Treasures from the forest floor

Home News Now takes readers inside Phillips Collection’s facilities that showcase a broad mix of its furniture line

HIGH POINT – Recently Home News Now visited some of Phillip’s Collection’s warehouse and distribution facilities in High Point. Here, the company collects a wide assortment of table tops, bases and benches from forests around the world that it later turns into finished product. All of these items are one-of-a-kind as they are taken from huge tree trunks, bases and roots that have taken many years to grow in their native environments.

Below is a look inside Phillips Collection’s facilities where it stores, finishes and performs some light assembly to get the product ready to ship to its customers. Often the customers are buying off photos as these items, while similar in form, have their own distinct shapes and grain patterns from what they see in person. But judging by the company’s double-digit sales growth in the past couple of years, these pieces are resonating in the market among consumers that have an appreciation for nature and who want to bring that slice of the forest into their homes.

A roomful of tables featuring tops made with solid chamcha wood are at the company’s warehouse that adjoins its headquarters operation in the former Rose Furniture building on Finch Avenue in High Point. Shown seated on the tables are two of the company’s Crazy Wire sculptures of a man and woman.
Company Vice President Jason Phillips, seen with the Crazy Wire sculptures in the background, looks over the surface of a recently finished dining table. Typically these tables come into the shop in a basic natural top coat and are refinished in 5-10 sheen finish that highlights grain patterns without being too glossy and capturing reflections that hide the natural wood look.
These table bases are made from the roots of lychee trees.
A table top made from chamcha wood is ready to have a base attached.
These cross cut sections of a tree can be used as occasional tables
Jason Phillips and Juan Hernandez look over the seat of a chair made from a solid piece of wood.
Andreas McCrea positions a solid wood base to the bottom of a solid slab of wood that serves as the dining table top.

Jason Phillips shows off a piece of decor that features a spinning teak root.
These are solid slabs of wood that will be used for table tops seen inside one of the company’s High Point warehouses.
This solid slab of chamcha wood can be used as a console.
More solid slabs of wood shown here that can be used as tables.
These root formations can be used as table bases.
This root formation is supported by sculptures of people representing Atlas-like figures

A slab of wood featuring butterfly joints for aesthetic appeal and support.
More solid wood slabs of trees cut from the base near the root stump showcase what the tree form looks like just below the trunk.
These pieces of solid wood have been assembled for use as a console.
These are benches made from individual slabs of solid wood.
These pieces of Amethyst come in all shapes and sizes courtesy of mother nature.

Thomas Russell

Home News Now Editor-in-Chief Thomas Russell has covered the furniture industry for 25 years at various daily and weekly consumer and trade publications. He can be reached at tom@homenewsnow.com and at 336-508-4616.

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