High Point: My Sponsor, Hooker Furniture

It has been such a treat to work with the good people at Hooker Furniture, especially Kim Shaver, their PR/Marketing guru. Hooker’s tagline is “Inspiration Can Come From Anywhere” and that’s certainly true with this fall’s collections. It’s also pretty much my philosophy in life!

They had the inspiration to go to Pinterest to see what people women wanted in a collection of furniture, and came up with the Chic Coterie collection. They started with an inspiration board and then built the collection from there.I love clever things, and this collection, in addition to being great-looking, is also filled with clever details.This great dresser is actually a lateral file – so perfect for your home office. Now that I am working from home, I can really appreciate having somewhere good-looking to put my files, instead of spread out in the guest bedroom. 

I loved these display cabinets – not only do they have a classic arched doors, but they also have glass sides and glass shelves, giving them a very light look.

And here’s the clever bit – see the little “touch me” tag? That’s how you turn on the display lights in the cabinet!Tap it once to turn on the light, tap again to brighten the light and then tap to turn the light off!

When I lived in Wales, a lot of the older houses had great Welsh cupboards, and Hooker’s got the modern iteration of that!

Lots of storage, a shelf that pulls out for your laptop, lateral files in the bottom drawers, and the clever bit,a built-in charging station! If you’re like me, you’ve god unsightly cords everywhere and it looks like a mass of black spaghetti, but this neatly solves that problem.

My current desk is a six-foot long commercial kitchen counter, but this desk from the Chic Coterie collection would look perfect in place of that desk. I could sweep all of the papers, pens and pencils, files, computer, lamp, etc. off of the desk and use it as a dining table!

This desk is great, too!

Here are some more of the goodies I saw on my tour of Hooker’s showrooms.

Lots of leather in the most gorgeous colours, like this warm red,

this elegant blue

and this chic celadon (with the adorable Kim Shaver!).

There was even a painted and embossed leather.

Nail-heads were everywhere, providing a great accent to stunning shapes, like this club chair.

Embossed leather mock-croc and nail-head console with great legs.

Seriously, how about this little chest! The nail-heads make it amazing, don’t they?

Hooker’s also doing great things with their finishes, which range from the regatta blue of this bombe chest, to the pearl essence of this chest.

This silver gilt finish chest was really elegant. The finish, the shape and the motif were all superb.The Queen Anne’s lace heads are all hand-painted on each piece.

And how about this sweet chest? It ticks a lot of my boxes – colour, size, shape, finish, hardware…

And you know I am crazy about chairs! Black and white and pink!

Ikat

One of the trends of this Market – menswear fabrics.

Japanese watercolour print.

Wow! I realize I am going to have to do a Part 2 to show you some of the amazing details on Hooker’s pieces. Check back tomorrow!