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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.

Populus, the country’s first carbon positive hotel, debuts nature-inspired interiors that evoke an Aspen Grove

Populus, the country’s first carbon positive hotel opening in Denver in summer of 2024, is pleased to unveil its nature-forward interior designs by Wildman Chalmers Design in partnership with Fowler + Fowler Architecture

If you do not like change, our industry bids you goodbye

Like red shoes with pressed blue jeans, one must possess verve in a market setting.  I love to feel the exhilaration of “standing in front of a wall selling art.”  I was hooked.  As Mario Andretti is famous for saying, “If everything seems under control, you are just not going fast enough.” I could not wait for the next market and new, shiny objects to sell.  Most of us are entrepreneurs.  Manufacturers and Reps alike run their own business: feast or famine.