Blog: Postcards from the corner of High Point and Hollywood
Remembering a few ‘brushes with the stars’ If you’re familiar with “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” the parlor game in which any actor can be …
Author: Brian Carroll
Brian Carroll covered the international home furnishings industry for 15 years as a reporter, editor and photographer. He chairs the Department of Communication at Berry College in Northwest Georgia, where he has been a professor since 2003.
Blog: A silver lining in the dark clouds of shipping delays
National media attention helping consumers better understand the supply chain Just as the industry prepares for the High Point Market this month, national business news …
Blog: Tuesdays with Clint
The Tupelo furniture market, the fraternity of the newsroom and the love of our lives Spoiler alert: This column reveals the plot twist at the …
Blog: ‘Who should I give $1 million to?’
How the Celia Moh Scholarship at HPU came about One of the more unlikely days I ever spent as a reporter covering the international home …
Blog: How a Wayfair court case altered the legal landscape
Looking back at South Dakota v. Wayfair Three years ago last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in South Dakota v. Wayfair that individual states …
Blog: How to get news coverage
Let’s start with the press release One of the more memorable phone calls I received as a rookie reporter covering home furnishings came from a …
Blog: ‘We don’t manufacture anything!’
How furniture today is like a pair of Air Jordans, and not in a good way Thomasville upholstery on sale at Costco? Broyhill available exclusively …
Blog: The staying power of midcentury modern
Explaining why midcentury modern is everywhere Like most fashion-influenced, design-centric industries, furniture is cyclical. Every 20 years or so, styles return, albeit to varying degrees …
Paying it forward: Mentorship the glue of the industry
Mike Genrich’s passing reminds us of the industry’s enduring humanity By Brian Carroll When Home News Now publisher Rick Harrison asked whether I might be …
The moon or bust: Vietnam’s surprising ascendancy
During a visit to Singapore two decades ago, I asked Larry Moh, founder of Universal Furniture Inds. and a pioneer in Southeast Asian furniture manufacturing, …
