High Point Market 2025: What's New in Design

0:00Hi, everyone. Welcome to Dear Alice. Today is some of your favorite episode of the whole year. And that is the High Point Market Recap. Sue and I just got home about two and a half weeks ago from High Point. And that is North Carolina. It is kind of the furniture hub of America. And I want to say the biggest furniture market in the world. And this is such a fun place for all designers to get together and to see what's new and what's next. And so our vendors are making things and showing us what's going to be available for spring of 2026. and that's what we wanted to tell you guys that we just barely had a front row seat of.

0:38I know that you're wanting to know too and some of you even came to market because we know interior designers tune into this. So you're going to be feeling this as well and I wish this was a two-sided conversation so that you could pipe in on it. But that's what today's podcast is about. Quick reminder that the Black Friday sale just started at Alice Lane Home. So check it out at alicelanehome.com. The Black Friday deals are up to 30 % off which is crazy and they're also in stock. So you're going to want to take advantage of that. Again, it's alislanehome.com. And then we also want to encourage you to check out our home furnishing design service.

1:11If you have a project that you're working on, it's a free consultation. And they're going to dig in and discuss your project, your style, and help you get that room started or finished. Or maybe you've been hung up on the rug. They are a really great resource. Completely complimentary. You're just going to go to our website and go to the design services tab. Scroll down and hit home furnishing design. fill out the little questionnaire and we're going to get back to you like the same day and we'll be able to assign a designer to your project it's been such a great service and really everybody's so complimentary of it they can't believe it's free so um lean on them if you want any help with this space suz yes what is what is high point market why do we go okay high point market we've been going for like the last how many years 17 years so probably like 35 markets Yeah.

1:58And the high point market is like if we like when you first started Alice Lane, you guys went because you needed to source furniture to like like see who who's reputable, who do we want to actually pick up and show in our space. And it's because Alice Lane was a retail is a retail store and was a retail store. And in the beginning days, you had to go and you had to really show the paperwork. You had to say what stores were around you. You had to have a picture of your store to really qualify that you could even go into certain showrooms. So this really was a big retail game back in the day and certainly up until 2008 when we got started.

2:33Today it's kind of changed where interior designers are what's taken over High Point Market. And you don't have to have a retail store. Some of us still do, but anybody working on their projects and is a designer, has their license, can go and attend and really be inspired on the forefront of design of what makers are making and what they can specify for their projects. Yeah, it's like it's the REM song, Happy Shiny People. Like that is what High Point is. Like it is like a high school reunion because you're seeing people that, you know, like relationships. We're seeing all the furniture manufacturers and vendors and we're talking about trade, you know, situations and how we're solving for it.

3:11And so you're talking to people just like on the front lines of like who's making this and how are we getting into our projects. But you're also just being inspired. So often we're the ones presenting to our clients and like solving for these problems. but somebody's presenting to us a high point which is why we love it so much because we just get to kind of drink from the hose and it's so fantastic and I kind of compare it to like if you're an artist and you're invited to go to a residency and you're around all these other artists and you're like you're different types of artists but you're inspiring each other that's what high point is for us we are getting impressions and there are some showrooms that like really take the time to like really style it and you know show us a lifestyle that just like is so lovely for our eyeballs to look at.

3:54And then others were just like looking at the frames and being like, how are we going to interpret that in our style for our clients? And so it's really, it's just like, it's, it's inspiring and it's brain camp and we're thinking about all of our projects, but overall it's just, you're drinking from the most beautiful hose. And it just makes you really dangerous at your craft. So we were excited to report back on what, what our eyeballs saw at market really felt like was the next thing and I think leading the charge is color yeah for sure we've been like talking about like podcasts for a while like this color drenched how we feel something when you're like saturated in an environment that is colorful and so we saw that at market and people they didn't we saw very few white frames like white upholstery it was all color drenched yep it was so fantastic and what we're going to show you the few standouts that stood out to us was reds full range of reds um we saw blues in you'll be surprised at the blue palette greens also i think really fun and fresh in the green family and then we're going to take you through patterns patterns are huge we know they've been big in wallpaper they are now everywhere in upholstery.

