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Retail Furniture News: Bradington-Young Expands Into Premium Reclining Chair Category at High Point Market, Among the new designs are three Defy Gravity recliners Sky, Cloud and Celestial. ....
Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 6/1/2021 Luxury upholstery specialist Bradington-Young, a division of Hooker Furnishings, reports that they will debut a line of fully customizable, domestically manufactured office chairs at this year’s Spring High Point Market. Called “Home Office BY Design,” the collection is being offered in response to the increased demand for home office furniture driven by pandemic related work-from-home trends. Fully customizable, consumers can personalize their office chairs in more than 400 options – including any combination of fabrics, leathers, novelty leathers and chair base colors – to coordinate with their home décor.
“Working from home is no longer just a response to the pandemic, it has become a way of doing business for many companies. Consumers understand this permanency and are upgrading their home office environments to align its design ....
Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 5/13/2021 Luxury leather upholstery producer Bradington-Young, a division of Hooker Furnishings, will add four additional products to its highly successful Plaza Midwood collection as the company continues to target HENRYs (high earners, not rich yet) among Gen X and millennial consumers. The new products will be introduced at the upcoming High Point Market.
Plaza Midwood, offers smaller, yet functional pieces with an updated style aesthetic and appeals to those who live in loft-style spaces or homes with open floor plans who can spend more money.
“Through our research, we know that customization and modern design are both important to younger consumers and are becoming increasingly desirable to other target audiences who are able to purchase quality furnishings that last longer and are customized to fit their needs,” said Cheryl Sigmon, vice p ....
In furniture factories today, companies tout their cleaner atmospheres, well-lit plant floors and skilled positions theyâre looking to fill. Technology enhances the work. Twenty years ago, the furniture industry was much different. At the turn of the century, a large chunk of the furniture manufacturing jobs in the Catawba Valley were building case goods â wooden furniture or frames. Within 10 years, the majority of those jobs moved offshore, Craftmaster Furniture President and CEO Roy Calcagne said in a December interview. Many furniture manufacturing jobs left the area, and Catawba County wasnât alone. The industry that remains has evolved and is growing â even more rapidly at the end of 2020 than before the COVID-19 pandemic started, furniture leaders say. ....