Today, dear Hadley Court readers, we’d like to introduce you to one of our favorite *to the trade only* resources that we will soon be seeing in person again at High Point Market: Thibaut. Established in 1886, Thibaut is the oldest continuously operating wallpaper firm in the United States. Thibaut is well known for their gorgeous use of color, as can be seen in our opening photo of one of their new wallpaper introductions from their *Trade Routes* collection called “Medallion Paisley.*
It reminds us of a kaleidoscope, and we love it.
A more recent introduction for Thibaut, however, is its line of furniture, Thibaut Fine Furniture, made in the USA in Hickory, North Carolina, the epicenter of the US furniture manufacturing industry.
What we love about Thibaut, and hope you will, too, is their attention to the design details that matter. They offer interior designers like Leslie Hendrix Wood hundreds of custom options, for a reasonable price, so they can create beautiful homes for you, tailored to your exacting standards, while bringing you both beauty and comfort.
For instance, look at all these caster and ferrule options for your sofas, kitchen benches, and ottomans and how pretty they are!
Thibaut Fine Furniture is designed by women, and it shows. 
Meet the Thibaut design team. Stacy Senior Allen is the daughter of the owners of Thibaut. As long time readers will know, we love that mother/daughter connection here on Hadley Court, where we appreciate Gracious Living. Timeless Design. Family Traditions.
One of our personal favorite pieces from the Thibaut Fine Furniture line is their Bel Aire settee. This is the perfect piece for a closet, a kitchen, a library - any place where you need a pretty, feminine place to perch! It’s an excellent example of the trend Leslie Hendrix Wood identified as #TheNewFeminine at last spring’s High Point Market in her role as an official #HPMKT StyleSpotter.
What we love even more is that the legs on the Bel Aire settee { and on any piece of Thibaut Fine Furniture } can be painted any Benjamin Moore color your designer specifies. Imagine the possibilities!
or finished to match your cabinetry or antiques…
or painted in a specialty finish…
or, our personal favorite, finished in gold or silver for a little added touch of glamour - something Texas women always seem to appreciate.
Another favorite piece of ours from the Thibaut Fine Furniture collection is their *Fairhaven* sofa. We love it for it’s flared bamboo leg, its beautiful back detail and its gently outward curving arm. It seems like the perfect height for resting your arm if you’re reading your favorite design magazine or book, doesn’t it?
However, we can’t decide if we like it better as a sofa with 3 separate seat cushions as it’s shown below or…
as a shorter settee aka as a loveseat, with a single seat cushion. What do you think?
However, what we know for sure is that we would love it in this room, with this Thibaut wallpaper, from Thibaut’s website here.
We would be very tempted to add one of Thibaut’s gorgeous custom nailhead options to the bottom of the *Fairhaven* sofa, however, like the *Bronze Renaissance*. Do you like it plain or would you add a little nailhead trim, too?
Whatever your preference, Thibaut makes it easy for your own interior designer or interior designers like Leslie Hendrix Wood in Midland, Texas to specify for you whatever your heart desires.
Thibaut even accepts *customers’ own nailheads!*
Wouldn’t adding beautiful antique nailheads from an existing piece of family furniture to a new sofa, settee or armchair be a nice way to honor the history of that piece of furniture in your family?
Notice, too, besides the nailheads on the picture above how well matched this pattern is around the arm. This often takes extra yardage to accomplish, and not every manufacturer employs the skilled upholsterers that can give you this level of workmanship. This is another reason to work with an experienced interior designer: they know what their vendor partners like Thibaut Fine Furniture are capable of doing.
One last design detail we appreciate about Thibaut is how easy they make it for your designer to specify specialty fabrics. Although Thibaut has its own sumptuous range of fabrics, they also accept any fabric - called COM in the trade - which stands for: *customer’s own material.*
This illustration from their catalog explains railroading and your designer will specify for you the right way to apply the fabric that you’ve chosen together. This is a very important decision [ impacted by repeats on a fabric and the width of the fabric] and is one of the many reasons to always hire and work with a professional interior designer.
Now that we’ve shown you many of the details of design that Thibaut Fine Furniture is known for …we will close with 3 of the gorgeous, color filled pictures from Thibaut’s site, showcasing their beautiful wallcovering and fabrics.
Do you have a favorite?
We can’t wait to show you, dear readers, here on the blog, what’s new from Thibaut Fine Furniture at High Point Market -> we hear there’s a major new furniture introduction coming! Don’t miss the postscript at the very bottom of this post!
Please stay tuned and, as always, thank you for reading Hadley Court.
We appreciate YOU.
~~~
Leslie Carothers
for
Leslie Hendrix Wood
Founder, Editor in Chief
Hadley Court
Interior Designer
Leslie Hendrix Wood Interiors
Midland, Texas
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PS:
At High Point Market, Leslie Hendrix Wood will be taking her #HPMKT StyleSpotter tour group to visit Thibaut’s showroom. If you’d like to come with her, please let us know in the comments. She will be speaking on the High Point Market StyleSpotter Trend Wrap - Up panel on Tuesday morning, October 20th at 9 am in the IHFC Green Wing’s 11th floor ballroom along with her fellow StyleSpotters.
Immediately after, Leslie will start her tour and will be visiting the Thibaut showroom at Historic Market Square.
Did you know that Pat Plaxico, one of Leslie Hendrix Wood’s fellow volunteers on the board of directors at the Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library was responsible for the adaptive reuse and design of Historic Market Square?