Home Accents Today back issues from October 2002:
A style by any other name. (From The Editor).
Oct 01, 2002; ... Just one floor below our offices, the editorial staff of Furniture/Today has been laboring to pull together the varied styles debuting at High Point this week. We've been looking at hundreds of images here at Home Accents Today, putting names to trends, pulling similar looks ...
Showroom shuffle: High Point changes. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).
Oct 01, 2002; ... IF YOU'RE INTO basketball, you're familiar with the Big Dance, a.k.a, the playoffs. Well, here in the home accents/furniture industry we have a dance of our own which takes place in High Point every April and October. It's known as the Showroom Shuffle. Lest you feel confused by the mix or ...
Union Square opens with six large showrooms. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(High Point, N.C., building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright)
Oct 01, 2002; ... UNION SQUARE, High Point's latest showroom building, offers six huge showrooms with graceful columns and more than the usual dose of natural light. Scott Mooney, principal owner and driving force behind the renovation, hopes the lights will burn late inside the 98,000-sq.-ft. ...
Market Authority adds rapid bus, outdoor food. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(improvements to International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C.)
Oct 01, 2002; ... HOPING TO MAKE maneuvering through High Point quicker, the Market Authority has added a Rapid Ride gold bus route. Rapid Ride makes only three stops, and cuts the commute time of Market Express buses, which make numerous stops. The trio of stops are at the corners of Elm and ...
The spirit of the American West settles in High Point. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing)(Cover Story).(home accent trends at International Home Furnishings Market)(Cover Story)
Oct 01, 2002; ... Westward bound is the new direction for home accent trends at the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. this month. Melding the best of the past and present, this style reflects an up-to-the-minute, refined aura that reverberates with American spirit loud and clear. ...
Toyo bows August tabletop designs in High Point. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(Toyo introducing three porcelain collections designed by Lillian August)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... THE LICENSING AGREEMENT signed this spring between accessories vendor Toyo and furniture and fabric designer Lillian August comes to fruition this month at the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. Three distinct porcelain collections featuring floral motifs will be ...
Ireland adds wall decor and accents. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(Kathy Ireland is working with Art & Frame Direct and Next Dimension Studios)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... KATHY IRELAND'S (Los Angeles) home-related products include furniture, flooring and lighting and now she's adding two new categories--accessories and wall decor. Ireland has teamed with Art & Frame Direct for accessories and Next Dimension Studios for wall decor, further ...
Interlude to show DuBois designs. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(Interlude Home is introducing a line of designs from Renee DuBois)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... INTERLUDE HOME will introduce a collection of designs from Renee DuBois this month at the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. New collections will be introduced on a bi-annual basis. Designs include accent furniture and accessories created in a blend of ...
Bogart among top names to headline in High Point. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(new licensed furniture collections)
Oct 01, 2002; ... SOME OF THE BEST-KEPT secrets this market revolve around five of the biggest licensed furniture collections. Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Julian, Oscar de la Renta, Jaclyn Smith and Martha Stewart all have collections under their names being unveiled this month at the International Home ...
Highlights: notable furniture introductions for this season. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).
Oct 01, 2002 ... American Drew--Ovations, a light contemporary look in ash and ash burls, utilizes metal and glass on bedside tables. Another new collection, Mirage, features rich carving and bombe curves. Bassett--The 5th Avenue collection offers a contemporary look, mixing granite and leather ...
West Coast port shutdown felt in High Point. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).
Oct 01, 2002; ... HOME ACCENT SAMPLES en route to this month's market in High Point, N.C., were among more than $300 billion worth of cargo left stranded at West Coast ports during a just-ended 10-day labor lockout. Some vendors responded by arranging air freight deliveries of key products at ...
Karastan enters new design, marketing era. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(Karastan Rug & Home)
Oct 01, 2002; ... KARASTAN IS ENTERING a new era as Karastan Rug & Home. But the company's premium branded image will never change. That's the word from Phil Haney, president of the new division of Mohawk Home. Haney discussed what will--and won't--be different at Karastan. ...
