HIGH POINT — Backlogs might be at record levels, but showrooms showcasing stationary upholstery still will have a good round of fresh product for buyers to see at June High Point Market.
When those new goods will hit retail floors largely entails manufacturers catching up on existing orders and getting back up to speed after raw materials shortages kept them from utilizing production capacity at necessary levels.
Still, upholstery in particular remains a fashion business in furniture, and vendors look to offer fresh styles and expand upon popular configurations that will help retailers refresh their floors, even if the overall number of introductions submitted to Furniture Today was a bit lighter than usual. That only makes sense these days.
June upholstery action continues some recent trends. Those include renewed attention among resources that until the past year had often emphasized motion, the ongoing popularity of modular configurations, a concentration on deeper and plusher seating comfort, and a predomination of very casual contemporary leaning and transitional styles designed for relaxed living.
Cover treatments tend toward the simple, with a range of weltless seams, more two- or single-seat sofas, and broad, flat covers showing off texture. It’s gotten to the point where channel tufting is as elaborate as it gets in a lot of showrooms.
Color palettes lean toward creamy neutrals; colors with a softer, watercolor or pastel tone; and relaxed but sensual textures such as bouclé, linen and velvet.
A soft touch
Bernhardt’s upholstery introductions, which this season take a page from the company’s design-oriented Interiors line in style and cover textures and tones, exemplifies just about all those trends.
Bernhadt’s fourth iteration of the Bernhardt Plush upholstery selection include five sofas and a sectional, incorporates Interiors-like textures such as shearlings, and cleaner lines and contours on big scale frames with deep, wide seating, weltless cushions and subtly dramatic shapes on arms and backs.
Fabrics include a low-pile but soft-handed linen look, dry wovens with a hint of wool and soft, textured chenille. Bernhardt also continues to expand its selection of cleanable leathers that still have the look and feel of anilines.
Casual elegance is the byline this market at James by Jimmy DeLaurentis, where the premium Milan Collection draws on luxury menswear for cover inspiration offers layers of texture through velvet, mohair, wools and textured leather, with a blend of solids and plaids on a neutral color palette of grays as well as deep chocolate browns.
At Porter Designs, plush comfort and cream tones in fabric and leather, respectively, characterize the Big Chill sofa collection in textured microfiber and the transitional Anzio sofa, loveseat and chair in soft, top-quality cream leather with leather match. A contrast of black and cream shows up in the transitional Reese collection in a black-and-cream woven poly fabric accented with black abstract pillows.
Other on-trend tones and textures at Porter include the Savannah sectional’s gray chenille; the tufted-seat Arcadia sectional’s woven oatmeal fabric; and the teal woven poly fabric on the Mid-Century Modern Hutton sofa.
Another look at stationary
A number of vendors often known more for their motion lines are paying more attention to stationary seating in light of high demand at retail.
For example, all three upholstery introductions at Flexsteel Inds., which does big motion business, are stationary sofa groups. Those include the traditional-leaning Maxwell with rolled arms and turned wood legs; Mitchell with sock arms and square tapered legs, and Madden, whose track arms and square leg offers cleaner more modern lines.
All are available in a choice of more than 750 fabrics and three leg finishes to take the pieces in various style and lifestyle directions.
Abbyson’s iTable series and other tech-focused motion pieces have gotten a lot of attention at the company, but June introductions include the three-piece Taverly group, a Mid-Century Modern-inspired offering in camel-tone leather featuring flared, tapered legs, clean lines and neutral earthy tones, accented with walnut brown wood trim across the frame and legs.
The Quinton sofa in 100% top grain leather’s deep comfort and neutral gray or blue covers also reflect a lot of what upholstery buyers will see.
Premium motion predominates in the Bradington-Young line, but as with the past couple of seasons, stationary is at the forefront. Additions to the Plaza Midwood collection include two curved conversation sofas that address both the ongoing popularity of sectionals and the curved silhouettes reflecting comfort-centered lifestyles.
Additional new items include two-over-two versions of the existing studio-scaled and regularly scaled sofas in the program.
And another often motion-centric resource, Nice Link Home Furnishings has three stationary introductions at market. Two are sectionals: the modern JR018 sectional, designed to configure to any room size and available in a big range of covers; and another modern modular group, the 9599 sectional sectional with tapered wood legs and single blind tufting on back cushions. Button tufting, stitch details and brushed metal legs accent the third offering, the 9592 sofa.
Coordinating, complementing production
Domestic producers also are getting creative at gearing introductions toward easier production. An example of that is Klaussner’s new domestic introduction, the Curated Collection by Distinctions, which takes a relatively small number of SKUs and uses variations on features such as arms and covers to offer a line with 250 effective pieces.
Norwalk Furniture has invested in equipment that allows it to more easily offer different scales on similar pieces, with several introductions sizable to suit varying living spaces. For example, in addition to incorporating on-style curved arms, low tight back and single bench cushion, the Lynn sofa is available in 90- and 78-inch sizes.
The Milano with leather-covered storage cabinets supporting the arms comes in an 86-inch version or a big-scale 109-inch two-section sofa. The channeled-tufted Roma sofa comes in loveseat, condo and full sofa sizes, while the modern Athens sofa with single loose back and seat cushions is another space-considering piece available at 72 or 84 inches.
Multi-line companies also are drawing upon their respective brands’ resources to create whole-home offerings combining bedroom, dining, occasional and upholstery into a single collection.
Hooker Furnishings Corp.’s Sam Moore Furniture unit has June introductions that include its first line designed to coordinate with a sister division’s case goods offering, Hooker Furniture’s casual contemporary Chapman collection.
The upholstery for Chapman comprises two contemporary sofa styles with Sam Moore’s first-ever metal accents, a sectional with exposed wood legs complementing the case goods finish; and four accent chairs including a metal-accented slipper chair, a shaped armless chair, a wing chair and a transitional swivel chair with a barrel back swivel chair and an exposed wood base.
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