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Hooker Furnishings eliminates the position of President

MARTINSVILLE, VA – March 2024 – Hooker Furnishings has announced a new approach to merchandising…

Plan Architecture & Interiors challenged the status quo and took over the tristate area

A quick Zillow search of homes for sale in Bergen county, New Jersey will turn up many traditional single-family homes for sale. Plan Architecture has, in a short amount of time, managed to corner the luxury residential design market in the tristate area, working closely with real estate agents. Yet their signature style is anything but traditional. Today on Disruptive Design, DNN Editor in Chief Courtney Porter sits down with Plan Architecture’s principal architect and interior designer, Dan D’Agostino, to discuss the ways their daring style is taking over, challenging the status quo, one new build at a time.

Design Business Blueprint: product development 101

Greetings, interior designers and creative minds! Welcome to the March edition of Design Business Blueprint,…

Universal Furniture unveils extensive educational program for High Point

HIGH POINT, N.C., March 2024 – Universal Furniture, creator of stylish yet functional home furnishings…

The shrinking home presents big opportunities

What do smaller home sizes mean for design trends and a designer’s role in helping homeowners create the spaces of their dreams?

What the Qoldfusion Cold Pantry tells us about the future of the luxury kitchen

The future of home design is going to be highly personalized, experiential, and hospitality and commercially influenced. While the Qoldfusion walk-in cold pantry works wonderfully in contemporary commercial exhibition kitchens they have their sights set on the residential market. “Today’s consumers are aspiring to be chefs… they want culinary spaces that mimic the commercial [kitchen], but with style and flair” says Qoldfusion founder Dale Seiden. 

A prescription for healthier homes

We think of our homes as centers of family life, restful retreats from the world, places for socializing. But they, too, can foster health and wellness. We consider ways large and small to add features that improve physical and mental well-being.

Innovation & sustainability: Quartzforms® surfaces featured at KBIS in Vegas and KBB in Birmingham

Aesthetics, functionality, technology, and green awareness: the Scapin Group company talks about its range of kitchen and bathroom furnishings and counter-tops, from the assortment of quartz surfaces that satisfies the desire for bolder designs, to its revolutionary Ecotone™ collection.

Interior design industry insiders gather for an insightful conversation about the role of media in shaping client expectations at Spring 24 HPMKT

Entitled The Role of Media in Shaping Client Expectations, the panel will offer a thought-provoking discussion with a lineup of design industry experts including celebrity designer Kelli Ellis, Design News Now Editor in Chief Courtney Porter, and AD photographer Tori Sikkema. 

Defining your design firm’s core values with architect Christopher Kempel

Christopher Kempel started working in architecture in the early 90s which places him in a strange place between the older generation who predominantly hand-render and the younger generation who predominantly digitally-render. He sees the value of both. That is a common thread when you talk to Kempel: his ability to bring different groups together and unite them for a shared mission.