5:08We saw pattern sectionals. We saw pattern sofas. We saw this on occasional pieces. Pattern is huge and I'm excited to take this on. We also saw a lot of dressmaker details along with pattern. So that means you're getting box pleats on sofas. You're getting slip covers on sofas, fully upholstered to the ground, occasional chairs and dining chairs. The finest tailoring. Yes. To like flow match all these patterns because I'm like the patterns and the dressmaking details that is for um the grates like you have to really know how to do the layers to make it look right and so i'm excited to show you those yeah and then the last one is exotic woods exotic woods are huge this feels really like pulling us back to vintage times um definitely the 70s yeah um and then even earlier but these um some of these veneers and the craftsmanship we are in the fine furniture game and the decorating is huge.

6:06Decorating is back. So you're going to be using your trims and your contrast welts and all of the tools of the trade. And the garlands. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. It feels a little bit like the eighties and nineties re-imagined to me, but I think if we're going to do it in a fresh color palette, it's going to feel like, it's going to feel like 2026, 2025 traditional. It's going to be a fresh take on it. That is your goal. as a designer yep as a designer it's our job to kind of like reinvent it a little bit guys definitely we're not trying to make you live in your mom's house again or maybe this is all new and fresh to you um so however you reinterpret it for your client is cats it's gonna be fun and exciting but let's get started we want to show you what we saw in the range of reds okay in the range of reds i like that we said that it's a full spectrum from like pinks to oxbloods and this first slide I just like I love this interpretation of color and specifically this color on a chair frame you know it still feels traditional because you have some curves happening we're right now we're looking at these two these lounge chairs these swivels that have this kind of just like arc you weighted like curve it kind of hugs you um but it's done in like the prettiest like corally like strawberry sorbet yes thank you that's gorgeous like a sunset it's so it's just so fresh you know what I mean it's not that pottery barn red from 1990 it's not you know when everybody did like one red wall this is like a fresh summery I don't know it just put these in my living room like it's not just for a little girls room guys like the the richness of the color yeah the richness of the color is so so spot on I think that that that I think is what we saw is like the depth of color it's not flat color on any of these like spectrums it is like depth and I loved these chairs shout out to Highland House for those chairs I know it's one of their best-selling silhouettes and I know that Lee who picks their fabrics works really really hard at trying to find the best mills that are doing it right and so I always love to see Highland Houses take not only on their frames and their scenes and they always have really great original art but I always love how Lee pulls fabric together and these this color was really a cool take on red.

8:14So great. Okay. This next one is actually in the Baker showroom. And this is like, I think an archive McGuire frame, but I think everybody is candy coating. They're all like, and what I mean by that is they're offering you to customize the frame in any paint color, you know, so Sharon Williams, Farrow and Ball, Benjamin Moore, like the, you can kind of select, you know, whatever color of the rainbow that you need to be in that room to really highlight the piece and you get to tell it to them and they'll spray it in that color so this chair I think again she's the cool girl at the party you're just gonna look at her not too comfortable but she's pretty she's your high heels she's real pretty yeah and just like cool vibe I think again when I think like this feels very 70s to me I agree so I'm like that's that little bit of 70s that we are feeling so I love we love that um this next one hi this is probably I think one of my favorite scenes as far as color combinations happen this was in hickory chair and this was in the hable the hable section and the walls were kind of in this like peachy orange terracotta earth color and then they had this like amazing i can't remember if it was a sofa section i was just like so taken by this whole corner the sofa that's just in this like really kind of fresh woven pink color but then you get that kind of raspberry again sorbet color happening on pillows and just that triage of color was like everything I think everything I think to having the pillows be in the exact same fabric this would have been really tempting to want to use a pattern or different colors but the fact that they use the same Italian velvet on all the pillows so you're just getting a sort of a shape shifting you're getting a 22 inch square pillow with an orb pillow all in the same felt very disciplined and very chic yes where this could have gotten fun and playful really fast but it just feels sophisticated yep and then on the other side of this like it kept going and all the pillows were in that same velvet in different shapes totally and in a world right now where you're seeing a lot of color come in and a lot of pattern and a lot of gloss and then your rug's going to be a pattern too it's like the old country song you got to know when to hold them and you got to know one to fold them yep you got to know when to walk away you got to know when to run keep going I like that but do you know what I mean like kudos to Habel I know for knowing when to hold them I know because I felt they felt I bet they felt some peer pressure in the world of decorating you could have decorated the hell out of this and I'm just so glad that they didn't you held in fact the discipline of it makes it chic yes but that's that is going to be the job of designers going forward because you got a lot of things at play and there's a lot of tricks to be had and you're going to be seeing that you can put a skirt on things, a pattern on things, you can candy gloss a thing.

