Outlook for High Point Furniture Market Cautious

With the ongoing slide of furniture and home furnishings sales, the industry will gather later this month with bigger concerns. When the furniture industry meets later this month, starting on April 25th, for its twice-yearly market week in High Point, NC, it will seem to be another case of déjà vu. For at least the […]

High Point Market Will Be a Tale of Two Shows

As the world’s biggest furniture market starts this weekend, it will be all about the haves and have-nots. When the furniture industry gathers in High Point, NC, over the next ten days for its spring market, it will be with the dark cloud of tariffs hanging over it, creating possible opportunities for vendors who either […]

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 […]