Market winners

Highlights from the fall High Point Market

By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, October 14, 2007

Durham

Durham Furniture is known for traditional solid-wood bedroom designs, but the company is going more transitional with its Orville & Mead line. This storage headboard bed with bunching piers is part of the Metroplace group that placed well at market.

Four Hands

Four Hands' Montana dining table drew attention with its organic, sculptural shape and distinctive grain pattern.

Shermag

Shermag expanded the Metropolitan Home collection this market with this Enclosure bed. The platform bed features anigre, an African hardwood with a flowing grain like curly maple. It is shown with bunching piers for a wrap feel.

Hickory Chair

The Eton chair with goose feather throw pillow features hand-applied nail trim. Part of Hickory Chair's Made to Measure program, the design can be extended from 33 inches into a 120-inch sofa.

Michael Thomas Furniture

Tom Jordan designed this sofa and settee for the Metropolitan group, which features a tweed cover called Otis from DeLeo Textile-KETS, with London black leather welting and silver nailheads. Retail for the sofa is about $3,999.

Thomas Hahn & Home

Thomas Hahn & Home's successful introductions included this Architect's Desk and Bookcase Dining Cabinet from the Cape May collection, in oak solids and veneers with a honey chestnut brown finish.

Hammary

Hammary's Promenade cocktail table has a design inspired by avante/utilitarian furniture from 20th-century Europe. The piece combines inset beveled glass, a top ring in a distressed and burnished fruitwood finish and a base in linen.

Lazar

The Cecilla sofa received praise from buyers for its creative mix of leather and fabric on the body and throw pillows. It retails for about $1,499 in a starting fabric and for $3,500 as pictured.

Rizzy

Rizzy's Gold collection is hand knotted of hand-spun New Zealand wool with silk highlights. $1,199 in 6×9.

Whitecraft

Retailers favored the Woolrich-licensed Chatham Run collection for its style and craftsmanship. This oversized rocker was one of 16 pieces in the indoor/outdoor debut, featuring ultraviolet-resistant, man-made viro frames.

Stanley

This high-leg entertainment console and hutch from Stanley's American Perspective collection was a market winner.

C.R. Laine

The No. 9665 Charm Chair features a hand-loomed, embroidered wool on cotton crewel created with a traditional chain stitch that is produced by a single family in the mountains of Kashmir exclusively for C.R. Laine. It retails for about $1,566.

Riverside

Riverside's Waybridge entertainment cabinet can be used in conjunction with a wall-mounted plasma television.

Linwood Furniture

This Dry Sink in ash solids and pecan veneers was part of Linwood Furniture's traditional and eclectically styled Hart Square collection.

Lexington

Dean, a contemporary leather sofa with softly modern overtones from the new Zacara collection, was a market highlight. Chair and ottoman available.

Universal

The Kentwood collection draws upon 18th-century English designs. The sideboard, featuring mahogany and primavera veneers, was a popular piece as traditional china cabinets are becoming less important.

French Heritage

The dramatic shape of the 67-inch-wide Marquise Chest, from the A La Carte collection, is enhanced with a dramatic finish and rich wood-tone top. Retail is $8,236.

Butler Specialty

Butler scored with a new mountain lodge-styled collection. Features include solid hardwood that is hand carved to create the look and feel of bark on the legs and accent trim and metal-etched inserts on the door panels.

Taylor King

Taylor King's classic French, exposed wood Beckett chair features Karma Cranberry's 100% silk fabric, a Taylor King exclusive, with intricate stitching and embroidered designs that accent multiple pieces of silk velvet in an array of colors. The chair retails for $1,995.

BDI

The Marina TV console from BDI keeps components hidden behind smoked glass doors, and incorporates several wire management and ventilation features.

Classic Leather

Buyers were won over by the generously overscaled sofa No. 2513, which features embellished leather for an upscale lodge look. With edged box pillow, padded back for extra support and deep seating.

Sphinx

Sphinx by Oriental Weavers fills a medium price niche with the Amherst collection. Featuring relaxed traditional designs with modern color ways, the collection is hand tufted of blended New Zealand and Indian wools. $599 in 5×8.

Habersham

Habersham's Traverser bookcase drew attention with its hidden-door aspect, which offers a way to hide a storage space, entrance to a wine cellar or other secret room.

Home Line

Home Line had success with this bedroom introduction. Features include dovetailed drawer fronts, burl accents and book-matched veneers. This armoire sports carved pediments.

Paul Robert

The Mead sofa features a natural-colored truck tarp fabric from Imagine on the seat cushions and back pillows, as well as a custom jacquard from Craftex, an exclusive leather from England and a 100% jute fabric on the outside.

CR-Home

This oak kitchen island has drawer and shelf storage and is shown with four stools. It is part of the Sundance collection, a whole-home group from CR-Home, part of Chromcraft-Revington.

Hooker Furniture

This transitional-style metal bed was a hit with buyers. Featuring flat scroll work on the headboard and footboard, it is available in an aged brass finish.