10:56You've got to really have the discipline to figure out exactly who your client is in this mecca of decorating. Because we've been able to really get around with a lot of neutrals, which feels disciplined. So now you've got to figure out your discipline with color and pattern, right? And shape and form. And you've got to really do a study on this. And it's a new muscle and you're going to have to figure out when to flex and not to flex, but you've got a lot of tools here to play with. And I will say the number one thing that people ask us is like, what is timeless? Knowing when to hold them is timeless.

11:35When you have a patterned wallpaper and you have a pattern on all these things, like you got some big commitment. These are expensive decisions that if that is your look and you love that, go for it. And if you feel like you're going to love that forever and always go for it but if you can reinvent it and through your lens with color blocking and still have the wallpaper and still have the rug and everything like that is i think that that's going to be the fresh take that we need to like make sure we're employing don't just like hop onto the pattern wagon and say we have to have everything pattern like no one to hold them right like just said will rogers no kenny rogers thank you thanks kenny okay all right this next one is just this darling little table again these candy coated colored tables were seen and I think it gives a real fresh freshness to the patterns yeah you kind of need these forms yep you're gonna see a lot of the furniture makers which are just making their same silhouettes available now in any color way like Suze is saying so not only is color back but color with sheen is back and that's why we're calling it candy coated is because you get this glossy effect and and this is a way to kind of skirt by needing to completely repaint your whole room is like let's just bring in some of the glossy finishes right so let's do it with paint on case goods let's do it in if we're using a velvet let's make sure it has a sheen right we're kind of done with those dry fabrics those super dry wovens and things are just they're lifting a little bit and they're helping to reflect the light and you're getting this dressier effect yeah yeah and it feels great it does it was fun to be in yes these next two scenes were ones where like the showroom did a really great job at like preaching this story of the color drench and of just like just the richness i think this first and these are both from baker and the fact that like both these upholstered sofas were done in this oxblood color i thought was like everything yeah like i would have been so sad if those were split down the middle in different fabrics yeah and then that the art also spoke to I know oftentimes we'll say the art you know it should talk to it but it doesn't need to say the exact same story but this was a beautiful both of these next images that we're showing you I think the fact that the art is so true to what's happening on the ground is like amazing I think it gave it a focus yeah yeah and there's a real discipline in this next scene we're in Baker and this is a color drenched scene and we're in various shades of the same of the same well we're in various shades of red I'll say and I think walking into this I felt was very sophisticated we've got a low um sectional in this it's almost like a long banquette biscuit tufted the pillows are biscuit tufted they're boxed and it's all in this really beautiful really dark red fabric it's a woven and then the wall color behind it is another shade of red that has a little more orange in it the artwork big beautiful red print and then it has a black frame a beautiful white surround and then we had a kind of ottoman was another shade of red with a bit of oxblood stripe down the middle so varying shades of red which kept it interesting as a color drench but the discipline in this scene and the sophistication were so good i had to sit here and just stand and needed to feel it with my body as a designer and go this is chic yeah this is fully full-blown color there's not a neutral in the scene but I love the way it felt and I just you just have to experience these things as a designer to have confidence to be able to fully go all in with the space it was moody it was rich I just loved it you you had to pull your camera out you were experiencing something really great and in spaces like this it was almost like the art inspired the whole palette yeah they started with the art and then it went from there which brought a really great focus and it can to that piece.

15:28Yeah the rug can the art can it can totally inspire that shade you can get your paint deck out and throw it down on top of a rug or on top of a piece of art and really dial in that spectrum of colors you want to use in this case red. You know why we like it so much is it's just like it's a color block but all in that same tone. Yeah have you ever given a gift that's instantly become someone's favorite the one that they can't stop using I'm here to tell you the bubble cuddle blanket is on my list. It has this really cool high pile faux fur mid-weight construction. I've never seen a faux fur blanket do this before, but it's instantly luxury.

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17:16There was more blues than yellows. And I was just like, okay we're and it's again it's forecasting spring what yeah what was interesting was this wasn't your navy blue um you could make a case for oh sure this is all jewel tones it's red it's navy it's emerald it wasn't this shade of blue is that icy italian light blue it's like the light color of denim that you wear in the summer and again forecasting spring like you're saying but it was a fresh take on blue there was also a dot of turquoise in the water if you will it's a little bit i mean if you if you look at the first image that we're showing up on the screen this is like your classic light denim sort of color of blue and there's sort of a spectrum the chair is a little bit more saturated and then you've got blues in the rug and you can see that striped ottoman and that's a really good example of pattern um playing with pattern right and then the second image this is where you get a little dot of teal in the blue which is actually really exciting to me and feels fresh and this is what i'm talking about when we're going to take on traditional let's do it in a fresh palette because then it's going to feel like 2025 traditional instead of 1990 traditional.

