And similarly, they had kind of that
iconic barber barry chair that has been a staple for
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their line as well forever, and so it was fun
to see those out again.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
On a more serious note, at Theodore Alexander, I saw
this collection and it was just beautiful. It was like
part inlaid, part hand painted over burrel.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It was yes, kind of a floral, yes, sort of.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
General motif yeah, and it was just super super pretty
for something that was special. But again at one of
those foundation pieces, so they they had.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It as like a matching side and coffee table, which
is a little much for me, but I think if
you had the specific one off piece it would be
just gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Right. They had several different silhouettes, and they had a
coffee table, a console, a side table like a sideboard
of a face sort of piece. So there were lots
of options, but I do agree with you you really
only want one. Yes, what about I don't know if
you went to Wendover? Did you go there?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I did?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I love that they're doing. Is you know that they
acquired Freedman Brothers, which is a mirror company. For anybody
who's listening who's unfamiliar, some of the frames that Friedman
Brothers has made available with the Wendover are really fascinating.
There were so many good frame silhouettes that were more
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frame than artwork sometimes that were really spectacular.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I love that too, because you know, mirrors can kind
of be a hard thing because we obviously, even not
just in a living room, orferent areas of the home.
We when we're designing new constructions. I mean, we might
have twelve bathrooms that we want to add mears to
if they're not you know, worked into the mill work,
but we want them to have a more decorative feel.
And so I loved seeing that as well of just
the beauty of them, and even kind of just on
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mirrors too. There was a few showrooms made goods. Specifically
they had that the mirror had like led around the
outside of the frame and the mirror just glowed. It
was just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I was hoping you would say that that mirror was
a star. That was definitely in my top five favorite
things that I saw. I would agree market that was
just a stunning piece. I would love to have that
piece somewhere on my home. Oh my gosh, super.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Special or just a fun surprise. You go in Toto
the powder bathroom and it's the mirror for that. It's
just like wow.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Most definitely a company that I visited that was not
I knew what it was. I just never visited their showroom,
but I was invited to an event there was called
Asian Loft and they do a It was definitely off
the beaten path of the main campus, but they do
all of these pieces from Asia, as the name would suggest,
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but a lot of antique pieces, and maybe they're not
even antique, but they're you know, not in production per se.
Everything is one of a kind, and they just had
these remarkable again, nothing that you would want a whole
house of, but as that statement piece. And I think
so often in design, you know, the fundamental pieces, that's
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sort of the easy part, But what really makes a
room are those special one off of situations that are
found objects and found furniture, that sort of thing. And
it was really good for that. There were a lot
of pieces that I am still dreaming about that I
would love to and in fact, I may make that
phone call in the next week because there were a
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couple of pieces that would be problem solvers in my
own home that maybe living here soon. But it was
just an interesting company that I had never really examined
and stopped to take a look at. How about for you,
were there any new companies that you stumbled upon.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
One new company that I had never heard of before.
It was in Inner Hall, and it was a beautiful
shelf iron company that you often see in kitchens, those
b stro shelves that exist, and had beautiful different colors
of brass or copper, and I loved that it had
extra little accessories that went along with it, just a
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cute little ledge along there and hooks that the pots
and pans could hang on, and it just it had
a beautiful weight to it and it was just something
fun and different to incorporate into some of our bistro shelves.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
That's so nice. I saw those shelves too, and they
were very elegant and beautiful and so well crafted. I
think it's important. You know, high Point is first and
foremost a furniture market, but there are all of those
other catagories that have to be considered that you know,
really help put the whole home together. And so it
was nice to see that company represented, and they do
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do beautiful things. So I would maybe like to write
a story about them someday. I don't know, do you
know Barrett Bergmann Home, Yes, I did. That was a
company that was introduced last time. Their tagline is by
Designers for designers, and they can private label so much
product for designers. So I just think that they're doing
such a good job. They have these wonderful leather bath
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accessories that were really great in all of these options
for top of bed that I would think as a
designer might make your jobs easier.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, it's so nice when you have a great resource
just to go to and purchase those things because people
want to. You know, they've got these beautiful bathrooms and
you know, like you said, top of the bed. They
want to finish it off so it looks just as tailored,
and like, I agree with you, I love companies that
really honor the heritage of designers, want to work with us,
and are loyal to us first and foremost.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I think that because over the last you know, I mean,
we can go into the origins of America's fascination with design,
whether it's Martha Stewart or Target when they had all
of their early collaborations. But I think because we are
so more design aware just as a society, that all
of those little elements, those accessories like the soap dish
(20:23):
and the soap pump and those sorts of things that
belong in the bathroom, all of a sudden, like people.
