High Point Market to feature eighth Bonsai with Brownlee Currey session

Brownlee Currey’s bonsai collection once again became part of the High Point Market conversation, turning Currey & Company’s showroom into more than a display of furniture and lighting. The eighth Bonsai with Brownlee Currey session gave buyers, designers, and collectors a close look at how miniature trees can work as living design objects inside a luxury showroom.

The session was held at Currey & Company’s space in IHFC Main, Suite M-110 on Main Street, from 4 to 5 p.m. Currey & Company has framed it as one of its favorite in-person, hands-on events and a Market tradition, and that description fit the scene: bonsai sat throughout the showroom as part of the brand’s presentation, not as a side note. Business of Home described the program as a lesson in the ancient art of bonsai with Brownlee Currey, while the company said attendees would learn in the showroom itself from a collection he has created and cared for since youth.

That personal history matters. Brownlee Currey has been tending bonsai since he was 12 years old, and Home Accents Today reported that his personal collection includes more than 100 miniature trees. Those trees belong to him, not just to the brand image around the market floor, which gives the session a different texture from a standard showroom activation. It reads as a family tradition built from a genuine long-term practice, one that has followed Currey from childhood into the business he now runs.

Currey & Company is a 37-year-old family-owned home furnishings manufacturer founded by Robert and Suzy Currey and now led by Brownlee Currey. Its High Point showroom totals 16,000 square feet, giving the company room to stage bonsai as part of a broader lifestyle environment. In a market where presentation shapes buying decisions, that kind of display tells decorators and retailers something immediate about scale, restraint, and the role a living specimen can play in a finished room.

The event also landed inside the larger machinery of High Point Market, which the High Point Market Authority describes as the largest home furniture industry trade show in the world. Spring Market ran April 25 through 29, 2026, and the trade-only event encompasses 11.5 million square feet of showroom space, more than 2,000 exhibitors, and more than 75,000 visitors every six months. The authority says Market’s seasonal events contribute about $202 million in local tax revenue annually.

Seen in that context, Bonsai with Brownlee Currey was never just about tiny trees. It was a reminder that bonsai still has a place where design business happens, in a showroom built to influence taste, invite conversation, and show how a collector’s eye can shape the way a room feels.