18:23So I think they've done a great job here. We're sitting atop an ooze shack. They've made it fresh with a glass table, brass edges, and then we've got an armless sofa with bolsters. I will say the bolster is the king of pillows right now. Oh my gosh. We didn't even talk about that, but didn't you just see the bolster everywhere? For those of you that don't know what the bolster is, it's that tootsie roll shaped pillow it's that long cylinder it's got piping on both ends and here in this scene it's a self fabric same as the sofa very disciplined very chic kind of back to the hable thing of just like using that same color over and over and over again on the pillows yeah you don't have to go crazy pattern play which i do think the 80s and 90s would have done a really patterned pillow they might even put a ruffled edge on it or something like that on the end might 10 times Which gets a little dollhouse, right?

19:12You can go that way if you love that and that's exciting to you and you haven't seen it before. Or you can be more disciplined with it and just lean into the tailoring, keep it all in the same fabric or do another color drench moment, but you don't have to use pattern. That's, I think, a fresh, more contemporary version of the traditional trend. yeah but like I we all gravitated toward the sofa and we all like sat in our section it was really great actually yeah I felt like it was a great party do you want to know what this isn't the first time we saw an armless sofa either at market yeah I don't know I don't know if that's going to be a thing I just thought I'd say that out loud that we continue to see armless sofas from several vendors yeah I think it's especially like party goers like I don't know like this is this is a party sofa like you can kind of like come in escape easily if it's in a bad conversation the irish goodbye good goodness there's not an arm here to block my exit but there is something cool about it and i think that feels very 70s yes as far as like the ease in ease out yeah yeah non-committal it is it's so good but the color tones were there on this next slide we're seeing like this darling little like side chair frenchy block and tapered leg again back to slipper chair chair yeah it's so pretty because again I will say a white frame makes it feel fresher than a dark frame on when you're using colored upholstery like I will most of both of us will opt usually for a lighter frame than doing a darker frame just so it freshens up and it doesn't go stodgy we've been known to use a white dining table instead of a dark mahogany one just to keep it fresh yeah right yeah totally yeah so you can play around with your finishes everybody's down to do that and you're going to want to just again 2025 traditional yep yeah I love that the next one again just blue upholstery just real and I love this tone of it this is this almost reminds me of my son's colored walls it's that melatonin that has a little bit of violet in it so it's a fresh blue and that's why we can't did you call it melatonin with a dot of violet called yeah you called my boys walls melatonin and every time I go and I'm just like oh it's so good it's like I just like douse myself with melatonin and magnesium.

21:15Vitamin M. That's what this color is. It is. It's like sleepy time tea. Yes. It's enough violet to just like make it complete like a dose of like calm for your brain. Totally. It's so good. So again. Okay. And then just rugs. We kept seeing like all the rug vendors had just like blue happening. Totally. And a full spectrum of blues to play in. You've got some greens that you can see too. Some yellows. so whatever it is that you want to pull out um you can have a lot of fun with that you saw in that last one a little bit of that pistachio green which has been so hot this year and you could see a pair of slipper chairs in that pistachio green feeling really really young and fresh but still being in that traditional vein and on this left one like go ahead and do that lemon sofa yes that would be amazing that's your job it's your job to do the lemon sofa on that rock.

22:05Please do. Yes. We would love to see that. You're welcome. Send us pictures. I can't wait. Okay. This next slide is from the actual, like when the antique sector of the market and just, again, that color, you almost like snap seeds up for yourself. My gosh, that just turns me. Oh, I just love that. I feel alive when I see it. It's really good. You have a coat that color. It's like, um, cobalt or, um, what's that really beautiful? Eve's, Eve's Climb Blue almost. fine almost not probably not quite as cool but there's like the sarunian something to it it feels magical like the like the seas of capri i was just gonna say greek it feels greek but but on a french silhouette yes i love it i feel alive when i see that when i saw this and then just like this like needlepoint little tapestry number yes i'm like that's the little vintage that we all need my gosh i feel like alice needs to develop a really low ottoman like that just for your My favorite.

