Award-winning international designer Bill Stubbs knows about luxury. As one of Architectural Digest’s top 100 designers, Stubbs earned a reputation for his multi-million dollar projects for high-profile clients. But with a philosophy that the experience of “luxury” should be accessible to everyone, Stubbs has also turned his talents to designing community housing projects for the elderly and furnishing on a small budget.

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In 1923, Dorothy Draper founded the first interior design firm. Next week at High Point Market, her legacy will continue. Carleton Varney, an internationally renowned designer who at one time worked closely with Draper, sees a rising popularity of furniture inspired by the designs of Dorothy Draper.

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Pulaski and SLF (Samuel Lawrence Furniture) are showing off new spaces at 220 Elm this High Point Market. The side-by-side showrooms at 220 Elm will occupy an entire floor of the 220 Elm complex, with a combined 70,000 square feet.

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The value of a dollar can mean new opportunities for American furniture manufacturers. Exporting U.S. product to foreign markets is one way to make the most of current exchange rates and Free Trade Agreements.

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Celebrating a century of tradition, Old Hickory Furniture Company and Yellowstone National Park Lodges are introducing the limited edition Yellowstone Collection at the High Point Market.

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Exhibiting in High Point this Spring? Then mark your calendars for the Third Annual Hike for Hope—a two-mile walk benefiting the City of Hope, a leading research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases—set for the morning of Saturday, April 5, 2008.

The walk, led by Grand Marshal Jayson Friedman of Top 100 retailer Carls Furniture, will start and finish at the High Point Market Transportation Terminal and follow a scenic route through High Point's downtown. According to event chairperson Ellen Gefen, the Hike for Hope is a great opportunity for Market exhibitors to showcase their brand by donning their company T-shirts and walking as a team. Plus, the 7 a.m.-start time gives exhibitors plenty of time to get back to the showrooms for sales meetings and the like.

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If 85,000 people each drink one bottle of water every day for seven days, how many bottles end up in the landfill?

None, if the City of High Point has its way. Each Market, when the population of the town nearly doubles, the city’s crews work 24/7 to collect plastic and glass bottles, cans, and packaging materials and process them at the city-owned Materials Recycling Facility (MRF).

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