Lam Lee to be honored by ARTS. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).
Oct 01, 2002 ... LAM LEE, president and founder of The Lam Lee Group (Coppell, Texas) will be presented with the ARTS Awards Academy of Achievement award at the 14th ARTS Awards gala in January in Dallas. On Jan. 18, the Dallas Market Center and the Accessories Resource Team will present Lee ...
Target partners with Woolrich. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(Target gains a new exclusive bedding and home accents line)
Oct 01, 2002 ... TARGET STORES (Minneapolis) is partnering with Woolrich (Woolrich, Pa.) to bring an exclusive line of bedding and home accents to all Target stores. Target currently carries an exclusive Waverly bedding collection as well. The Woolrich Home collection will include flannel ...
Beljen Mills joins forces with William Mangum. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(new collection of tapestries features work of North Carolina artist)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... BELJEN MILLS is introducing a collection of tapestries featuring the work of Greensboro, N.C., artist William Mangum. The six designs will debut at the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. this month. "Bill has such a tremendous ability to place you in the ...
Claiborne partners with Carpet One to roll out first designs. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(Liz Claiborne forms a partnership with Carpet One to launch the Liz Claiborne Home line)
Oct 01, 2002; ... LIZ CLAIBORNE is entering the home fashion category with a major product and merchandising partnership with Carpet One floor covering specialty stores. Floor covering is just the first step in a program that will eventually cover a variety of home products, according to Barbara J ....
Pacific Rim expands High Point showroom. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(reatailer increases its showroom at the International Home Furnishings Center)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... PACIFIC RIM (Seattle) has nearly tripled the size of its showroom at the Main Street entrance of the International Home Furnishings Center in High Point, N.C. The company's showroom space now extends to the southwest corner of the main wing and merges its Holiday Gallery from a ...
Nourison signs agreement with Waverly to produce rugs. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).
Oct 01, 2002; ... WAVERLY AND NOURISON have entered a licensing agreement under which Nourison will produce handmade and machine-made rugs under the Waverly brand. The first collection will be introduced in the spring and will include area, accent and scatter rugs in six to eight patterns, which ...
Mayo to debut original artwork in High Point. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(designer Mary Mayo is introducing five of her original artworks)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... IN KEEPING WITH her philosophy of providing sophisticated, individualistic wall decor, Mary Mayo will introduce five of her original artworks at the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. this month. "I am thrilled to be able to offer my own art to our ...
Home Accents Today hosts seminar and party during market. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Home Accents Today Editor in Chief Becky Boswell Smith will offer an exclusive look at style trends in home accents, as well as key directions in retail, during the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. The seminar will feature an overview of trends evident and emerging ...
David Landis closes High Point space, bows designs at four other showrooms. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(lighting designer David Landis is leaving manufacturing)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... LIGHTING DESIGNER David Landis will close his showroom at the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point this month, but his designs will be shown at Remington Lamps, Cardinal Products, Pecaso Lighting and Flair International. Landis shifted from manufacturing his own ...
Parisian opens Stetson gallery. (News: retailing manufacturing internet licensing marketing).(new prototype store introduced)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002; ... PARISIAN OPENED its new prototype store in Birmingham, Ala., in August, including a 500-sq.-ft. Stetson Gallery by Flambro. While many department stores are getting out of the home business, Parisian recognized the decline in apparel sales and realized the upward trend in home accents and ...
Is your store a den of thieves? Employee theft is a major cause of loss, costing retailers $5 billion in 2001. (Retail Operations).
Oct 01, 2002; ... Everyone knows it exists; for some it's a bigger problem than others. Some companies have personnel dedicated to its elimination; consultants thrive on telling you how to eradicate it; and nobody wants to talk about it. It's employee theft, and combined with shoplifting it ...
Border crossing: manufacturers add accents to help retailers sell furniture.
Oct 01, 2002; ... The border between home accent and furniture vendors blurs as more mainstream furniture companies add home accents to their product lines. They say they're crossing that border to help retailers sell more furniture; the better it looks on the retail floor, the better it will sell. They say ...
