DESIGNERS’ GUIDE to HIGH POINT MARKET APRIL 14–18, 2018 Is High Point the new Brooklyn? The Hygge Trend: Cashing In On Comfort The Schedule: 50+ Design Events 9 Designer Matches Made in High Point EDITORATLARGE.COM Cover art: “Bloomsbury Garden” wallpaper by Timorous Beasties; courtesy Timorous Beasties You inspire us. We do it for you. We partner with the best names in the furniture and home textiles industries so that designers can access an unprecedented range of impeccably designed, ridiculously intelligent fabrics. Inspired by you. cryptonhome.com/highpointmarket @cryptonfabric NEWS BRIEF | MARKET REPORT BuzziPleat light by BuzziSpace. below: Sara Ruffin Costello, MARKET Michelle Nussbaumer, and George Nunno REPORT Prepare to take notes: Passing High Point Market 101 means staying in-the-know. A number of newcomers hope to make the grade with showstopping collections. Inspiration awaits at The Mine, Mill Village Collective and The Point. And when given a new assignment, Bunny Williams, Kim Hoegger and others reimagine an English Tudor for a showhouse detour from market. BY MELISSA STUDACH Angeles–based design firm, helmed by FAIR Mat Sanders and Brandon Quattrone, FIRST-TIMERS experiments with plaster, glass, velvets and more in the playful 44-piece Consort A French modernist sensibility meets Collection, on view in InterHall (IHFC, fine American craftsmanship in Consort’s IH202). Danish lighting manufacturer first-ever, fully customizable furniture Vita Copenhagen launches its first North collection. The New York– and Los American furniture collection, an extension of the brand’s signature Scandi The Esquire Home Collection by Fine Furniture Design style and environmental ethos (IHFC, IH401). Fine Furniture Design and men’s mag Esquire are debuting a 50-piece collection of case goods for the bedroom, dining room and living spaces, each one aiming “to reflect man at his best at home,” according to Steve Ross, Hearst Magazines’ global chief licensing director and head of brand development (305 S. Hamilton St.). And connected-home specialists, get ready to plug into Sobro, the “future of furniture” brand that’s debuting a digitally equipped cocktail table (IHFC, IH200). On the Move Home furnishings retailer The Mine has secured a limited-time footprint inside the Bassett Mirror Company showroom(IHFC, G170, G001B). Industry insiders Sara Ruffin Costello, Michelle Nussbaumer and George Nunno contribute curated Detour for vignettes inside the pop-up installation, elegantly outfitted in Carlton V fabrics. Designers Maker space Mill Village Collective returns for its third edition, this time in the Take a break from what’s historic Union Square building. Returning favorites, including modern contract new in design to reconnect furniture producer BuzziSpace and hardwood handicrafter Enkle Designs, along with the old. Located less with fair newbies will fill the industrial building’s 15,000-square-foot ground floor than a half-hour drive from (410 W. English Rd.). downtown High Point, the Julian Price Showhouse, Julian Price Showhouse benefitting nonprofit watercolor design WHAT’S THE POINT? Preservation Greensboro. Twenty-eight design firms, Design is influential, interactive and social. including Bunny Williams Home, Kim Hoegger Home and Lauren Nicole Designs, That’s the point of, well, The Point, a new incorporate their style inside the historic English Tudor–style residence, built by architect Charles Hartmann in 1929, which features original rough stucco and program led by High Point Market herringbone brick surfaces (301 Fisher Park Circle, Greensboro). Authority to help industry professionals network, learn and grow. Located outdoors SPRING 2018 | ISSUE 10 along Commerce Avenue, The Point boasts Executive Editor Writer & Social Media Manager KATY B. OLSON MELISSA STUDACH a six-day schedule of roundtables, live [email protected] [email protected] Editorial Coordinator Editor in Chief, Business of Home Art Director demonstrations, celeb meet-and-greets TAYLOR BARKER KAITLIN PETERSEN FRYDA LIDOR [email protected] [email protected] and more. (Check pages 13-18 for a more President JULIA NORAN JOHNSTON in-depth lineup.) EditorAtLarge.com • @EditorAtLarge • #HPMKT 3 Join MAITLAND-SMITH and HUTTON WILKINSON as we celebrate the launch of the Tony Duquette Collection Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres Sunday, April 15th 3-5 pm - Space MS 348 And Join PEARSON and HUTTON WILKINSON as he provides a lively 1.0 CEU entitled Elsie, Tony & Me Morning libations to be served Monday, April 16th 10 am - Space MS300 2018 © Maitland-Smith and Pearson are registered trademarks of the Heritage Home Group, LLC family brands. NEWS BRIEF | PAIRING OFF Calypso Corey Damen Jenkins Michael Berman Agave Horizon Citron I Celerie Kemble Terrace Floor Lamp PAIRING Nine matches made in High Point heaven. BY KATY B. OLSON OFFEditorAtLarge.com • @EditorAtLarge • #HPMKT 5 NEWS BRIEF | PAIRING OFF Suzanne Kasler for Hickory Chair Suzanne Kasler Hutton Wilkinson In search of novelty and style, 1. COREY DAMEN JENKINS X and Herb Albert, to name a few), has now HUDSON