It's not that they have that good looking versions haven't
always been around, but I think people make sure that
they consider those elements to finish things off, and they're
not just there with their soft soap pump and the
plastic that it comes in. I think people are like, oh,
(20:44):
I need the good looking version of that piece as well.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, it just finishes it off definitely.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Do you know a company called Poetic Pillow, Yes, he
does such.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
A good job yes, I agree.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Really beautiful and interesting happened upon him a few markets ago.
It's not brand new to me, and I did write
about him a little bit in the magazine. I just
think he does a really nice job and just really
beautiful pillows and soft goods for anybody who's listening. Just
these sort of beautiful florals and birds and sort of
(21:19):
Dutch painting still life sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, and I think two pillows. We're always looking for
just unique patterns and textures that go along with it,
because they do finish off the space and then when
you get to see it in real life, and a
nice form that goes inside of it, and the quality
of it, and I think those just show so well.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I have a question for you, as a designer. Do
you find it yourself going to pillows that are already
made more than you having pillows made? Like I'm sort
of interested to hear what your ratio is for your clients.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I would say we are way more of the custom route.
We usually are picking the fabric and make having the
pillows made just to get the exact look we want
and the fabric and the pattern. I go to some
of those more ready made ones, probably when you're trying
to stick to a little bit more of a budget.
But like, obviously that poetic pillow is some art on
its own of just the pillows. But typically I'm more
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the customer.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I've always been curious about that, you know, yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I'm sure every designer is a little different.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
On there are so many beautiful pillow man bastors. Yeah,
there are so yeah, and what he does is super special.
What about the company called? It is in Market Square
in the salon And this was new to me last market,
but I went and looked all over again this time,
and it's called The Flowerings. And she does this woman
(22:40):
and she's she's such a fascinating woman and she does
all of these different things. But she's an actress and
so she was not there because she's on tour well
with this theater group at the moment. But she grew
up in California, i want to say, Northern California and
loved pressing flows as a child. So her artwork that
(23:04):
she creates, some tabletop and then fabrics and wallpapers are
all based on these pressed flowers, and there's so you know,
pressed flowers is one of those things you do as
a kid in I don't know, girl Scouts or some
sort of crapping and it's like, oh, that doesn't look
good what I just made. But her doing this has
made me fall in love again with that whole process
(23:26):
and art form because her version of it, of course,
is really gorgeous. So I'm very much fascinated by this.
And she had some pieces of artwork on a crylic
that were quite lovely.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, it's a beautiful art form for sure to do
that too. There were actually a couple showrooms they'd like
to have little different activities or kind of promos for things,
and there was two of them that I was in
had art pressing going on as I walked through.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Oh there was another one, okay, because she definitely had
that going on, so and maybe it was her. Yeah,
one piece I'm going to do a shout out to
Universal had a recliner. And I know we've heard this
story for decades already. Oh we have recliners, but they
don't look like recliners. A lot of them still look
like recliners, which is fine, but they do sort of
(24:14):
have that recliner look to them, even though they're not
the big barco loungers. They're much more sleek and chic
and fashionable. They still recliners, but they had one that
was a pushback recliner. It was just really good looking.
The silhouette of it. You would never know you were
sitting in a recliner. And I heard that from a
(24:34):
few different manufacturers that there has been an increase in
the ask for pushback recliners versus the motorized ones, which
I thought was.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Interesting, interesting just for air, just knowing it's going to work,
or I wonder.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Well, and I think the one thing. And don't get
me wrong, I love the motion recliners. I love, love,
love them, just because not only does it recline, but
then the headrest oftentimes does it ome thing. I mean,
they're remarkable, but I will say they're slow, yeah, slow process.
I'm helping a young family right now with the design
(25:10):
of their home and we were talking about recliners and
they said, oh, we don't want anything with buttons, like
it's going to get broken because those kids are just
going to play button push all along. And so I
was specifically looking for recliners for them, but a few
manufacturers said that they are getting more and more asked
for pushback recliners.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Interesting. Yeah, people love the retliners they do.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And I imagine it depends too on the age, because
some of those pushback recliners require a little oomph, and
if you're, you know, on maybe the older side of
life and don't have that muscle anymore, maybe the motorized
is a better version. But anyway, I just thought that
was interesting for requires anything else for you.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
One product that I thought was really cool and interesting
was in Vanguard's showroom. They had a dining table. They
had it in two different spots and the pedestal base
was wrapped in upholstery, which I thought was really really
beautiful detail. They had a double pedestal that did it too,
which sometimes you don't always see because the dining chairs
get in the way. But I thought just the single pedestal,
(26:16):
if it was more of a floated table or something
and you can see it, it just had an extra
little texture and dimension. They had a really pretty little
floral pattern on it, but it just made for a
nice little look to the spell.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So I have a question. Then the pedestals were wrapped
in fabric.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The little insects that were so you still saw some
wood and some fabric. It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Okay, I'll have to look that up. I unfortunately ran
out of time to visit that showroom, but that sounds interesting.
