Considering the abundance of product launches, panels, workshops and parties that pack the Market calendar biannually, one of the most significant features of the industry’s biggest sourcing event can go unnoticed: namely that a number of showrooms are exclusive to High Point, not to be found at any other design fair. But for several brands—ranging from spunky upstarts to absolute stalwarts of the sector—the nearly weeklong North Carolina extravaganza, happening from October 25 to 29 this fall, is the only place to be. And it’s one reason why Washington, D.C.–area designer Jewel Marlowe hasn’t missed a Market in years.

“We drive down early in our old cars—the big ones that you can fit a lot of furniture in,” says Marlowe, who is returning to High Point next month as a designated Styl

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