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And as ever, I'm in awe of everything that she has going on, from how busy she is with her design firm, expanding her retail empire and launching a whole new business and brand as well, which I won't give away.

But all the while, while going to see furniture production all over the world and also show up at High Point Market and just be incredibly kind to the myriad of people that line up to have their picture taken with Amber Lewis, which she is always so gracious about.

Yeah, I mean, I feel like sometimes there's this perception that celebrities in any field are maybe not really like their persona.

I think we can attest to, no, Amber Lewis really is that nice.

And if you look at the major trade shows and just coming off of High Point just recently, the numbers in terms of attendance, for the most part, pretty good and pretty consistent.

But where you continue to see the decline is in the number of retailers that are showing up at market.

And so I think this is the big story and I think will be the big story coming forward because you talk to a lot of these High Point companies and they say, well, what where am I going to be putting all this product? Who's going to be selling all of this? And great that designers have increased to now be 60% of high point market or whatever the numbers are, but they need retailers.

They need products on huge floors.

I don't want the bags.

Now, Design Legacy at High Point Market He shares gorgeous bags.

There is not any branding on them.

And I teased Kelly about it.

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High Point Market.

Nice.

I know.

Caitlyn, our editor-in-chief, Caitlyn Peterson, she's gonna be at the High Point Theater Saturday at 3:00 PM.

She'll be talking to the leaders of the High Point Market Authority and the NKBA.

And Dennis, you will be at the High Point Theater the next day, Sunday at 3:00, with Jeremiah Brent, great hair, Gene Stopher, and Amber Lewis to judge the Best of Design contest.

And do you have that big novelty check for the $10,000 that's gonna be handed out to one lucky winner?

It was so, it was so interesting.

I knew much of the story, but he filled me in on so many fun details of him leaving his big old job at Century Furniture way back in 2008 to go off to Las Vegas and the Las Vegas market, only to discover they were in pretty dire financial [laughs] shape.

And, uh, and, and he spent the next few years, uh, turning it around and, and actually creating a, an entity that it would involve many of the buildings at High Point Market, as well as Las Vegas, and ultimately parts of Atlanta as well.

So he built, uh, quite a sprawling operation.

Very blessed.

We're here kind of at the start of the fall high point market and what people called when I first arrived here the furniture market, but it's now just the high point market.

I'm wondering how Furniture Land South approaches the furniture market itself, considering it's right here in your backyard.

Do y'all have teams of buyers who go over there and buy things? And the reason I ask that, because I also know you have relationships with manufacturers already to show their products.

Kathy Kuo is here.

She was a trendsetter at High Point Market in 2026, and she's back this October.

And if you have ever wandered the, I don't know, millions of square feet that are High Point, boy, oh boy.

Following a trendsetter whose style you admire can be a really good way to figure out where to go.