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Spring High Point Furniture Market images

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To market – to market – to buy a… click on any of the images below to see enlarged versions and a gallery

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What is the High Point Furniture Market like?

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Many of our customers are curious about the big Furniture Market in High Point, NC every April and October.  But, we struggle to explain this unique event.  It is a very unique event.  Hundreds of buildings, some built for market and others converted from another use, vie for your attention.  Thousands of vendors create what [...]

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What new things will we find at Spring High Point Home Furnishings Market?

Spring 2010 Design Trends April is an exciting time in the furniture and interior design industries.  The largest furniture show in the world takes place in High Point, North Carolina beginning Saturday April 17th.  We’ll be there to find new and exciting designs and products for our store and our customers. Click on any image [...]

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by Design vendors win display awards at the High Point market.

The biggest events in the furniture and home furnishings industry are the Spring and Fall shows in High Point, NC.  An annual award is given for excellence in showroom design which honors the most creative and innovative exhibitors.  We’re very proud, here at by Design to point out that several of the nominees (and both [...]

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Back to the future with UltraSuede fabric on your furniture?

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In the constant search for the new and better, furniture manufactures are looking again at ultra suede.  Ultra suede (used as a generic term for a type of fabric) became very popular some years ago and then faded from favor.  There were many reasons, but chief among them were the proliferation of cheap products calling [...]

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“Design Happens” Blog loves Candice Olson at High Point Market

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Design blog Design Happens loves Candice Olson and wrote about her collection at the recent High Point market.  Of course, by Design is the only source in Des Moines for the Candice Olson collection of furniture styles and fabrics.  If you’re a Candice fan, be sure to stop into our store and ask one of [...]

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What’s hot for Fall in furniture and home furnishings?

Fall ’09 Design Trends At by Design we’re fascinated and excited by the color and design trends that are constantly reshaping our designs and homes.  We hunt for news that we think is relevant to our customers in Des Moines and Central Iowa.  We would like to occasionally provide you with outside points of view [...]

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Candice Olson to Judge on HGTV’s Design Star

Hopeful designers compete for the ultimate prize: their own design show on HGTV. HGTV Design Star is back for a fourth season beginning Sunday, July 19, at 9 p.m. with 11 finalists who have tremendous incentive: the winner gets their own show on HGTV.  And, judging for the first time is Candice Olson, designer of [...]

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New from Spring Home Furnishings Market at High Point

In the home furnishings and interior design world the High Point, North Carolina market is widely acknowledged to be the largest, most important event of the year. And it happens twice a year!
Each April and October…

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Ikat Designs add color and vivid life to a room

Specialty fabrics often add the flair or punch to a fabulous room design.  At the recent fall High Point market those specialty fabrics frequently came from ikats and susanis. The word “ikat” means “to bind.”  It is a very ancient way of creating designs in fabric by resist-dyeing (a bit like tie-dying) the threads before [...]

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Susani Textiles for interior design & home furnishings

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Susani (sometimes spelled “suzani”) is the word for “needle” in Farsi, and the large embroidered dowry textiles of Turkic groups are so named because of the many hundreds of hours of needlwork required to produce them. Susani textiles originate in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and other countries where Uzbeks and Tadzhiks share similar textile [...]

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