New collections typically reach retail showrooms in about six months.
The market offers a glimpse at coming styles and trends. In fabric, look for the gray palette to grow; showrooms featured grays from light - call it a honey smoke - to dark charcoal. Many woods were weathered.
'It's almost as if furniture was exposed to the elements, then brought back in,' said Rupal Mamtani of importer Bluefish Home.
The fall market concluded last weekend. Other highlights:
Hooker Furniture, a Virginia company, introduced an innovative adjustable headboard. You can raise or lower it in 2-inch increments to complement mattress thickness, ceiling height and the scale of bedside tables and other furnishings.
The headboard will be available in four styles, two painted and two upholstered, and sell for $499 in queen size, said Hooker spokeswoman Kim Shaver.
Sam Moore, a company that Hooker recently bought, plans to offer headboards upholstered in 500 of the company's fabrics. Those headboards will be adjustable, too, and will sell for about $999.
Green - as in environmentally friendly - shapes more and more furniture styles and marketing.
Bernhardt, a Lenoir company, introduced its first eco-friendly collection called 'Cascade.' The company cut waste, used fewer volatile finishes and chose woods from sustainable sources, said LeAnna Graves, director of advertising. The 61-piece collection features rustic walnut veneers and such unusual touches as skeletal tree leaves under glass and river pebbles imbedded in table tops.
Vaughan-Bassett, a Virginia company that's the country's largest maker of adult bedroom furniture, announced a '141,' or one-for-one reforestation program
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