VALLEY LIGHTING collaborated with Maitland-Smith to bring to life a furniture brands like Hudson collection of furniture, lighting, sculpture, and Known for his vibrant interiors, designer Corey Damen accessories either re-created or inspired by the icon’s PEREZ: SIR BEK: MARTA JANA Jenkins will offer up 18-plus fixtures available in a number Valley Lighting and Henredon estate. Our picks include decorative boxes, lighting, of finishes, with his initial group of products spanning 7 PAGE furniture and accessories. Pearson will also be are looking to designers like chandeliers, pendants, sconces and more for his inaugural launching the first Tony Duquette upholstery lighting line. (Suites at Market Square, 200 W. Commerce Michigan’s Corey Damen Jenkins collection. (Market Square, 305 W. High Ave., MS348) Ave., M-90) and New York’s David Kleinberg. 2. DAVID KLEINBERG X 5. MICHAEL BERMAN X LEFTBANK ART New products range from HENREDON “Clean-lined and very sophisticated,” in the brand’s West Coast, best coast? Michael Berman might agree. exquisite floral arrangements and words, David Kleinberg's new work for Henredon is a "Channeling the contemporary art movement from rattan-wrapped floor lamps to 40-SKU collection that includes occasional, upholstery, the West Coast,” he says of his forthcoming dining room and bedroom pieces. (Market Square, 305. eponymous line, the “collection comprises colorful transcendent re-creations from W. High Ave., MS500) graphics and natural pop art imagery that speak to modernism with a sophisticated eye.” Some of that the inimitable Tony Duquette 3. CELERIE KEMBLE X Cali-inspired cool manifests itself in “Agave Palm ARTERIORS archive. Read on for our favorite Study II,” a brightly hued plexiglass piece devoted to Celerie Kemble’s first-ever lighting line embraces some the plant; and "Futurama I, II," glass-framed images collabs of the season. of the Palm Beach native’s preferred materials: wicker, of eye-popping green classic cars. (IHFC, 210 E. rattan, bamboo, and finishes like eglomise, milk glass, Commerce Ave., H304) verdigris and gold leaf. It is also her first collab with Arteriors, a brand that has worked with designers like 6. LAURA KIRAR, BARBARA Barry Dixon and Laura Kirar. Says Kemble: “I designed BARRY AND SIR HUMPHRY WILKINSON: ROGER GANNA JAMES. CHAIR; HUTTON HICKORY CHAIR: COURTESY HICKORY this collection to be very tactile, with materials that pull WAKEFIELD X BAKER 6 PAGE from the natural and the handmade, where coastal FURNITURE informs the urbane. These pieces are meant to add levity Baker may have been acquired last year, but the brand and warmth to interiors—a touch of whimsy or flight of has not dropped its commitment to its stable of fancy, balanced with a modern edge.” (IHFC, 210 E. design talent. This Market sees new pieces from Commerce Ave., H320) Laura Kirar (a 28-piece launch spanning upholstery, casegoods, lighting and accessories, including 4. TONY DUQUETTE X mirrors and a Lazy Susan); Barbara Barry (21 new MAITLAND-SMITH fabrics, produced in mills in Italy and the U.S., as well The late maximalist Tony Duquette left behind a wealth as four new table lamps), and Sir Humphry Wakefield of decor and colorful artifacts at his Beverly Hills home, (upholstery and casegoods). Added bonus? There CELERIE KEMBLE: LEFTBANK ART; CITRON I: COURTESY HORIZON AGAVE COREY DAMEN JENKINS AND CALYPSO: COURTESY HUDSON VALLEY LIGHTING; MICHAEL BERMAN: ALAN WEISSMAN; Dawnridge. Duquette’s longtime friend and collaborator will be new additions to the Milling Road collection, PAGE 5 David Kleinberg Hutton Wilkinson (the duo’s clients included Doris as well. Duke, J. Paul Getty, Vincent Minnelli, Elizabeth Arden (319 N. Hamilton St.) 6 EditorAtLarge.com • @EditorAtLarge • #HPMKT PHOTOGRAPHY ARTERIORS. LAMP: COURTESY FLOOR HALARD; TERRACE FRANCOIS HARRSCH KIRAR: ERIKA BAKER: LAURA COURTESY PETER FISHEL; BARBARA BARRY: MICHAEL VANDERBYL: EARL OF DROGHEDA; WAKEFIELD: HUMPHRY Jana Bek for NDI Michael Vanderbyl Jana Bek Hatch by Michael Vanderbyl for Janus et Cie 7. JANA BEK X 8. MICHAEL VANDERBYL X 9. SUZANNE KASLER X COTTON & QUILL AND NDI JANUS ET CIE HICKORY CHAIR Another Michigan-based designer, Jana Bek has dreamt A “love song to sailing,” Hatch is the latest collection The City of Light serves as creative fodder for up new lines for two partners. For her collaboration with by Michael Vanderbyl, for Janus et Cie, and includes Suzanne Kasler’s latest line, The Paris Apartment Alabama-based textile studio Cotton & Quill, Bek dining ensembles, modular occasional tables, luxe Collection, an array of bedroom, dining room and designed a luxe travel–inspired collection of textiles and chaise longues and a serving cart, among other living room furnishings inspired by the city’s wallcoverings. The tropical-jewel-tone, South-meets-sass naval-inspired pieces. Vanderbyl draws on materials most romantic interiors, and Kasler’s own collection will be unveiled at High Point and will also be like premium teak to “replicate the traditional hatch curatorial instincts—or, as the brand says, “her available on the designer’s e-commerce site.