22:57Just for your little five foot four frame. Just a little tuk-tuk. Just something to set your feet on. Yeah. Just like lift the legs so your thighs look thinner. You know you do that, ladies. And also you want the support in your lower back. Exactly. Thank you. You're welcome. Totally. Okay, green. Let's go to green. Suze's favorite color. I love green. Yes. It's so great. And it was so fun to see some of these frames douse. We've seen them in red. We've seen them in other colors from these vendors. But they went ahead and did it in a high lacquer green for me this year. And I'm so happy about it.

23:25I want to give a quick apriche for the shade of green that is popping up. This is not emerald green or hunter green from the 90s. This is like this fresh lily pad green. What color would you call this, Suze? I don't know. It's like somewhere between like moss with like the dark part of the celery. And I don't know. It's a fresh take. It's really fresh. But there's something kind of old school cool about it also, but in a fresh way. But also thank you for making it high gloss because that also gives into the freshness. I know. Yeah. If it was matte, it would look like pea soup. Worst ever. Oh my gosh.

24:01Yes. But the fact that it's glossy, like it has cool factor. Yes. And it just feels fresh. Again, I just love this. This is Highland House. This is a case goods that they've already offered. They're just offering them in these beautiful candy coated, any color under the sun, any Benmore color, any Sherwin-Williams, whatever you want. They're going to high gloss these for you. And this is a really great trick to get these into your spaces. Here's a couple of upholstery pieces that we saw in this like really rad green mohair. Kind of same tone as those case goods. Almost like lima bean green or pistachio green.

24:34Love that. And the whole thing was like the legs on this piece all upholstered. Fully upholstered. Same thing with like this other little Kelly green mohair. Shout out to the 60s and 70s for the fully upholstered leg. That's another tailoring trick. So again, these furniture makers are on point. They're doing things the hard way. this is not easy we saw a four poster bed fully upholstered in stripes so hard a vertical stripe going the full height of eight feet for this four poster bed they turned that stripe that small stripe so good yeah so good this shade of green this is mark sykes um we're a really blue green here it's like a traditional broadcloth looking um southern about that i do too yeah i do too yeah um but he's got like his fresh take is the white welts and the white buttons and it definitely definitely feels like a southern porch or a southern living room yep here's a couple pieces in green also leather we saw a lot of leather in general guys are we in the mood for leather no i was just slipping and sliding on all the all the leather things i saw it and i was like i see you but i don't want to talk about it yet okay it's too soon okay let's bypass we don't have to no but what was your take on it did you like seeing it here i feel like it's their job to push the needle the needle these designers on a bed i on a bed again slippery um but i think thanks for that love anyway i like we always say like you got to get some skin in the game so in every room whether it's an ottoman or a chair or something we love to see some leather in it just for like variety of textiles and things um so i i like it i don't know if i want a whole sectional out of leather i definitely don't want a loose cushion out of leather i want it to be tight yeah again we've all sat on like the loose cushion seat and it's just like yeah or it's like you go your back like also just decompresses it and it feels weird doesn't feel quite right so i like leather i like it on a tight seat um just gotta gotta check if you slip off man like that's it just becomes slippery so the bed actually i think is a good if you want some leather in your bedroom the bed actually is great because you're gonna have pillows in front of it anyway also and i think it's crisp let's just talk about that beautiful color combination oh damn hickory chair this is again Susan Habel's collection through them she's made this bed before she's just doing it in a new way and we are looking at a really deep moss green I would say yeah so pretty yeah leather headboard and it's against sort of a baked terracotta looking wall the art looks fantastic with it that fresh combination is great actually it's kind of giving me a little bit of 90s feels because mom I see you and I remember the mint green and peach bathroom from the 80s yeah so that combination same thing with blue and brown was like a big combo in like the late 90s early 2000s these are combinations that just work and this feels fresher than mint um seeing it in this darker green but i'm kind of digging it with and the profile's crisp i think that's the difference between like the 90s and like now just like it's our job to make sure that if we're going to do these color combos we clean up our profiles and make them cool yeah i kind of modernized it Yep.

27:37So good job, Havels. I love that. And then guys, we, this rug, we all just kind of like gasped and stopped in our tracks and we ordered some for the store, I think, right? These are one of a kind. So if you're not, if you can't see this, we always hit vintage rugs first because we want our first pick of the litter of these. So we were able to grab a couple of runners with almost look like Swiss crosses on it. And they're done in shades of green and yellow. And I could see this in a ski house. I could see this in your house. I could see this in any house that needs a little vintage shot and a little bit of color and pattern like a great scarf or something no there's something just super cool about having that float down a hallway oh and then Moroccan sort of that high pile also feels 70s you know that sort of shaggy yeah loose easy I'm cool I'm a good time yeah yeah I like the attitude that this will add to a house you too okay pattern let's talk quickly about pattern we've been seeing that kind of like float around Instagram and all the shelter magazines for a while that pattern is the next big thing we saw this it is true yeah um pattern is is it's going to be its own discipline it's really hard for me so far to I don't wear pattern I notice I'm like you're saying a color blocker um I feel like there's a lot of sophistication in choosing one thing and making it like your hero um or knowing how to complement it so pattern is all of a sudden like whoa whoa whoa just a minute it's like the sofas are wearing wallpaper now.

