A look at phase i EXHIBITS

  • Home Furnishings Capital of the World™: The Market represents the largest economic event in North Carolina, with an annual impact of $6.73 billion – greater than four Super Bowls, 47 NCAA Final Four weekends, and 99 World Series home games. Every six months, tens of thousands of products are showcased, in any style imaginable, including residential furniture for every room, rugs, lighting fixtures, art, pillows, wallpaper and accent items.

  • Culp Industry by the Numbers: Located at the front of Celebration Hall, the Industry by the Numbers exhibits focuses on the immense impact that the home furnishings sector has on the U.S. economy and American lives. Estimated at $150 billion annually, the home furnishings industry in the U.S touches every room in the home, producing and selling products that range from sofas, tables and mattresses to lamps, rugs and accessories. Thousands of manufacturers sell their products to wholesale buyers known as “the trade” at the semi-annual High Point Market and other major shows in Las Vegas, Dallas, New York and Atlanta. Manufacturers put together collections for sale by a wide range of sellers, from local stores and online retailers to interior designers and architects, and tens of thousands of these buyers attend the market regularly to choose which products they plan offer to consumers in their business’s merchandise assortments.

  • ANDMORE Imagination Theater which seats 30 presents the scope of the industry through films that take you inside the industry.

Raymour & Flannigan Tribute Wall: Facing the Wall of Fame, the Tribute Wall features a high-tech video screen that will highlight some of the most outstanding stories that have impacted the home furnishings industry.  The display will celebrate leadership through the use of documentaries, videos, photography and oral histories.

  • Samson Holding Ltd. Gallery of Invention: located on the first floor near the Presentation Staircase. The gallery focuses on the ever-evolving nature of home furnishings design and how new technologies, ideas and innovations are constantly moving products forward to meet the changing needs of consumers.

Sunbrella Design Gallery: Still under development, this gallery, located on the second floor, visitors will explore the latest trends in the wide, wide world of fashion, culture and living and see how these trends get translated into the home furnishings products. Highly interactive, the Design Gallery provides new insights into how a personal style is developed and the impact that home furnishings have on each of us every day.

  • The Four Hands Trend Spotter exhibit is created in collaboration with global trend forecasting Fashion Snoops. Each market, the area will feature one of the key trends Fashion Snoops has identified as being a major influence on furnishings for the coming year. The Trend Spotter display will include a digital mood board highlighting key trends as well as a display of 15 actual products. The products will range from upholstery and case goods to lighting and rugs, featuring design elements that reflect the key lifestyle trends being spotlighted.

  • The ManWah Process Gallery

  • The Dufresne Spencer Group Celebration Banners:

  • Italian Ceramics: This exhibit was created to highlight the advent and rapid growth of the market for Italian ceramic products that developed in the U.S. after the end of World War II.

  • “The Kings of Mod,” showcasing the pioneering collaboration of American furniture designer Milo Baughman (1923-2003) and local furniture maker and Hall of Fame Inductee Thayer Coggin (1922-2003).

    The Hall of Fame temporary exhibit, features some of the most iconic pieces from the Baughman and Coggin partnership, showcasing the timeless elegance, quality and innovation that made both men legends in the world of American home furnishings.

  • The Kennedy Rug: An elegant, 19th-century Victorian needlepoint floral rug that once graced the floor of the White House during the John F. Kennedy presidency, this vintage, historic rug is on loan to the Hall of Fame by floor covering and home accent resource Nourison and the Peykar family, owners of the company.