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Two interior designers from New Delhi, Divya Jain and Smita Prakash (right), have visited the High Point Market in North Carolina five times. They are trying to carve out a niche as the Indian designers who can deliver American-designed furniture.
50 States
A small North Carolina city stakes its claim as the global capital of furniture buying
Since the turn of the 20th century, cities like Lexington, North Carolina were the furniture-making capitals of America. The area has lost 60 percent of of its manufacturing jobs, largely to Asian factories, since the 1990’s.
North Carolina’s fight to keep its foothold on furniture