HD Expo market report

Nicole Crews -- Casual Living, 5/21/2012 8:30:00 AM

LAS VEGAS — The 20th Annual Hospitality Design Expo+Conference unleashed a bevy of contract beauties at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas May 15-17. On-trend color stories of stark white, bold pinks and oranges, driftwood grays and vegetable-dye blues emerged alongside sleek modern framing and industrial chic designs.

HD Expo brought together more than 900 exhibitors and over 7,000 attendees. The three day, design-driven event sets the bar for emerging outdoor looks in both the contract and residential markets.

Twenty-two years ago, Poly-Wood partnered with a local recycling center in Syracuse, Ind., to turn shredded plastic milk jugs into durable all-weather lumber. The company showcased its raw material in glass jars that served as educational and artful display at the Las Vegas show.	POLaRT thinks pink with new upholstered ottomans that take you beyond the looking glass. The oversized, over-the-top styling is rumored to have been picked up by Disney recently for a new theme park installation.
Vladimir Kagan’s classic 1950s lounger – part of the Capricorn Collection -- for Oasiq remains a staple of the outdoor contract market with its retro modernist lines and all-the-rage cage construction.	New to the U.S. contract market, Covinsales brings Spanish outdoor fabrics to the new world with an asymmetrical twist on the au courant stripe.
European-inspired sectional lounging from Rausch gets grounded in today	Biofield takes the air mattress and twists it like a balloon into a modern Chesterfield sofa.
An IIDA/HD Design Award winner this market, the TUUCI exhibit space was awash in white.	Restoration Hardware cleanses the intense color palette with toned down blues and grays shown on the Carmel Collection.
Laurie Jenkins outdoor collection for Appian Textiles interprets today’s color stories and patterns in muted fashion by playing up gray throughout the line.	Neoteric Luxury cocoons in mixed pattern style with wraparound outdoor seating festooned in fashion-forward yellow.