FRINGE BENEFITS
HIGH POINT N.C. — Furniture and home accessories now have fringe benefits.
Dangling embellishments have found their way from fashion runways to furniture showrooms, hanging from lamps, chairs and even credenzas. Once used liberally on Victorian and Edwardian furnishings, fringe is often gathered into tassels or hanging from the skirts of chairs.
Currey & Company just introduced a new chest of drawers with leather tassel pulls, and Oomph, known for its extensive lacquer collection, offers contrasting colored tassel pulls on its Easton nightstand and chest. Buyers can choose from a variety of colors for the pulls and lacquer. At the Fall Market in High Point, Oomph showed gray lacquer with pink pulls and orange lacquer with navy pulls.
“Fringe is never completely out of fashion and appears on handbags and evening wear regularly, so in today’s world of maximalism and the ’70s revival as inspiration, it is only natural that it will show up in home furnishings,” said Cecil Adams, creative director at Currey & Company.
The company also adds a denim and fine chain fringe to its Boho chandelier.
“We have chosen to show it as brass and leather tassels on our new Nicolene collection with a nod to handbag hardware,” he added.
Other manufacturers hanging on the fringe include SHO Modern and Lee Industries.
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