Ultimate Accents

This drawer chest is made with 3,000 duck egg shells. Part of the Nouveau collection, it has a suggested retail of $2,000.

Mackenzie-Dow

The Yesterday River panel bed combines simple lines with Old World craftsmanship. The domestic group also includes an 11-drawer dresser.

Johnston Casuals

With sweeping arms and deep back and seat, Johnston Casuals did well with this Pegasus set in a premium pewter finish.

Largo

The Charleston metal bed has a sleigh form and an old iron powdercoat finish. The piece, including decorative side rails, retails for $399.

Baker Furniture

The dark finish of this updated settee by French designer Jacques Garcia is a striking contrast to the white cotton canvas cover. Retail is $5,850.

Theodore Alexander

The St. Petersburg Palaces collection from Theodore Alexander draws upon artifacts found in Russian museums like the Hermitage. This writing desk has karelian birch with diamond and oval accents in lapis lazuli, a type of stone.

Flexsteel

With a distinctive, serpentine front rail insignia, the Rosetta sofa places wood and nailheads side-by-side to great effect.

Twin Star/Dimplex

The Pasadena fireplace offers both eye appeal and function. Features include the Multi-Fire firebox with Purifire air-treatment system.

Sligh

Part of Sligh's new lineup of TV consoles, the No. 9764 unit incorporates Zebrawood squares into its transitional design.

Natuzzi

Retailers liked this transitionally styled stationary accent chair that has the comfort of a recliner. Offered in white or chocolate with matched piping.

Best Home

Barstools continue to get more stylish as companies such as Best Home Furnishings jump into the niche. Best's winning intros included this swivel Margarita chair in a distressed pecan finish with fabric and leather options.

Stein World

The Aberdeen storage cocktail table features oak veneers with a slightly distressed Tuscan finish. Retailing at $499, it's on casters with a flip-down door for storage.

Amer Rugs

Amer Rugs' Oasis collection is aimed at the midprice consumer. Soft open patterns are fashioned of hand-spun blended wools in fashion colors. Hand knotted, $1,599 in 8 by 10.

Norwalk

Joe Ruggiero's Tuscany chaise for Norwalk combines a chocolate cover with apple green piping for a punch of color. It retails for $1,925 as shown.

Broyhill

Broyhill had success at market with contemporary groups like Cameo, which features crotch mahogany and cerejeria veneers in a red Cognac finish. Seen here is a double-pedestal table.

Aspenhome

Aspenhome introduced the Potomac collection in the spring and has continued to add pieces to the successful line. This new nightstand is packed with function, including a pullout shelf, desk drawer with dividers and a StoreCharge drawer for charging phones, iPods and PDAs.

Incanto Divani

This transitional, four-seat crescent sofa, dressed in crushed leather with oversized front rail button embellishments, stirred designer interest. Features include feather-foam back cushions with zippers.

Powell Co.

Powell Co. had one of the biggest hits at market with a new youth collection. The licensed littlemissmatched line allows kids to mix and match colors for an eclectic, personalized room.

Woodbrook Designs/terry Seitz

This leather bed with built-in nightstands was a hit with container buyers. It will retail for about $1,199.

Feizy

The Sebastian collection uses faux silk to recreate the look of classic hand-knotted silk rugs. Machine made in Turkey.

Jonathan Charles

Taking a page from the home entertainment playbook, Jonathan Charles offers a home office desk with electric function. The flat-panel monitor lowers down into the desk on a mechanical lift. The kidney-shaped top is covered in leather with a hand-padded finish.

Simon Li

The mid-century inspired sofa, No. 6222, generated interest from its sloped track arm to its high base leg, button back and round bolsters. Covered in semi-aniline leather, it is $999 retail.

Younger

Younger's No. 44530 mid-century modern, three-over-one sofa is supported by dark wood legs with front-to-back stretchers.

Magnussen Home

This cocktail table is part of Magnussen Home's Brookings collection. The mixed-media elements of the piece, including the leather border, nailhead trim and glass inset top, were a hit with buyers this market.

Andrew Pearson

This lingerie chest, part of the Romanov collection, features Russian reclaimed oak with a light finish that highlights the grain pattern.

Jasper Cabinet

The Grand Duchess console was a hit with buyers. The 74-inch-wide piece has four doors and three drawers. Buyers liked the weathered French blue finish and the function and versatility of the piece, also illustrated by removable door panels.

Abbyson

Abbyson branches out from classic Oriental to floral transitional styling with the Renaissance collection. Hand knotted in Tibet of Himalayan sheep wool and silk. $2,600 in a 6 by 9.

Luana Living

Luana Living gives this sofa a scalloped apron on an exposed wood frame for a pared down, less fussy version of opulence.

Nichols & Stone

Nichols & Stone added this functional chest to its Departures collection. The two-toned piece features three individual drawers with storage cabinets on the side.