Carolinas Chapter
The Carolinas Chapter
The Carolinas Chapter is based in High Point, North Carolina, providing you access to the broadest spectrum of goods and services in the home furnishings industry.
We offer up-to-the-minute professional programming to maximize you and your company's growth potential.
Open to all professionals in the furnishings and design fields, giving you the widest view on industry happenings.
Supporting education through college scholarships, professional grants, and educational programming.
For more information on the Carolinas Chapter, please contact our Membership VP by using the links to the left under chapter officer
IFDA sponsored events at Market, April-
Growing A Business Environmentally
When: Noon - 1:30 PM, Sunday, April 22
Where: IHFC, Green Wing, 11th Floor Ballroom B
Summary: Mitchell Gold, Co-founder and Chair-Man of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. Mitchell will describe the inspiration behind his entrepreneurial venture with Bob Williams which was launched 23 years ago in the midst of a recession, and what compelled them to build a different kind of furniture company – a company organized around the concept of ‘Comfort’ and what that means to consumers, employees, and the environment. Sponsored by IHFC and IFDA, Carolinas Chapter. $20 includes lunch. Advance registration recommended. Email lchastain@imcenters.com.
Allison Paladino: Why The Bad Economy Has Been The Best Thing for My Business
When: Noon - 1 PM, Monday, April 23
Where: IHFC, Green Wing, 11th Floor ballroom B
Summary: Internationally acclaimed designer, Allison Paladino, presents a provocative discussion on what’s important now, from the creative process to building your personal brand as a designer, and why the Recession may actually be the best thing that ever happened to her high-end interior design business. With a sharp wit and a healthy dose of humor, Allison shares her personal story, from landing her first job directly out of design school with Thomas Pheasant, to being named “One of America’s 25 Top Young Designers by House Beautiful,” to launching her own highly successful design practice. Sponsored by IHFC and IFDA, Carolinas Chapter. $20 includes lunch. Advance registration recommended. Reservation is secured upon receipt of payment. Email: lchastain@imcenters.com
May 19 TOUR OF REYNOLDA HOUSE IN WINSTON SALEM
(Note, this is a date change) 10:30am, we will be touring the Reynolda House in Winston Salem, NC. After the tour we will head down the road for a wonderful lunch at The RiverBirch Lodge. The tour of the home is free for members. The tour is $10.00 for guests/non-members. After lunch, you may head back to Reynolda to tour the gardens and shop.
Historic House & Museum
Reynolda House Museum of American Art displays a premier collection of American art ranging from the colonial period to the present. Built in 1917 by Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the house originally occupied the center of a 1,067-acre estate. It opened to the public as an institution dedicated to the arts and education in 1965, and as an art museum in 1967.
Reynolda was the home of two generations of the Reynolds family. In 1935, Mary Reynolds Babcock, the elder daughter, acquired the estate. She and her husband Charlie Babcock used the house as their vacation home until 1948 at which time they moved permanently to Reynolda. The property remained in the family for nearly fifty years. The museum has restored interior rooms and furnishings to reflect the periods when the family lived here.
Today, a large portion of Reynolda can be explored on foot. In addition to the house, twenty-eight of the original thirty buildings remain. To the west lie the restored formal gardens, noted for their Japanese cryptomeria and weeping cherry trees. The sixteen-acre lake behind the house has reverted to wetlands, which provide a home for a variety of wildlife. Many of the buildings in the village are now occupied by shops and restaurants. A short walk across the dam leads from the village to Wake Forest University built on land donated to the college by Mary and Charlie Babcock. Read more about Wake Forest's move to Winston-Salem, and watch a 1951 NBC News story on the groundbreaking.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
RECEPTION TO HONOR ANNIE BEUKER, HPU
RAYMOND WAITES DESIGN COMPETITION WINNER
APRIL HIGH POINT FURNITURE MARKET
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
The Carolinas honored Pat Plaxico, noted designer, historical restoration expert. Pat was the recepient of our 2011 Luminary Award. Friends and Industry executives joined us as we celebrated a "Night of Luminaries". Also recognized were six "Rising Stars" , senior design students that were nominated by their schools.
