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The International Gift & Home Furnishings Market® Showrooms: January 9-16, 2018 Temporaries: January 11-15, 2018

The Atlanta International Area Rug Market® featuring the National Oriental Rug Show Showrooms: January 10-14, 2018

MEDIA CONTACT Chelsea Peabody Bohannon Strategic Relations and Media Relations Manager cpeabody@.com 404.220.2141

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AMERICASMART® REVEALS JANUARY 2018 VISUAL DISPLAY AWARDS WINNERS

ATLANTA – January 12, 2018 – AmericasMart® Atlanta has revealed the winners of its semi- annual Visual Display Awards for outstanding visual presentation in permanent showrooms and temporary exhibits at The Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market® and The Atlanta International Area Rug Market® featuring the National Oriental Rug Show, January 9-16, 2018. The at-Market adjudication yielded the following winners:

SHOWROOMS Building 1 Floor 3: Karastan Floor 4: Loloi Floor 5: Amer Rugs Floor 6: Dimond Home Floor 9: Itinerant Studio Floor 10: Europe 2 You Floor 11: A + B Floor 12: Go Home Floor 13: Left Bank Floor 14: Global Views Floor 15: Art + Frame Source Floor 16: Direct Exports Floor 17: Barcana Floor 18: Kaemingh International Floor 19: Season’s Designs Floor 20: K&K Interiors Inc.

Building 2 Floor 6: Coton Colors Floor 7: 3 Marthas -MORE-

AmericasMart.com | 800.ATL.MART | Suite 2200 | 240 Peachtree , N.W. | Atlanta, GA 30303-1372 AMERICASMART® VISUAL DISPLAY AWARDS JANUARY 2017 2/3

Floor 8: Lifeguard Press Floor 9: Vagabond House Floor 10: Park Hill Floor 11: Whole Style Packaging Floor 12: Urban Trends Collection Floor 13: Legacy Floor 14: C&F Enterprises Floor 15: Glitterville Floor 16: Enesco Floor 17: Two's Company Floor 18: Appelman and Schauban Gourmet: Le Creuset Gardens 9: Georgetown Home + Garden Gardens 10: Esschert Design

TEMPORARIES ANTIQUES: Genesee River Trading Home Accents: Anne Neilson Home Fine Linens/Home Textiles: Creative Threads, Inc. HD HOME: no winner DÉCOR Lighting & Lifestyles: no winner HIGH DESIGN: The Type Set Co Gourmet LUXE: Dr. Pete's Gourmet Foods Living & Entertaining: Unplug Soy Candles LLC Garden LUXE: Harvest Home & Garden Holiday, Floral, Baskets: Universal Concepts Made in America: Revelation Culture Global Designs: Talla Imports Handmade Jewelry: Ginger Leigh Designs, LLC Children’s World: The Giving Manager Body & Soul: Musee Boutique: Phillip Allen Hefner Designs Jewelry & Fashion Accessories: Peekaboo Chic General Gift: Tina Labadini Designs On Trend Gift: The Awesome Company Best New Exhibitor: Wants and Wishes BEST OF SHOW: Morihata International LTD

ABOUT AMERICASMART AmericasMart Atlanta is the nation’s only global wholesale housing the world’s single-largest collection of home, gift, area rug and apparel merchandise. The largest of AmericasMart’s 16 annual Markets and shows, The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market and The Atlanta International Area Rug Market in January and July are the ignition switch for global retailing with buyers from every U.S. state and as many as 80 countries discovering product in more than 1,500 showrooms AMERICASMART® VISUAL DISPLAY AWARDS JANUARY 2017 3/3 and more than 3,000 temporary exhibiting companies. ICON HONORS, the home and gift industry’s most celebrated recognition program, is produced and staged annually by AmericasMart.

Located in , the AmericasMart complex contains more than seven million square feet of space. It’s a huge global stage on which manufacturers, designers and sales representatives unveil new lines, launch new designs and introduce new categories – all for the benefit of buyers seeking all that is fresh and first in the home, rug, gift and apparel arenas. For more information, please visit www.AmericasMart.com. Follow us @AmericasMartATL or @AtlantaApparel.

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