29:02So it's going to take a new set of eyes to really understand pattern. I really liked how, I think it was Highland House here, they used the exact same pattern on the chairs and the sofa. I did love this. And I thought that was a really fresh take. This is kind of an ecot, if you will, which was just sort of a textural stripe. And you can really feel it in the weaving, which I think made it feel expensive. It was not a print, it was a woven pattern. And I think the quality of patterns are going to be really important as you get into this game. Yeah. As using great fabrics and here's the weird part you guys we're in a place where there's not extraordinary ability to find great great fabrics from what we're understanding as we talk to those people that are selecting the fabrics for the different showrooms they're saying it's not like it used to be the mills that did that were closing down there wasn't the demand for it so when you do find a great pattern it's probably going to be expensive if it's made in a great way and so you're going to want to celebrate that whether it be on a whole sofa or you're just doing it on a slipper chair or something like that we know how precious patterns are and how hard they are to get especially if they're made in great um taste great yarns and great taste and whatnot so we just wanted to take a minute to show you guys how we saw pattern done really really well this one was a highland house the one the next one we're showing you is also highland house this is on an ottoman and i feel like this has alpaca in the mix and we're looking at um i will say the colors are almost like a biscuit ground and then we've got a beautiful lavender paired with a moss green yeah and that combination of colors could just inspire an entire room entire room and again back to like the hand of it is going to be so important because if that was just like a flat printed cotton like I probably wouldn't have taken a picture of it no at all but because there was so much depth in the actual like milling this is fashion it's fashion and it's incredible yeah it would change a room here's pattern on pattern okay so hickory chair is now doing a collaboration with um liberty fabrics liberty of london fabrics and they were so great and again back to your thing of like having to do a com which means customers on material that means that you're buying more expensive fabric that you like from this fabric mill and sending it to the furniture manufacturer they went ahead and like pulled in a company to help them do it in-house and which I think is really really smart because it was the only one they saw do that.

31:21And these are exclusive to Hickory Chair and so Hickory Chair spent a good deal of their showroom just showing the Liberty of London fabrics on their silhouettes and the marriage changed the look of Hickory Chair. It's amazing to see what fabric can do for a frame and these frames were already familiar to us and all of a sudden they felt brand new again because not only were we seeing color and we're seeing pattern but then we're also having a top a glossy velvet these things were showstoppers it was amazing but fashion house a lot of chinozery i think so too and almost storytelling happening on this laurent barstool on the right with this really cute little pagoda scene and boats in the water and cherry blossoms in the trees and anyway just really really fun and interesting and decorating's back y 'all you know cool factor though is the fact that they color they color blocked these panels back here and the scene of it and they have this like little eggplant completely saturated modern table with it and like that those things kind of like made that whole scene win they freshened it up yep made it young yep exactly okay this next one liberty of london on this like what do you call that like a laquad um anyway this is like beautiful again that fabric it's just fun to see it like upholstered and like how would we interpret it into a space you know probably with a lot of depth i think if you put this in a white space it would just look old but if you had a shade of you know the red or like a deep ochre or something you know like then it becomes cool you know it feels like you could sit in the middle of like a dressing room yes or something like that or an amazing closet yes okay we did see a lot of things happening with pattern shades again I think you likened this one this is from Julian Chichester they did such a fun job like their whole showrooms like always one of our favorites but it's just again I think it's just that vintage quality of just like being able to kind of like pattern shades and I'll also say um visual comfort did um a collaboration with Schumacher and they're making I think you can get any of the shades made in Schumacher fabrics so you can com shades if you will from there and then they also have these really great big beautiful um almost felt like hot air balloons but they're orb lights out of schumacher fabrics with really beautiful grass rails over the top of it um so a lot of decorating tricks a lot of pattern a lot of resources of fabrics now that you can put on those shades to give it those custom details so you don't necessarily have to find a workroom to work with unless schumacher or some of these aren't in your client's taste range but it is going to be more readily accessible accessible to have these decorator tricks available to you and again just here's a couple more patterns i love again back to geometry this is a sofa in this like small little velvet stripe and again it's pattern but it's a smaller pattern so therefore far away it reads a little bit more like solid yeah so if you're just warming up to the fact and you still want to like this is something I think I would probably do and then I would do like colored pillows you did do that I did actually do that thank you for reminding me thank you yes yes that happened this next one is the starling little tulip chair again the tailoring of it like when you have a good workroom to do something like this it's beautiful as an accent table so pretty these are both Wesley Hall yeah and I think tailoring is definitely at the top of their list of things that they dominate at and with pattern you want a great workroom that can flow match you can see on this diagonal stripe sofa that not only is the cushion across the top of it but then down where you get into the boxed cushion it's going to exactly flow match that diagonal strap on stripe onto that and you want a workroom that can really do the hard work of flow matching and it's something that Wesley Hall's always been really great at and they're great at fabric and all of it so shout out to them they looked they looked really good oh good okay dressmaker details let's Tell them about dressmaker details, Jessica.