All in the family: multi-generational businesses plan and work for success.
Oct 01, 2002; ... The next three years, experts in the family business field agree, will spawn enormous challenges for both founders and successors in most of the nation's family-owned businesses. In 2002 alone, they predict, 43% of these firms will experience a change in leadership, and by 2005 almost all ...
A coat of many colors. (Retail Concepts).(how to use color to dress up home furnishings stores, US)
Oct 01, 2002; ... "GOD IS LIBERAL of color, so should man be," said author Herman Melville in a lecture. Retailers take heed. About 70% of human sense receptors are in the eyes, so what better way to grab attention and stimulate consumers than with a visual impression, and what better way to make ...
Nostalgia is white-hot for bath. (Bath: designed directions).(US)
Oct 01, 2002; ... Perhaps the most underrated room in the house, the bathroom is finally coming into its own. In terms of style and utility, products for the bath are now fully able to compete with the rest of the house. Lance Hood, owner of Hydrologie, a bath accessory company based in Seattle, Wash., says ...
On the storefront. (Retail Update).(Design Within Reach and Bowhe & Peare open new stores, US)
Oct 01, 2002; ... TIGARD, ORE.-BASED Interior Motives (the grandmother-motherdaughter ART Award-winning trio) hosted a VIP reception complete with a swing band for Alexander Julian in Lion Heart Manor, a million-dollar English manor style home they furnished and decorated with Julian's Highland collection ...
Paisley panache. (What's hot: style).
Oct 01, 2002; ... A FAVORED PATTERN for women's shawls since 1790, this stylized motif has undergone several transformations in previous centuries. Today, any shape or size of the dynamic design will more than do as it impacts the home way beyond throws. Versatile and eclectic, paisley reinterpreted suits ...
Furniture/today's market guide: exclusive first look: style directions.(US)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... For furniture, and especially for this October market, many collections are blending of styles constructed around an individual (such as Century's Oscar de la Renta Collection and Thomasville's Humphrey Bogart Collection), a place (take a look at Madison Square's Monticello collection) or ...
Abigails. (High point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A variety of sculptural pieces premier. A ceramic Guinea features gloss and satin glazes in its realistic depiction of the fowl ($225). Two bust-like sculptures are new, a ...
Adesso. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A variety of contemporary lamp designs debut. The Obelisk table lamp ($100), also available as a floor lamp, has a triangle base of matte silver gray with a cloth shade. Other introductions ...
Alexis Lighting. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Part of the Alexis Designer Series, a line of decorative lampshades premiers. The cream shade has a decorative leaf and scroll pattern on ...
Amalfi Collection. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A rustic-looking ceramic and glass tabletop is new. The French Enamel collection features distressed edges and soft colors such as blue, ivory, taupe and golden ...
Ambience. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A black marble finish and French gold accents set apart the Montreaux table lamp, which also boasts a hand-crafted, imported shade ($1,200). A dramatic ...
AMS Imports. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... From the Ayacucho collection of hand-made Peruvian rugs, Sierra offers a new color-way. The design has a patchwork-like triangle ...
Amy Howard Collection. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... The Renaissance bed debuts with a cane inset on the cream head- and footboard. Inspired by Scandinavian design, the Jacqueline nightstand is solid alder with a distressed finish. Other introductions include the ...
Ann Gish. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A contemporary bed gets a fresh look in Ann Gish's Ready to Bed collection. The 100% washable silk design is available in a variety of crisp, ...
Archatrive. (High Point).(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2002 ... An Entertainment Center is new for the Deconstructionist collection. Featuring two shelf/cabinet sections flanking a center cabinet with space for a TV and storage ...
Art & Frame Direct. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A traditionally styled grandfather clock offers an added bonus. The clock features storage shelves behind two ...
Art Galeri. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Presentation distinguishes the wall decor from Art Galeri. Hung in the manner of a tapestry, the museum wrapped canvases are suspended from a finished wood header and available in two sizes ....
Arte Italica. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Ceramic and pewter mingle in a new hand-painted blue and white dinnerware pattern, Veranda, with fruit motifs adorning the pieces ($30 to ...
