Ca Boom to open East Coast show in High Point
Contemporary design trade show to open in October
-- Home Accents Today, 4/8/2008 7:19:00 AM
The CA Boom Design Show, a West Coast design trade show and exhibition, has chosen the fal
l 2008 High Point Market in North Carolina to launch its first-ever East Coast show, CA Boom East.
The new show will be held at the latest showroom complex in High Point: The Mills Village, formerly the Highland Yard Hosiery Mill turned the most significant LEED project in North Carolina’s state history, which also houses the premiere flagship showroom for Cisco Brothers.
CA Boom East will open at the Fall ’08 High Point Market Oct. 20-26 in a new flexible showroom space at Mills Village located at 1014 Mills Avenue, High Point, N.C.
CA Boom Design Show creator and executive producer Charles Trotter (shown above, right, in front of the new complex with Eric O'Leary, Cisco project manager, and Cisco Pinedo, owner of Cisco Bros., center) selected the High Point Market as the location for a new design show which will showcase strictly modern, non-traditional products that are authentically designed and manufactured in the designer’s origin country.
“The High Point Marketplace, continues to have the track record of consistently attracting the world’s most important furniture buyers,” Trotter said. “We see the High Point Market as the center and the future of where real furniture is made and sold and we are very excited to be associated with such a prestigious event.”
Brian D. Casey, president and chief executive of the High Point Market Authority said, “The CA Boom Design Show represents the next generation of contemporary designers and manufacturers and we are thrilled to have CA Boom East involved with High Point Market. CA Boom will be complementary to where High Point is already positioned with the high-end designer community. It is clear that CA Boom’s selection of High Point for their new show location further validates our claim as the ‘Worlds Home for Home Furnishings.’”
Trotter is attending the spring ’08 High Point Market through Wednesday at the new Cisco Brothers High Point showroom: Cisco at the Mills Village, 1014 Mills Avenue, High Point, N.C.
On display will be numerous pieces from past CA Boom exhibitors to offer a sampling of the contemporary designers that have participated at the show including: PIE, Bottega Montana, Dellarobia, Magis/ Leif Peterson, Not Neutral, Clay & Wood, Areawear, Motoart, Jonathan Ferrera Gallery,and Motoart.