35:22Yeah, so we touched on this a little bit, but this is same frames that you are used to getting from a lot of your furniture makers, but now they're made with skirts. So your sofas might have box pleats. You might have something that's slip covered that drapes all the way to the ground. You can do that in a modern way, like the image that's on the screen right now. This is Tara Shaw through Century. She had this really great silhouette that is not fussy. It almost feels like a contemporary silhouette, but completely draped to the ground in linen just felt so chic. Don't you think? She also had a couple of these in like a leather.

35:56She did with like a little. She had and skirted it with leather. Yes, with like a little pinched pleat on the back. Lovely. I've never seen a slip covered leathered tailored like that. It was in a nubuck leather and she made it in charcoal or natural, I believe. And it only comes like that because they mastered how to do it. My gosh. You shouldn't change perfection. It was perfect. Yeah. So good. So good. contrasting this last image where it's just completely dressmaker to the ground two box pleats on the back just to allow the the legs to do their thing over to the right um this one is also in century yeah and we've got a traditional box pleated skirt running all the way around it just like you'd see on a bed skirt you know what i mean so i don't know if it's like every six or eight inches you've got a box pleat a camelback silhouette which i have not seen since the 90s bolster pillows this is back y 'all okay these next dressmaker details this odd i thought this was just done really really well again the flow matching you can kind of see this green round ottoman it's been mitered at the top and then have those diagonal stripes then go down to the skirt with the tape stop like that's all the tricks y 'all um so we love that again i just want to say something controversial really quick i'm not ready for the cocktail ottoman to be back I'm so bored of it still I think we OD'd so hard on the cocktail ottoman probably all the way up to like 2017 18 maybe even 19 that I'm like I'm gonna cocktail table for a while you know don't even look at me with your cocktail ottoman I get it this is traditional Matt appreach for the craftsmanship though I know they did such a good job and if a traditional client really wants us we'll totally do it but I just don't feel like I'm not there yet I really like a blend of mix of materials and this and this is a moment to get a really beautiful hard surface with some sort of exotic wood make a statement it's just too much fabric in a room I start to feel like a stuffed shirt I need a minute I need a minute for a hard surface how are we supposed to display our cocktail table it's totally fine in a bedroom let's do it in your in in your office maybe in the middle of a closet let's do it but I'm just not ready for it for the family room yet that's very she said it here ladies and gentlemen she said it here um this next image again just showing how the tapes are being applied to the bottom edge of that sofa.

38:13I thought it was really, really beautiful. And then here's a couple more dressmakers. Throw some bouillon fringe on it, y 'all. Bouillon fringe. It's back. It is. We saw this ottoman both upholstered like solid without the fringe and then with the fringe. I loved it both ways, but there definitely is the person that wants a little bit of that drizzle. Yep. Right here. So that is what that is. For those of you that can't see this, this is a little gumdrop ottoman. It's kind of a double bubble of a thing. The lower bubble is completely trimmed in bullion fringe and it covers that bubble, but it still arcuates over the top of that bubble.

