High Point Becomes Year-Round Furniture Center of Industry
The city of High Point, known for its winter furniture market, expands into a year-round hub for furniture industry services. The Southern Furniture Exposition Building and Furniture Plaza anchor a complex hosting AFMA SRFA and Furniture South offices, Alderman Studios, and Lyon Furniture Mercantile Agency, signaling growth driven by the Southern market.
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Enterprise Sunday
High Point
Furniture Plaza
Furniture Market
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
AFMA
Southern Retail Furniture Assn
National Retail Furniture Assn
SRFA
South
Growth of High Point furniture industry and services
The High Point area develops into a full furniture services hub with advertising agencies, designers, photographers, and a strong HFIC move from Chicago planned for spring market. Southern Furniture News expands reach, Southern Buying Syndicate grows retailer mailing, and 1961 sees 12 new allied firms. The aim is a three billion dollar business volume this year.
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Southern Furniture Exposition
Wrenn Street
High Point
Bennett Advertising Co. Inc
Home Furnishings Industry Committee
Chicago
HFIC
SFMA
James Webb
Webb
Southern
John Tobin
SRFA
Tobin
Winter market welcomes buyers with new furniture lines
High Point hosts buyers from the Southeast for the winter market showcasing fall market introductions. A 92 inch Corvair sofa from Carson's Inc features rubber cushions zippered covers and non slip welts. A dresser from Unique Furniture Markers highlights Appalachian oak and a golden finish. A chair from Clyde Pearson Inc’s Sorrento Collection shows exposed wood and sorrento cherry legs.
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High Point
Carson’s Inc
Unique Furniture Markers
Winston-Salem
Clyde Pearson Inc
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Jack Wagstaff
ERL
Tomn Tobin
Pauline Loflin
Southern Buying Syndicate
Russell T. Holt
Margaret Hayworth
Robert Golden, W. L. Brown
James F. Black Co. Inc
Pierre Debs Designer
James Green
Shelba Cornelison Furniture South
Wayne Pierce
Glenn Bitter Southern Furniture News
Art Richardson
Furniture News
Southern Furniture News
Dorothy Harris
Doris Baldwin
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