New Lighting Collabs With Designers

The lighting category provides a fertile creative playground for designers, with several brand-designer partnerships debuting and expanding during High Point Market.

By Julie A. Palm

High Point Market is always replete with interesting product collaborations between designers and brands that stretch both parties in new directions — and this spring is no exception.

This isn’t a comprehensive list, but I wanted to note a few.

High Point marketgoers will get their first chance to see luxury home furnishings brand Eichholtz’s first-ever designer collaboration with interior designer Corey Damen Jenkins — and it happens to be a lighting line.

“Decorative lighting has always been the ‘jewelry’ of a room, yet the category has felt creatively stagnant,” Jenkins says. “I wanted to disrupt that — and Eichholtz was the perfect partner to break the mold and create something unexpected.”

The line, which debuted internationally at Maison & Object in January, includes more than 30 table and floor lamps, sconces, pendants and chandeliers.

Jenkins drew inspiration for the line from a host of sources — ancient civilizations, organic elements like florals and alabaster, celestial references and design movements, including art deco and neoclassicism — and imagines it all through a modern lens.

Home furnishings brand Four Hands is expanding its three-year partnership with designer Amber Lewis into lighting for the first time. The line of more than 50 pieces includes table and floor lamps, sconces, pendants and chandeliers, with finishes like mappa burl and marble adding texture and richness.

“We don’t expand for the sake of it; we focus on what the market truly needs,” says Adam Dunn, senior vice president of design for Four Hands. “As our fastest-growing category, lighting felt like a natural next step. Lighting plays a defining role in shaping a home’s atmosphere and offers a new way to explore and expand our shared design ethos.”

According to Four Hands, one goal with the Amber Lewis line was to create lighting that anchors a room. One unique piece is a bookshelf lamp that serves as both lighting element and practical bookend.

During this market, home furnishings and accessories brand Arteriors is debuting a capsule collection of furniture, accessories and lighting with interior designer Barry Dixon. The collection is rooted in organic shapes, sculptural silhouettes and refined materiality. Some pieces, including an oversized Muscadine floor lamp, are inspired by the designer’s farm in Virginia.

“We look back to see our way forward … and we look outside to find what we need inside. Each detail unfolds to reveal a world of gothic glamour that provokes the senses,” Dixon says of the line.

Varaluz is debuting its latest collaboration with interior designer Kristi Hopper during High Point Market. The Petal Reign collection, including chandelier, pendant and sconce, nods to botanical elegance and incorporates recycled materials.

“Petal Reign wears its crown lightly — but never quietly,” Hopper says. “We wanted to celebrate the beauty of repetition and botanical forms while honoring materials that are responsibly sourced and thoughtfully made. Strength doesn’t have to shout — it can be elegant, sustainable and powerful all at once.”

Corbett Lighting is unveiling its latest collection with designer Noz Nozawa for High Point marketgoers. Look for her signature chain details, as well as organic materials like handwoven rattan, bleached abaca and alabaster. The lighting brand describes the new collection of chandeliers, pendants and sconces as “a softer, more natural evolution” of Nozawa’s debut jewelry-inspired line.

“The result is a series of sculptural, expressive fixtures that feel both grounded and adorned,” the company says.

Pooky is extending its relationship with British textile designer Ellen Merchant for a third collection of handmade lampshades launching this month. New designs include Palmette, Posy, Poppies and Spriglee — all based on Merchant’s latest fabric and wallpaper patterns. Earth tones ground the brighter hues in the collection.

Merchant says, “We’ve sought to reimagine the traditional spring floral by pairing playful botanical silhouettes with an English countryside palette.”