High Point Furniture Market Report: Better News This Month

It wasn’t the best of times, but it wasn’t the worst either as the furniture industry gathered for its market this month. Spoiler alert: Until the housing market starts to come back – really back – furniture makers and retailers are just not going to return to the good times they experienced before COVID…much less […]

Seven of Top 25 Furniture Pieces of Last 100 Years Are of Wood

Furniture can be made of any number of materials but a new New York Times ranking shows products made of wood to be a dominant material. Granted it’s a subjective ranking, but a new New York Times survey of the 25 “most defining” pieces of furniture of the past 100 years should make those in […]

Embracing the Natural Look of Wood Grain in Furniture

In current interior design practice, functionality is a factor in furniture vetting and selection. But other decision drivers are also at work. Topping the list is the debate between utilizing stain coloring and embracing the organic, natural look of wood grain in furniture. Until recently, stain coloring has been the deciding factor in what typically are big-ticket […]

Furniture Industry Set for High Point Market Amid Dark Clouds

Recent bankruptcies on the supplier side could indicate more problems ahead for the furniture business. With several high-profile bankruptcies on the supplier side of the business over the past few months, the upcoming High Point Furniture Market will be held with all eyes pointed…well, pointed in every direction as attendees keep a close watch on […]

Design Emphasis Student Competition Promotes ‘Innovation Shaping the Future’ Theme of WWMM

As Woodworking Manufacturing Month kicks off this week, winners of the annual Design Emphasis Student Competition talk about what it’s meant for their careers. The IWF Design Emphasis program is widely acclaimed as a foremost furniture design competition for U.S. college students and as Woodworking Manufacturing Month is now live throughout October it is a reminder […]

All About Design at IWF 2024

IWF Design Emphasis is celebrated as a premier furniture design competition for U.S. college students. To explore the best of the 2022 awards—including Design Emphasis winners and judges—go here.

Before There Was High Point, There Was Jamestown, NY

A furniture dealer in this western New York state city is celebrating the history of when Jamestown was the furniture capital of the world. For the furniture industry, it’s sometimes hard to believe that there was anything before High Point, NC as the capital of the industry. But indeed there was, and prior to the […]

High Point Furniture Market Continues Rebound

Even as the overall market for home furnishings products, including wooden case goods, remains soft, the leading trade show for the sector showed a 6% increase in registrations. Reflecting the overall housing market and rising interest rates, the home furnishings sector remains soft, off significantly from the boom years of the pandemic when Americans spent […]

As IWF 2022 Opens, Exciting New Tools, Technology and Materials Debut

As crowds begin pouring into IWF 2022, the massive halls of the Georgia World Congress Center—1.2 million square feet packed with more than 925 exhibitors—are positively brimming with the latest advances in materials, technology, and services. The pandemic did not stop advances in development of equipment and consumables. And woodworkers have continued to adopt better […]

FirstFacts for Exhibitors: Hitch Your Marketing Star to IWF Woodworking Influencers

Atlanta, GA—IWF Woodworking Influencers Lounge (Booth A10620) sponsored by Shaper Tools, will see more than two dozen of the most popular online personalities drawing hundreds of shop owners and many industry managers and operations professionals who follow them on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. All exhibitors will benefit from the traffic “halo effect” of these online woodworking stars […]