Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 5/12/2021
The High Point Market Authority’s award-winning Style Spotters program announces its spring 2021 Style Spotters LIVE! event and is accepting submissions for design influencers and tastemakers interested in being considered for the 2022 team.
Style Spotters LIVE! will be presented as a virtual event via Zoom on Wednesday, June 30, at 2pm ET. A long-standing High Point Market tradition, this event combines product insights, trend predictions, and an overview of launches and introductions from the most recent High Point Market. The 2021 Style Spotters will select product favorites across several home furnishings categories, highlighting selections seen during Spring Market, June 5-9.
Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 4/15/2021
“Great design tells a story,” says Gary Inman, founder of Gary Inman Home Couture. “It starts with the story of the people who will live in the home. In a city with such a rich history as Birmingham, though, it expands to convey a sense of place. It is rare today to find a designer – particularly a young designer – who has the deep appreciation of history required to express a sense of place, as well as the knowledge and skill to create spaces that are both fresh and timeless. Zach Hodgin is one of those rare designers. That’s why I’m so excited to announce that he will lead our Birmingham studio.”
With only a few days left, restaurants across the city are anxiously gearing up for the second coming of indoor dining in New York City. COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are trending downward after a post-holiday surge in the city, but the numbers still remain high, with thousands of new cases recorded in NYC every day.
Still, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he had to weigh the economic impact of businesses remaining shuttered for months against concerns about public health, and ultimately decided to resume indoor dining at 25 percent capacity just two months after it was suspended for the second time in December last year.
By None on 1/22/2021
Retail Profile: Kensington A discussion of furniture design trends that also examines the relationship between form, function and what consumers will be looking for to meet their home furnishings needs as we exit the pandemic.
For this installment of the Design & Designer series, Furniture World interviewed SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) professor Sheila Edwards and Fred Spector, SCAD’s Associate Chair of Furniture Design. Spector is also the founder of Frederic Spector Design Studio, a design firm specializing in commercial and residential furniture, lighting and tabletop products. Spector did his graduate work in industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design and studied furniture design at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He interacts with students in a number of ways. As well as teaching studio design classe
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How do you deal with a client taking credit for your work? How do you deal with a client taking credit for your work?
No matter what your profession, having someone claim your work as their own is an awful situation to find yourself in. For interior designers, the scenario can be even more complicated because of how closely they work with the homeowner to develop a project, which can lead the client to feel possessive over the end results. We asked seven designers
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