Whats the news from High Point, N.C., the furniture capital of the world?
What’s old is the news from the latest International Home Furnishings Market, where some 12 million square feet of exhibit space ran through 188 buildings. It’s no surprise that much of what you see there has been inspired by bygone times, 17th-, 18th-and 19th-century styles redolent of every King Louis, every English monarch, every new idea that ever furnished a room anywhere in the world, it seems. From the Shakers to the Spanish, from Colonial Williamsburg and the Caribbean Islands to the Mediterranean, the furniture industry has mined and remade every nuance of the past. Some designers have left the 18th and 19th centuries and leaped into the 20th. Not counting the war years, almost every decade from the turn of the 20th century to the turn of the 21st was revived by one manufacturer or another. We found the first decade, from 1900 to 1910 or so, alive and looking rich in the Arts and Crafts ideas inspired by California architects Charles and Henry Greene and translated into the Pa
