The High Point Market Authority announces the lineup of design tastemakers for its Spring Market Instagram Takeover series. Scheduled for each day of Spring Market, April 2-6, the takeover will provide insights into each participant’s journey through Market. Throughout their selected day, each influencer will share various components of their time in High Point, including visited showrooms, products favorites, and connections they’ve made.

Eighteen industry insiders are set to participate come April, including:

Rug importer and manufacturer Shalom Brothers Inc., which was previously based in New York City for 45 years, recently moved into a new 4,500-square-foot
showroom located at 145 Industrial Drive, Little Ferry, New Jersey.  The new showroom is close to Secaucus, NJ, and a short distance from New York City.

“We’re growing and we didn’t think Manhattan would have been able to give us that kind of growth,” says Rafi Amirian, vice president of Shalom Brothers.
“Now we have loading docks and it’s much easier to drop-ship. We’re seeing tremendous growth in our online business, and it just makes sense to move where we can drop-ship easier.”

Feizy, the award-winning rug manufacturer, today announced it will debut Revolution by Feizy, a designer-driven fine rug program, at High Point Market this Spring. Revolution by Feizy will offer contemporary and transitional pieces available in a curated size range made of exceptional materials like wool and silk.

Each collection available through Revolution by Feizy boasts intricate designs and stunning colorways that are thoughtfully crafted for the refined aesthetic. Rug enthusiasts with a desire for sophisticated style can now select from Revolution by Feizy’s showstopping fine rugs, including the Conley, McDermott, Montfort, Lombardy, Sumner, Edin, Fowler, and Merril collections.

The popular and well-tracked Center Stage area, located central to High Point’s Market District, will reset this Spring Market as a pop-up park open to all attendees. Offering a connection point for networking, seating areas for quick breaks between showroom visits, and various programming opportunities, the space will open on Friday, April 1. Home to a number of activations throughout the years, Center Stage is a large outdoor area in between Showplace and the Transportation Terminal. It is historically well-known for Saturday and Sunday evening concerts but has also hosted daytime programming such as Sustainability Stories, Design Oasis, and Crypton Patio, among others.

Kalaty Rug Corporation announces that its latest licensed area rug series, katie merz x Kalaty, will launch at the upcoming April High Point Market at the company’s IHFC showroom (G-369). Kalaty is collaborating with Katie Merz, renowned Brooklyn-born-and-based mural artist, to produce what the company states will be a growing series of area rug collections based on her dynamic, innovative artwork, which offers consumers a new way of bringing art into their homes and onto their floors.

High Point Market’s 2022 Style Spotters are gearing up for an active Spring Market, April 2-6, with a full slate of daily Hot Spot Tours, the popular Style Spotters LIVE! event, and, of course, their quintessential product spotting within showrooms throughout the Market district. The full team of 2022 Style Spotters will be in High Point to act as the industry’s trend-setting guides, scouring the Market’s buildings and showrooms to highlight the top new styles this spring. They will begin early, spotting 25 favorite products each, then adding their selections to curated digital galleries on the Style Spotters hub page, highpointmarket.org/products-and-trends/style-spotters.

Leading culinary buying group GC will have a major presence at the Summer 2022 Atlanta Market with its 300+ retail members invited to participate in a new “Summer Series” with educational programming and an exclusive vendor expo during the July 12-18, 2022 buying event at AmericasMart Atlanta reports International Market Centers (IMC).

Harounian Rugs International (HRI), an industry leader in the manufacturing and importing of fine Handmade and Machine-made area rugs for over 60 years has launched its 2022 Winter Catalog. The 100-page full-color luxe print book is now en route to customers. The catalog features the firm’s recent additions inspired by the latest style and color trends and showcases over 200 designs representing 48 of the company's leading collections in all constructions. 

Secaucus, NJ – Less than two weeks after The Rug Show reported the pandemic-related postponement of its planned February event, organizers have announced new dates of September 14 - 16, 2022, at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ. “Autumn markets in the metro New Jersey/New York area are steeped in rug tradition,” said one of the show’s key organizers, Jack Simantob of Art Resources.