The Top 10 Trends of High Point Fall 2023

We always head to High Point Market with the goal of making new relationships, seeing new products, meeting new vendors, and of course uncovering the emerging trends so that we can offer the best value to our clients! This year we decided to go a few days before the market officially opened so we could see even more throughout the market including the shops and showrooms that offer vintage and imported items from Europe.  We led a successful Insiders Tour for designers new to High Point, opened new accounts, saw old friends, and noted the top trends which we will share today!    KEY TAKEAWAYS: Watch for the color combinations of spice, terracotta, ochre, blush and slate blue to become prevalent in fabrics, art and finishes. A gallery of interesting art collections are a go to way to fill a large wall. Small textile prints are coming back but it’s not Grandma style!    RESOURCE LINKS: Kandrac & Kole Website Kandrac & Kole on Instagram Kandrac & Kole on YouTube   BIO:  Kandrac & Kole was voted one of Atlanta’s Top 20 Residential Interior Designs by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and has been featured on HGTV as well as in The New York Times, Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Home Magazine, and many others as well as participants of the One Room Challenge Spring 2020. Kandrac & Kole has established a well-known reputation for their approachable, dynamic personalities, signature use of color and pattern, and one-of-a-kind, custom designs. As industry experts for residential and commercial design, Joann Kandrac & Kelly Kole share upbeat and entertaining narratives regarding their design projects, travels, and personal stories on their popular blog, their podcast, and via national speaking engagements. Joann and Kelly’s love and commitment to the power of interior design also extends towards their charity work throughout the U.S. and Guatemala. SPONSOR:  Today’s episode is sponsored by Esteem Media. Esteem Media is a brand that believes that commerce can be maximized among luxury businesses by creating and sharing content that adds value to online and offline business networks. They specialize in connecting national and local businesses in the luxury home design and fine wine arenas. We want to thank Esteem Media for partnering with the High Point Market Authority and inviting us to be Insider Tour Guides for the fourth time in this market. We, along with 6 other experienced designers, led curated tours for designers brand new to High Point. We had designers from 5 states on our tour of this market and it was a blast. Esteem Media will continue to offer these tours for every market so watch for details at https://www.highpointmarket.org/insiderstour. Next up for Esteem Media is the Luxury Home Design Summit, which will be held May 20-22 at the Chatham Bars Inn in Chatham, Mass. This unique event is focused on helping passionate and creative architects, interior design principals, landscape architects and designers, builders, contractors, and showroom operators who serve the luxury design market. It sells out quickly and registration is now open so go to: https://luxuryhomedesignsummit.com. We will join you there! To find out more about other upcoming conferences and designer showhouses (particularly the Home for the Holidays showhouse here in Atlanta), go to https://esteemmedia.com.   QUOTES:  Funny Quote “I love sweatshirt season. Am I wearing a bra? Who knows. Am I wearing what I wore to bed under it? Maybe.” - Unknown Serious Quote In honor of our Jewish friends, clients and colleagues and all of the innocent people suffering in Israel, Gaza and Palestine, we pray for you and offer this quote: “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be. I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief, I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and I am free.” - Wendell Berry