ATLANTA -- The expansive home furnishings collection at AmericasMart Atlanta will see important additions to the roster of exhibitors at the first global market of the year, The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market in January 2016.
HOME & RUG CENTER
The nation's premier rug collection, showcased at The Atlanta International Area Rug Market featuring the National Oriental Rug Show Jan. 13 - 16, 2016, is highlighted by the return of Louis De Poortere (Floor 3), Bokara Rug (Floor 3), Marcella (Floor 4) and Mat the Basics (Floor 5). Oriental Trading (Floor 3) is taking a new showroom and Company C (Floor 5) is premiering an additional AmericasMart location. The America's Magnificent Carpets Awards will take place on Friday, Jan. 15.
An increasing number of lifestyle brands are also taking spaces in AmericasMart's Home & Rug product center including David Allen Accessories (Floor 6), MET Colors (Floor 6), Lampworks (Floor 6) and Lifetime Brands (Floor 6) who all relocate from elsewhere in the AmericasMart campus.
Floors 9 through 13 welcome buyers with a new look inspired by AmericasMart's Chairman and Founder, John C. Portman, Jr. These floors showcase his revolutionary interior design in his signature Portman White color. The fashionable floors are an incubator for the industry's top home accents collections with lines like Made Goods (Floor 9) doubling in size to bring in its Pigeon & Poodle and Blue Pheasant lines; Mr. Brown (Floor 9) more than doubling its space; Matouk and John Robshaw Textiles (Floor 9) taking a combined corporate location; and Frantic Fern Arizona (Floor 9) and Bougainvillea (Floor 9) moving into exclusive spaces.
Other additions to these floors include new showrooms Old River Road (Floor 9) and Alicia Adams Alpaca (Floor 9), and expansions from Bobo Intriguing Objects (Floor 9), Chive (Floor 19), Saro (Floor 9), Noir Trading (Floor 13), Classic Concepts, Inc. (Floor 12), and Surya, Inc. (Floor 11).
Relocating for the market are Laura Lee Designs (Floor 12), CMA HOME (Floor 9) and Elegant Furniture & Lighting (Floor 12) relocate for the Market. The Floor 9 International Business Center has also received a new interior design as part of the floor update.
HOME & DESIGN COLLECTION
The Home & Design collection on Floors 14 and 15 continues to grow with design-driven Light & Living (Floor 15), Frank Thomas Gallery (Floor 14), Art & Frame Source, Inc. (Floor 15), Casa Fine Arts, Inc. (Floor 14), Ashore, Inc. (Floor 14) and Libeco (Floor 15) joining the product offering. Other Market updates include an expansion from Spicher & Co. (Floor 14) and a new location for Ibolili, Inc. (Floor 14).
The nation's most comprehensive Holiday & Floral/Home Décor collection features manufacturers expanding their showroom space in preparation for the category's most important buying event of the year including Kaemingk International (Floor 18) expanding to showcase a new lighting line; Naturalstar (Floor 19) and Flordis Design Images (Floor 18) both relocating to significantly larger showrooms; and Darice (Floor 20) and Melrose International (Floor 17) growing their AmericasMart foot prints. New showrooms include Starcrafts (Floor 19), Holidynamics (Floor 20) and Seasons Direct (Floor 19) who is returning to the Market Center.
The expansive permanent Casual Furniture offering in The Gardens collection on Building 2, Floors 9 and 10 is also highlighted by myriad new and expanded collections.
TEMPORARY COLLECTIONS
Supplementing the permanent Home collections are notable temporary offerings. The celebrated HD Home collection returns to its landmark location on Floor 1 of Building 1 accompanied by the Area Rug temporaries on Floor 2 and Home Accents, Home Furnishings, Home Textiles and Fine Linen temporaries on Floor 7. The temporary The Gardens collection is located on Building 2 Floor 4 and the Halloween and Holiday, Floral and Baskets collections are on Building 3, Floor 1.
PREMIERE PANTONE PRESENTATION
AmericasMart's Home collection hosts the global premiere presentation of the PANTONE Color of the Year 2016 as seven acclaimed interior designers and tastemakers each design a vignette in the Building 1, Floor 14 gallery inspired by the PantoneView home + interiors 2016 color forecast using products sourced exclusively from AmericasMart showrooms. The Design Exhibition will be available for viewing throughout market, and will continue to be on display until June 2016. AmericasMart proudly presents the Pantone Design Exhibition in collaboration with Rue and Veranda magazines and the Pantone Color Institute.
COLOR OF THE YEAR PARTY
The January 2016 Market's signature event, the Color of The Year Launch Party, will take place Friday, Jan.15. All Market attendees are invited to join in this high-energy celebration to toast the participants, view their vignettes and explore the new color of the year and top color trends for 2016. Laurie Pressman, vice president of Pantone Color Institute, leads a live viewing in the vignette gallery sharing the colors and trends driving home design for 2016 and beyond with an exclusive view into the selection of the Pantone Color of the Year 2016 in a presentation "The Colors and Trends Driving Design in 2016" also on Friday, Jan.15.
COURSES AND PRESENTATIONS
The Floor 15 Designer Workspace will be humming with activity as it hosts a litany of designer-focused events including CEU courses, networking receptions and presentations. Global Trend Ambassador Patti Carpenter shares "Through the Looking Glass: A Study in Contrasts" and author and style arbiter Robert Leleux leads a conversation with Southern style icons Gerrie Bremermann, Michelle Nussbaumer, Shaun Smith, Beth Webb and Brian Patrick Flynn on Thursday, Jan.17. Dynamic design duo Susanna Salk and Stacey Bewkes of Quintessence give buyers a behind-the-scenes look at their popular "At Home" series on Saturday Jan.16.
Other design-driven events include the return and expansion of Design Campus Live presenting a now three-day summit Jan.15-17., and "From Brick-and-Mortar to Click-and-Order" awards on Thursday, Jan.14.