A taste of High Point, NC and the furniture shows!

I have just returned from four fun-filled days in High Point, NC where I gallivanted about the twice-annual furniture shows. Yours truly is totally not jaded about his biannual southern sojourns, in fact I love doing market. It's like old friends week! Such fun!

HIGHLIGHTS

-Driving down to HP in a kitted-out Lexus. It parked itself.

-Bethanne. Matari. Two words that equal party overload. To quote the coquette-ish Ms. Matari, "I love this chicken, but she's a bitch."

-The House Beautiful BBQ at the magazine's wildly chic "home" on Emerywood Drive. Gobs of old friends plus Ina Garten's cooking.

-The Domino cocktail party at Sammy G's courtyard. Deborah Needleman and Beth Brenner, Domino's doyennes, are the two coolest cats around. Fabulous fun!

-Shimmer!

-Metallic leathers!

-Rich green leathers!

-Graphic florals!

-Christine Phillips: If you don't know the public relations glamour guru behind such brands as Barclay Butera and Woodson and Rummerfield, you should meet her and pronto! Smart, chic, stylish... The grooviest gal in town.

-The Dog House: The world's best hamburgers. And hello to our fellow diner, the lovely Robin Richter.

-Mayberry: A fabulous throwback diner across from the hoity-toity Emerywood where you queue up forever for a table.

-Ubiquitous fabrics! Remember that cherry blossom a few seasons back? See the chair to the right. Somehow the chair uploads to a weird color on my blog... It was actually a brown shade but looks blue here. OK, so I am not an IT guru...

-Dinner with Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams and the inimitable Eloise Goldman! Eloise is the tops.

OTHER NOTES:

-Poor Margaret Russell! We wish her a speedy recovery.

-KC and the Sunshine band are not dead.

-Newell Turner and Stephen Drucker are TOO nice. Adore them! Gracious, lovely.