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Antique & Design Center adds exhibitors for High Point Market

More than a dozen companies will join the area in Market Square

Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, September 14, 2011

HIGH POINT — More than a dozen new exhibitors have signed on to show at the Antique & Design Center at Market Square here during next month's High Point Market.

Karen Luisana, founder and managing director of the center, said nearly 75 exhibitors will be in the 60,000-square-foot venue for the fall show, which runs Oct. 22-27. She said the space will offer a carefully edited presentation of antiques, original works of art and one-of-a-kind finds.

"There are a number of very large, well-known antique shows around the country, and we've walked the halls and trudged the muddy fields of all of them to gather what we believe to be the cream of the crop for the High Point Market," she said. "The extraordinary group of dealers and artisans we are presenting this season - arrayed in one easy-to-shop, indoor venue - is a very special, hand-picked group of exhibitors specifically chosen for what the design trade is looking for today."

Antiques dealers showing at the ADC for the first time include Epping Forest, Bridges Over Time and Summerthur. Other new exhibitors include Micah Gerahty of Hudson, N.Y.-based Character Unlimited, who specializes in reclaimed hardwood floors and custom furniture from reclaimed wood, and Pandora de Balthazar, a purveyor of linens and antique textiles.

Also new are artists Jan Lukens, who specializes in equestrian portraiture; outdoor artist Ron Goins; and Pennoyer Newman, a producer of distinctive garden pots cast from estate originals.

Amanda Lane Kinney, marketing director at the Antique & Design Center, said she believes the center's growth can be attributed to consumers' growing interest in design and vintage furnishings.

"Culturally speaking, we are seeing the rise in the number of television shows devoted to the genre.... We're also seeing social media - the popular design blogs and Twitter - helping to drive interest in vintage furnishings and antiques by new generations of collectors," Kinney said.

"At the same time," Luisana added, "there are a growing number of young, entrepreneurial spirits in the antiques business who have one foot in the antique world, and the other in the design world. They find the juxtaposition of styles exciting, and they are making design exciting for others. Chicago designer Julia Buckingham Edelmann, principal of Buckingham Interiors & Design, who will be appearing in our seminar series next month, is a prime example of this. She integrates antiques and artifacts with modern design, and the touch of old elevates her interiors to art."

The center is hosting a series of seminars for designers and retailers interested in learning more about the category. For a schedule of events, visit www.highpointantiquecenter.blogspot.com or www.highpointmarket.org.

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