High Point, North Carolina has built its identity around furniture for more than a century, hosting the biannual High Point Market that draws designers and buyers from around the world, and the Antique and Design Center of High Point, located at 316 West Commerce Avenue, operates inside that same furniture-industry backdrop as a multi-dealer marketplace for antiques and design pieces. Rather than a single owner’s collection, the center is built around a roster of independent exhibitors, each renting space to display and sell their own antiques, vintage furnishings, and design objects, a model similar to the antique malls and design districts found throughout the Piedmont Triad but positioned specifically toward the design trade that High Point is known for nationally.
The center actively recruits new dealers through a formal exhibitor application process, a sign that its vendor roster is not fixed but continues to grow and turn over as new sellers bring in fresh inventory. That structure means the mix of merchandise on the floor at any given time reflects whatever combination of dealers currently hold space there, spanning traditional antiques through more contemporary design-forward pieces, an approach the center itself references with language pointing toward a modern antiquarian sensibility, blending old and new rather than sticking strictly to period-correct antiques.
One detail that connects the center to the broader design resale market is its relationship with Chairish, the online marketplace that connects vintage and antique dealers with designers and shoppers well beyond a shop’s physical footprint. For dealers operating out of the High Point center, that kind of online sales channel extends their reach past the people who walk through the Commerce Avenue doors, letting pieces found in a High Point booth find buyers working on projects anywhere in the country, which fits naturally with High Point’s role as a national, rather than purely local, furniture and design destination.
The center also maintains a blog with periodic updates and notes from its ownership, giving shoppers and dealers alike a way to follow what is happening at the center between market seasons, whether that is operational news or reflections on the antiques trade itself. That kind of ongoing communication is more typical of a design-industry business that sees itself as part of a professional trade community than a purely walk-in retail shop, which lines up with the center’s location in a city built around trade shows and industry relationships rather than tourist foot traffic alone.
For designers, collectors, or shoppers making the trip to High Point around Market season, or simply passing through the Piedmont Triad in search of antique and vintage design pieces, the Antique and Design Center offers a concentrated stop where multiple independent dealers’ inventories can be browsed under a single roof on Commerce Avenue, with the added benefit of dealers who often list overlapping inventory online for buyers who cannot visit in person.
The Antique and Design Center of High Point is a multi-dealer antiques and design marketplace on West Commerce Avenue in High Point, North Carolina, the city long known as the Furniture Capital of the World.