And then the top was wood, yeah, interesting, And.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Then they paired it. The dining chair had the same
fabric on part of it, so it just tied in
really nicely. Just a cute touch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
So, speaking of dining chairs, I heard you know something
else that it's just like you ask liver from manufacturers,
is that they had received a lot of feedback from
designers wanting smaller scale dining chairs because dining tables are
so gorgeous and people spend all of this money on
these gorgeous table but if the dining chair profile is
(27:16):
too large, you can't see the table right, yeah, at
table base.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Well, and we talk about it often too, because as
we're presenting it to clients or they're looking at the
images when you're pulling the images from you know, the website,
and how we put it in our presentations and things
like that, it looks like a focal point on the
on the presentation, but in reality, like you said, it's
just the dining chairs covered up. You don't notice it
as much. In real life as you do in you
know our design presentations.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Absolutely and when you when you pay that furniture isn't
it's not free. So when you pay for it, you
sort of want it to be seen, that's for sure.
Another solution driven situation was for bedside tables, and so
many manufacturers vendors said that they are getting more and
more asked for bedside tables because everybody wants a king
(28:03):
sized bed. And I thought that was really interesting. And
I know that so many bedside tables sort of hover
in that thirty two to thirty four inch with and
that can be difficult to accommodate.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, and especially in like larger homes or you know
that the kids aren't in or lake and coastal properties
where you want king beds, and almost all of them,
it does become a little bit of an issue to
get both night stands in there sometimes when you're trying
to fix a king So I totally can see why
that's a popular request.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
What about again, I have another question for you, what
is the situation on beds. I'm assuming that most of
your adult clients want a king sized bed. Do you
ever specify queen size beds or is that more for
secondary sort of guests?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
More for secondary I can't say I've done a queen
in a primary suite in a very very long time.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What about twin beds?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Are people still occasionally? I mean, I love the charming
look of two twin beds, so you know, especially when
there's like lots of bedrooms in a house, they will
as well. If it's like a lake project or think
something like that too. If you're able to fit more
people in one room that maybe wouldn't sleep.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Together, right, it does help with us arrangement options, I suppose.
So christ I have to ask.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
You had several pictures at Market and this cute black
T shirt which I thought was so charming. With all
of the questions at every showroom, it's like they all
ask the same things, so I thought it was funny
to put it on a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So I have been attending Market for twenty seven years,
twice a year, and as I said earlier, as much
as I love seeing all the new introductions, what I
really love about this industry is the people in it.
It's such a supportive industry. Everybody has everybody else's back.
I feel like, and you know, after so long, I've
(29:55):
become friends with so many people. I even stayed in
their homes on occasion. And the funny part, and as
I've learned, this is not just a problem for high
Point but any trade show. You know, as human beings,
we get sucked into small talks. Sometimes we don't know
what else to say, sometimes we don't want to think
about anything more interesting. And there are questions that I
(30:19):
am asked on repeat in every showroom. And it's not
just me, it's everybody. Right, every single showroom, people say
when did you get here? When are you leaving? It's like,
why do you care? And I know you don't really care,
so why are you asking? I thought it would be funny.
I came up with this idea six months ago. It's like,
next time, I'm putting all of the information on to
(30:39):
a T shirt, so nobody has to ask me anything.
None of that. Like, we get past that, and I
have to say, I am sort of more of a
private person. I don't like the spotlight on myself so much,
but I think I kind of was the spotlight of
high Point Market. I love that T shirt every day,
and so many people would stop me, even people I
(31:03):
didn't know they're like, oh, you're that T shirt girl.
I had been talked about in the rumor middle of
high Point. So it was really fun. And you know,
I am going to sell it. I'm going to tweak
it and sell it because I could have sold that
T shirt. Oh funny, two hundred times over while I
was at market. So had I thought about it a
(31:24):
little more in advance, I would have put a QR
code on the back, but I just I was not
that organized.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Well, we'll have to share it on here so other
people can buy it too.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yes, yeah, we're going to have different versions, one for editors,
one for designers, one for vendors. Because I was told
that the questions are a little different, so.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, I could see that. I guess. Yeah. Yeah, I
love the what do you see? Well, furniture, it's a
furniture mark.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But yeah, people always want to know what I've seen,
and I get it, you know people, And here's the
funny thing. You get to go to all of the
showrooms that you want to visit, and so do I.
But when you're stuck in a showroom, if you work
for one of the man you got, they never see
the lot of day. I mean they are stuck in
that show, same showroom through the duration, and though they
don't know what else is going on out there, so
(32:09):
it's certainly a legitimate question. It's just not It's like,
follow my Instagram if you want to see I'm too tired.
I'm too tired. So it was fun.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It was fun, well, it was fun to chat about
and share with our listeners, and another good market in
the books, and now time to bring some of these
good ideas into our designs of the future.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Thank you for.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Listening to this week's episode of Boulevard Beat. If you
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