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05062016 High Point Market Grand Tour Part 3 - Showplace and More

By Carol Tisch
5/6/2016

High Point, N.C. -- The rug scene at Showplace at the April 2016 High Point Market was as much a forum for new ideas as for new design and color introductions, including a new influx of outdoor-worthy rugs with indoor-worthy styling. 

 

Creating a narrative -- telling a story -- is an important theme in these hyper-technology-driven times, when a tsunami of information can overwhelm a consumer every time a computer or tablet is accessed. Finding ways to tell a story about a product or a company is imperative and rug producers have some of the best stories to share with consumers. 

 

Examples at Showplace this market included a Chai Talk at Jaipur titled "Tale of a Million Knots: How to Speak the Language of the Luxury Rug," presented by the company's Sitara Menon with comments by Jaipur's founder, MK Chaudhary. Surya continued its popular discussion series with a Q&A session entitled, Timeless Design with Emma Gardner, and a Colormix 2016 presentation with Sherwin-Williams.

  

Included in Part 3 of our High Point Market Grand Tour by building are must-see rug companies along the Market Shuttle route. In case you missed it, read our comprehensive Grand Tour Part 1, IHFC report and Part 2, Market Square


AMER
 

Joe Barkley, Amer Rugs (left) with Bill Muller and Kurt Muller of Webster Carpet & Rugs in Cherry Hill, N.J., are introduced to Amer's new creative director, Molly Mays at the rug maker's Showplace showroom.
 
 
Exuding colorful international flair, rugs from Amer's Silkshine collection on display at High Point Market are hand knotted of 100 percent upcycled sari silk, making a trend-right and sustainable design statement.
 
JAIPUR LIVING
 
 
At the Jaipur Living launch and Kate Spade New York party, Kim Muroff of California-based Hightide Brands celebrates with Li Kurczewski and Asha Chaudhary of Jaipur Living and Aviva Stanoff of Aviva Designs, San Diego, Calif.
 

Brandy Commodore, left, Jaipur Living, and Rainy Westerman, Rainy Westerman Interior Design of Rock Hill, S.C., pose in front of the Splatter Paint design from the Bowery collect by Kate Spade New York.
 
KALEEN
 
 
Kaleen president Monty Rathi with Urban Outfitters' Steven Wood, Kaleen's Blake Dennard and Ty Strader,  Lauren De Saint Martin  of Urban Outfitters and Radhe Rathi, Kaleen's CEO. 
 
A market best-seller, Kaleen's Mercery collection is hand-tufted in a blend of wool and viscose and features Ikat-inspired, global, and vanishing pattern designs. Retail is $759 in 5x7.9.   
 
LR RESOURCES
 
 
Posing in front of one of their newly purchased Oushak designs with S.K. Laddha of LR Resources (second left), are South Carolina-based Mary Etta Williams, left, of Mew Designs; Tracey Barry, J.Tracey Interiors; and Donna Knight Walden, Mew Designs.
 
 
Buttery soft hand-knotted Oushak rugs in pale creams and blue colorways were among the market hits at LR Resources' Showplace showroom during spring High Point Market.
 
ORIAN
 
 
Kim Mills of Furniture from High Point, Thomasville, N.C.; and Neil Anderson, of Orian stand in front of the machine woven of olefin Mardi Gras collection's Foxglove design.
 

Buyers visiting the Orian showroom were greeted with a display of on-point black and white rugs from the Emissary collection, which is machine made of olefin with a soft dimensional texture.

SURYA
 
 
The always-packed Surya High Point Market party morphed into a jubilant celebration of the company's 40th anniversary (read full story). From left are Fabio Camara, of Hunter Lodge & Tour of Barra da Tijuca, Brazil; Satya Tiwari president of Surya; Shazia Khan of Teamway, Toronto; and Felipe Hernandez, Bca LLC, Cedar Park, Texas.
 
 
Posing in front of a new Surya wool and silk Colaba collection hand-knotted rug are Mike Herschel, left, of Furniture Marketing Group; Seth King, Surya; and Michael Herschel and Dennis Hoy, both of FMG. 

OTHER MUST-SEE HOT SPOTS
 
FRENCH ACCENTS
 

Danny Shaffian of French Accents welcomes RugNews.com into his sunlit 200 N. Hamilton showroom with a pale pink wool Khotan outside the front door to grab attention. Behind him is a huge Retro Serapi in soft beige (style H912).
  

New to High Point shoppers, French Accents introduces the Modern Collection, which is hand knotted of wool and silk in the Nepalese weave in a broad assortment of original artful designs.

E. J. VICTOR - LIDA LAVENDER
 


The E.J. Victor furniture showroom, brimming with rugs from its growing roster of partnerships with high profile designers, adorns its displays with furniture and rugs from Cecilia Thayer-Berber of Berber Kammlah, and antique and new rugs from Lida Lavender.
 

Flecks of Lurex metallic yarn in the Berber Kammlah Silver Lace rug by Bokara pick up the silver finish on an E.J. Victor round table and side chairs. 


A pale wool Oushak rug from Lida Lavender is a soothing complement to classic furniture from interior designer Randall Tysinger for E.J. Victor. 

NATUZZI - DE POORTERE
 

Louis De Poortere's Thierry Flamant, VP Sales America, left, and Leonardo Chimienti, product line manager of the Natuzzi Editions brand, at the Natuzzi High Point showroom, where a new program with De Poortere is on full display (read story). 

 
The Mad Men collection by De Poortere Deco is crafted on modified Wilton looms in a jacquard weave of 85 percent cotton chenille and 15 percent high-gloss polyester comes in three patterns. 

NULOOM

 
At the Nuloom C&D Building showroom, Lindsey Okerlund from Overstock.com stands in front of the Vintage Lavona rug from the Dynasty collection.
 

A view of Nuloom's C&D Building showroom reveals the depth of the rug company's assortment which includes the ThomasPaul licensed collection introduced in High Point in machine-made prints and wool-tufted rugs like the orange and black bullseye design, shown at left.  (Read full story).  

PANAMA JACK
 


At the Panama Jack corporate showroom at Market on Green, Stephan Giles, director of Panama Jack Home, left, and Jeff Vaughn, vice president of United Weavers, presented the rug collection on racks and in coordinated vignettes (read full story).

 
The Island Breeze Sea Life rug shown in the natural sand colorway (above) and the Starfish Border rug in this High Point showroom setting are both machine made of heat set olefin by United Weavers for Panama Jack Home.
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