Artistica. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Old World designs showcase strong Italian influences in the Antica Majolica Montelupo collection. The hand-painted ceramics include jugs, canisters and plates ($578 to $778) from the Florentine area of ...
The Ashton Company. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Traditional elegance marks the canvas transfer wall decor premiering at The Ashton Company. Depicting urns filled to overflowing with ...
Atmospheres. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Indoor/outdoor designs are in the spotlight. An aluminum chair has a latticework seat and a back decorated with two large x's ($360). Also new, a lava ...
Attribut. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Clean, modern styling is the hallmark of a new lamp design. A stainless steel rod rises from a molded hydrostone base in espresso and is topped off ...
Austin. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Chris Madden, in conjunction with Company Candle Collections for Austin International, debuts a line of candles. Rich with architectural details, color and texture, the designs feature strong Asian and Africa motifs. The ...
Babette Holland Design. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Patterns is the latest collection of handspun metal vase and pot designs. Featuring stripes, block designs and dot designs, ...
Bailey Street Trading. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Gently curving legs and a hand-painted top distinguish the Courtesan Pedestal table ($300). Also debuting, the Regency Demilune cabinet has an ebony finish with hand-painted ...
Balangier. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A white-washed scroll pattern frames the Oslo mirror ($89 to $179), new this market and available in two ...
Baldwin. (high point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A swing arm lamp, from the Baldwin Lighting collection, has a satin nickel finish. The wall-mounted design, made of solid brass, boasts a gray mist shade ($335). Laguna, the ...
Barada. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A champagne holder of metallic gold with glass inserts features curved legs and two scrolled handles ($80). A ...
Barbara Cosgrove Lamps. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... The Leaf sconce premiers. The darkly hued resin design has a hand-painted striped shade in a silver gray ...
Bardel International. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... From the Elite Bohemia Lighting line, a 12-light crystal chandelier is in the spotlight. The design is trimmed with Spectra grade trimmings ...
Barlow Tyrie. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Updating an old English pub game, Barlow Tyrie introduces Lawn Skittles made of teak and brass. The game is ...
Bashian. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Several Tibetan wool designs debut. One of the rugs is a panel design in beige with florals in each panel and at each corner. Woven ...
Basil's. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Decorative pillows in the Sophie's Home collection premier. Featuring tropical and safari motifs, the designs are available in jute and tapestry ($49 to $79) and washed ...
Bassett Mirror. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... A variety of new wall decor and mirror offerings are unveiled. The Tasseled mirror is available in a gold leaf or antique silver leaf finish ($29), while the Mosaic Dragonfly mirror is highlighted by the colorful mosaic design ($99). Other ...
Bauer International. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... New to the Stiles Brothers collection, Gondola Trunk baskets debut. Reminiscent of vintage balloon baskets, the designs are ...
Beljen Mills. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Chelsea Garden, an architectural tapestry using chenille and rayon, was inspired by a drawing of a Renaissance period gate ($599, 4x6-foot). Resembling a fresco painting, the Casablanca Stairwell tapestry offers the ambiance of the famed Moroccan ...
Belle fleur. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... The Florals and Fruit collection is in the spotlight. Included in the offerings are silk hydrangeas in Roman-style concrete vases ($75) and fall blooms surrounding a clear glass bowl with ...
Bella Notte Linens. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Four new colors--dove gray, Caribbean, truffle and pistachio--have been added to the company's popular designs. Available in a mix of textures and fabrics, ...
Bernard Pecaso Lighting. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Perfect for a smaller room, the Le Petit Chic chandelier is enhanced by ...
Bettis Brooke Mirrors. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... Several designs debut in the Old World collection. Corsica is hand-carved wood with a marble green and gold finish ($1,500). The equally impressive and elaborately adorned ...
Big Fish. (High Point).
Oct 01, 2002 ... New last April, The Grand Soleil mirror collection from Big Fish has additions. A black and gold design has a beveled mirror and is available in two sizes ($335 to ...