38:44And so it's just little like Thanksgiving float of a thing. A tuffet. It is. It's so darling. And you could just see like a pair of these somewhere or like one in a closet or a little girl's room or a fancy living room. I would have like migrated that from room to room. Oh my gosh. Yes. Little mermaid. Ariel would have just like, that would have been like what she's seeing off of. So pretty. And then we've got this desk chair. it's got a wood frame but fully skirted to the ground with a little box pleat on it in a pattern which is a floral and beautifully welted really well tailored and I there's definitely a case for that more of that same language here on this dining chair fully skirted to the ground in a liberty of london fabric this is hickory chair entirely different animal than than this sitting on four legs yes yeah I know but I do like that it's just like a simple box I do too I like that versus having all modernizes yeah I'm like it cleans it up and I'm like that's my that's my flavor I like that a lot I do too the last one is exotic woods and I was so here for this yes this is probably one of my favorite things that we saw at market let me just say a return to fine furniture making the craftsmanship that is needed to pull this off or the veneers or the part I mean the parquetry the carving the fine furniture we're going to show you a few slides where it will just blow your mind and I'm so excited to incorporate some of this into projects.

40:07I feel like we've already started doing it with our heirloom collection. Let's just like quickly say that. Yes. With our Burlwood, our nightstand. George collection. Which again it's the heirloom. We have a Burl pedestal that's going to be launching beginning of the year. Let me just give a quick shout out for Exotic Woods because here's the work that it's doing in a room. It does what an animal print will do for your room but you're getting this pattern either through a veneer which is a Burl or you're getting it through the inlay. but you're getting a dark and a light tone on one surface making a pattern and it does so much for a space yeah like the value of this when you see it in a room is like second to none this first slide is this actual parsons table that we saw at at the antique show and we all just like stopped it like the length of it was amazing the finish was amazing and the simplicity of the frame you didn't need to do anything more because the wood green did all the work yes incredible burl with these highs and lows that just like I just wanted to like put that on my back and run it was so good so good okay this next one is from this furniture maker out of Mexico City Alfonso Marina and they this was like in their front lobby and I was just like well nobody was even there I just had like this moment of silence by myself and just the parquetry and it was just like you don't have they didn't have anything around it and you don't need to my gosh like it's just like moment of silence yeah just okay these next ones we kept seeing this next slide again the bro walnut on a modern frame I think I think that that's what like again all these a lot of them don't have a lot of complexity you will get some more complex moldings but they won't be in as like figurative woods but these ones like were just so incredible like the wood grain does the work and so you can have a simpler form this is another parsons table design but this is actually achieved through an artist painting tortoise on this high gloss cocktail table through made goods and we see them do this the same finish on other pieces they even have a set of coasters they have this really beautiful tortoise and we haven't seen tortoise in a long time oh but i'm faux tortoise yeah it was really good and you know what the high polish again the high shine is bringing those glossy wet finishes back into focus so even if you already have a room and it's done in a satin finish you can achieve some of these glossier effects by bringing in furnishings that will that will you know that candy shell 70s bridging 80s right here yeah i am too it's really really good for sure okay these next ones is just like a mixture of just like the traditional with the modern but again those wood tones the warmth of it just make it so much more rich i think the whole space if those weren't there that space would kind of fall flat and again just like i feel like people are just like carving things again which is so exciting back to like the fine furniture details of just like you have to be good shout out you do shout out to alfonso marina for these two images this is again made in mexico city and just finest craftsmanship if you want to take it next level that's your that's your shot and again here we have this next slide has like the bra on the frame but then you have that kind of woven rush happening on the actual front face of the cabinetry which again goes back to like southern I feel very southern about this yeah your territory or your style can still come into focus if you want to use burl woods with this this makes it a little more casual so if you're in Florida if you're in the south I think there's a great case still made for fine furniture that feels a little more casual with this combination of finishes yeah that's a wrap guys those are our impressions from high point market and what we're anticipating for the upcoming season or what we saw our eyeballs love to see is what we just showed you definitely a feast for all it's drinking from the fire hose but I hope that gets you guys excited inspired about what's to come again these things are going to be available in the spring of 26 and you'll start to see others really catching on sometimes the market takes a little while so maybe these things are going to start to come into bloom in 2028 or whenever you're in your projects install but I think you're going to start to feel this drumbeat happening like we just did at high point and I hope those visuals get you excited because we just feel like our brains, our minds, our ability to want to create, our toolbox feels so full with brand new tricks.

44:20Old tricks made new again through some of these vendors. Yeah, so good. Thanks so much for tuning in, you guys. A reminder that our Black Friday sale is going on right now. So check that out at alisanehome.com in the Black Friday collection. We're up to 30 % off. So make sure and take advantage of that. and just a big thank you to your listeners and thank you for tuning in. It really means so much and it was so fun to meet some of you at High Point. We'll catch you guys next time.

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