Passport to Design - Century Furniture

CENTURY FURNITURE

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 7:13 pm 37 degrees

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I really like attending the events at 200 Lexington.  The New York Design Center seems to be welcoming a variety of new tenants and a new season of designers are following.

My good friend Dwayne Clark (new manager at Century) encouraged me to attend the gathering of the eclectic mix of 2nd floor showrooms and 1st class designers.  A variety of wines and specialty drinks (delicious Mojitos) were served with scrumptious tray pass hors d'oeuvres.  About 75 people mingled at this "passport to design" event.

Harley Ferguson Shuford, Sr. established Century Furniture Company in 1947 as a selling agent for local upholstery lines. A year later, he built a casegoods plant in Hickory, North Carolina and manufactured an 18th century style mahogany dining suite that shipped the following January. Today Century’s Wood Products Division offers a variety of styles comprised of more than 700 different items.

In the twisted 1980's, Century moved its showroom from Hickory to the Market Square Building in High Point. Today the 85,000 square foot showroom takes up the entire fifth floor of the building, where Century's full line of furniture is shown during the semi-annual International Home Furnishings Market each April and October. Century owns and operates showrooms for the design trade and has agent showrooms in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Dania FL, New York, Philadelphia, Scottsdale AZ, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Laguna Niguel, CA.

Thank you Century, Grange and Lexington showrooms for the cool, elegant gathering at one of our favorite NYC design buildings.

design discussions with Alix Lerman (200 Lex)
and Jason Kontos (New York Spaces Mag)

Talented blogger and Interior Designer: Patrick Hamilton 

Century Showroom Manager, Dwayne Clark schmoozes with everyone at 
the Passport to Design event.

handsome Jaithan Kochar

furniture experts Rick Watts and Jim Burke

IFDA in the house with Deborah Martin, Su Hilty and Andrea Algaze

Patrick Hamilton and Dwayne Clark (Showroom manager of CENTURY)

Matthew Kusniar and Elissa Grayer (Elissa Grayer Interior Design)

Carmen Wick, Gary Kanter, Sandra Cohen and Ninett Atndel

love these original fashion illustrations . . . . 

friendly Fran Dippolito stamps my passport which means I could win a 
$500 gift certificate from Bergdorf Goodman

workin' the stripes is Adriana Kubes

 If the world can't see us having passion in "doing what we do" 
then life would be boring and "WE DON"T DO BORING!"  - Dwayne Clark

Kenneth Wampler (Founder & Executive Director of The Alpha Workshops)

not a couple but they look good together . . . . Luigi and Olga

not a couple but they look good together .. . .John and Rick

thank you Adriana for taking this nice picture of Dwayne, Patrick and me !!!