Dallas Shared Showrooms Feature New Lines, New Events This Month

The Gourmet Market also debuts phase one of its three-part renovation that will yield nearly 30,000 square feet featuring more than 1,500 product lines.

Dallas Market Center’s shared showrooms will offer new lines and host special events during the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market, June 20-26. 

The Gourmet Market, Hemisphere Design Gallery, KidsWorld Studio, The Living Room, Outdoor Living and Spectrum will showcase a wide range of collections across more than 85,000 square feet of showroom space.

Gourmet Market, located on the 1st floor of the World Trade Center (WTC) is the only open-daily permanent shared showroom in the gourmet industry. The 25,000-square-foot shared showroom features unique gourmet gifts and specialty food and beverage lines, as well as housewares, cookware, tabletop, cookbooks, kitchen gadgets and wine accessories from more than 140 companies.

The more than 30 new companies showing in the Gourmet Market include: All Clad, Big Wood Boards, Caffe D’Amore, ChefPro Tortilla Maker, Cooke Tavern Soups, DeBrand Fine Chocolates, Dread Head Chef, Gage Inc., Krups, OIC Basketware, Raven’s Nest Specialties, S.A.L.T. Sisters, Soda Stream, The Sassy Apple, Too Good Gourmet and more.

Other galleries and studio events include:

• The Hemisphere Design Gallery a 10,000-square-foot design resource for decorators, designers and retailers offering high-end home decorating products and services. New lines for June include: All Resort Furniture, Continental Home, Cowhide Western Furniture, Harlequin Lighting, Linda Bourgault, Starling Design and The Art Menu. 
• KidsWorld Studio, the 8,000-square-foot shared showroom, features leading manufacturers of children’s products ranging from room décor and lighting to gifts, toys, apparel and accessories. The following new lines exhibiting in June: Diane Doss & Associates representing Little Yellow Chic, Sumersault Bedding and Tiny Love; Fairy Godmother, interchangeable hair accessories for girls; Heavenly Wear, baby attire market with scripture passages; Hip Together, designs for girls, boys and moms; Perry Mackin, chic and affordable diaper bags; Rosie Me Collections, boutique-style hair accessories; The Binky Bag, a stylish and convenient holder for storing and dispensing pacifiers; Wallflower Art Boutique, gallery wrapped giclee canvas prints; and Ypsi Designs, interactive paper-doll shirts with detachable, Velcro® doll clothes. 
• The Living Room, a 10,000-square-foot showcase featuring special collections for the home and include manufacturers such as Bella Toscana, Bougainvillea, Christian Aubry, Daniel Stuart Studio, Frantic Fern Arizona and Peninsula Home Collection.
• Outdoor Living is the 31,000-square-foot showroom in the International Trade Plaza, offering a wide range of merchandise for outdoor spaces from furniture, lighting and outdoor flooring, to fountains, pottery and garden accessories. June exhibitors include: Anywhere Fireplace, high style, affordable portable fireplaces; Ceramo, a unique collection of pottery; and Domani International, unique garden fountains, accents and statuary. 
• Spectrum, the 3,000-square-foot hall features a wide variety of lighting products. LED Inspirations joins other Spectrum exhibitors for the first time this June including SLV Lighting, Osram Sylvania, LIGHTS UP!, Avenue Lighting, Toshiba Lighting and Viz Glass.

This month, the Gourmet Market will also debut phase one of its three-phase renovation and expansion with updated décor to create a comfortable, welcoming space and enabling more interaction between exhibitors and buyers. Upon completion, the Gourmet Market will be nearly 30,000 square feet featuring more than 1,500 product lines of gourmet specialty foods, kitchen accessories, casual tabletop and gourmet gadgets.

The renovation will also include a new demo kitchen located just outside the Gourmet Market in the Hall of Nations, WTC 1st floor. During Market, more than a dozen famous chefs will host cooking demonstration. On June 23, renowned Australian Chef Curtis Stone will prepare samplings of his favorite dishes during a cooking and product demo at noon in the Demo Kitchen.