Wes Kennedy

Moving and Shaking in Las Vegas

The World Market Center kicked off the winter edition of the Las Vegas Market Monday night with cocktail parties in the atriums of all the buildings and outdoors in the courtyard.

Rugmaker Foreign Accents celebrated 25 successful years today in its showroom with a champagne toast and cake cutting. In the group photo (l-r) Pam Witt, Foreign Accents; Sharon Graves and Gene Joyce, Arcata Exchange of Arcata, Calif.; Patricia Rempen, Foreign Accents (cutting the cake); Stan Hirsch; Sally Price-Brittenham, Foreign Accents. Hirsch, a blues guitarist, performed in the showroom throughout the day. Foreign Accents was founded in Santa Fe, N.M. in 1984 by Patricia (Trish) and Wolfgang Rempen. 


Home accent source Chelsea House has relocated to Building A this week.

The company, now in WMC A-109, was previously in Building B.

Abbyson is welcoming guests this week for a look at its new home furnishings and rug collections, as well as for a drink in its popular bistro area at the rear of the showroom. WMC C-196

Artist Felippo Ioco, left, paints a model at the ICA Home Decor/Art in Motion showroom on Tuesday. WMC B-562


Jason Phillips, left, The Phillips Collection; Jenny Heinzen York, Home Accents Today; Richard Tomkins, Crescent Fine Furniture; and Andrew Palecek, Palecek, at the Young Home Furnishings Professionals mixer Monday evening in the Phillips Collection showroom, WMC A-202.

Randy Stewart, left, of GE Financial and Randy Lann, President of Arkansas Home Furniture Association are joined by the ever-colorful, Slush.

Slush enjoys a hearty laugh with Greg Montgomery, left, and Bryan Whitmire both of Furniture Factory Outlet, Muldrow, Okla.

Posted by Wes Kennedy on February 11, 2009 | Comments (0)