ATLANTA – Customized upholstery producer Norwalk Furnishings will open its first showroom ever in AmericasMart Atlanta.
The 4,500-square-foot location, 14F areas 5, 7 and eight, is on the tradeshow heart’s 14th flooring of Constructing 1. Tamara Lockman will function showroom supervisor. Norwalk, primarily based in Norwalk, Ohio, already had longstanding illustration at AmericasMart by way of the Charles Ray and Associates designer showroom, and that relationship will proceed.
“We’re proper throughout the corridor from Charles Ray, they usually’ll have the ability to deliver their designers over,” Hipple mentioned. “We simply felt we wanted to have our personal presence there to take advantage of the market and year-round for the regional design commerce.”
In Atlanta, Norwalk will mannequin the showroom primarily based on its success with a location within the Las Vegas Design Middle at World Market Middle.
“We’ve had such a great expertise being open year-round in Las Vegas promoting to the commerce, plus markets,” Hipple mentioned. “The showrooms are about the identical dimension, so we all know the mannequin. We’ll be a great useful resource for Southeastern retailers, and individuals are coming from all around the world to Atlanta to buy items, so we need to faucet into that.”
On a year-round foundation, Atlanta ought to show a powerful location for serving the design commerce within the Southeast, and Hipple famous the Atlanta metropolitan space alone ought to show a powerful base of designer enterprise.
“The Atlanta area has 7 million individuals, so we’ll serve that neighborhood as nicely,” Hipple mentioned. “Plus, I dwell in Atlanta, so will probably be nice to have a presence in my very own yard.”
Norwalk will have a good time the brand new AmericasMart showroom with a cocktail celebration the night of July 15, in the course of the summer season Atlanta Market, July 13-19.
I am Powell Slaughter, senior editor at Furnishings/In the present day. I returned to the publication in January 2015 after 9 years of writing about furnishings retail methods and finest practices at a month-to-month journal specializing in dwelling furnishings retail operations. Previous to that, I spent 10 years with F/T protecting wooden furnishings, the final 5 of these as case items editor. Upon my return to F/T, I developed protection of the logistical and repair facets of the furnishings trade in addition to following the occasional, dwelling workplace and residential leisure classes. In April 2018 I took over the upholstery class, with accountability for protection of the material and leather-based stationary and movement upholstery, recliners and therapeutic massage chair classes.