For those of you who attend the upcoming International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, North Carolina next week, we think we have an amazing treat for you! Our showroom is being installed over the next week. In addition to the pieces we show from each of our collections, we are premiering the introduction of The Library Collection by Thomas O'Brien in celebration of the 10th anniversary of this landmark collection by Hickory Chair.
This new collection grew out of O’Brien’s personal collecting and designing for a new studio-library that he is building in the garden of his Long Island house. The furniture that he has been gathering for this space led to ideas for a type of ‘curated’ group for Hickory Chair – the kind of things one might bring home from wonderful travels, or uncover in favorite small antique shops. The setting of a personal library becomes symbolic, for in this type of space, furniture can be at its best: comfortable and deeply loungeful, formal enough to receive special guests, generous with places to display treasures, relaxed yet elegant and worldly. And, such furniture pieces are often equal to the surrounding artifacts – they are collected objects themselves.
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