Congress passes bill potentially creating design jobs
On December 18, Congress passed the Real Estate Investment and Jobs Act of 2015, a bill that has implications for interior designers. The bill includes a revision to the Foreign Investment in Real...
View ArticleASID signs lease on new HQ, pursues WELL Building Certification
The American Society of Interior Designers has signed a long-term lease on a new headquarters located at 1152 15th Street Northwest, Columbia Center, Washington, D.C. The space borders the East End and...
View ArticleModernism Show returns to Palm Springs with new exhibitors
The Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale will return in February for its 16th year. Running in tandem with Modernism Week, the show and sale will spotlight 80-plus dealers representing all design...
View ArticleDomotex comes to Germany the second week of January
Domotex, the industry show for carpets and floor coverings, will run January 16 to 19 in Hanover, Germany. It will spotlight textile and resilient floor coverings for the residential and contract...
View ArticleCall for entries: IIDA Interior Design and Will Ching competitions
The IIDA is now accepting entries for the 43rd Annual Interior Design Competition and the 24th Annual Will Ching Design Competition, two international contests honoring innovative design. The Interior...
View ArticleTheme named for London Festival of Architecture 2016
The theme for next year’s London Festival of Architecture 2016, “Community,” will be explored in exhibitions and events that examine the relationship between architecture and developing community. Some...
View ArticleFrench luxury artisans collective opens in New York next month
Par Excellence, a group of French designers and makers, is opening a showroom in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood on Monday, January 4. Designed to serve interior designers, the two-story space will...
View ArticleRegistration open for IIDA Student Mentoring Program
The IIDA Student Mentoring Program is now accepting student and mentor applications. The program pairs 800-plus interior design students and mentors, including design professionals, manufacturer...
View ArticleEllen’s Design Challenge announces lineup of 10 designers
The latest roster of designers has been announced for Ellen DeGeneres’s furniture design competition series Ellen’s Design Challenge. The designers will make their official debut in an hour-long “HGTV...
View ArticleIMM Cologne fair to present design gallery
Visionary interior and furniture concepts, created by international designers and firms, will take the stage at the IMM Cologne “Featured Editions” exhibit from January 18 to 24. An expert panel chose...
View ArticleGillham Studios Home exec discusses Hallmark home decor
Gillham Studios Home, Hallmark’s first foray into the home decor market, launched last month, offering one hundred years’ worth of archival designs and artwork in a direct-to-consumer website....
View ArticleHoloLens holds three-dimensional potential for designers
What if you could rouse a rendering to life, from the flatness of two dimensions to the realism of three? Mixed reality—a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image onto a user’s view of...
View Article2015’s top stories profiled movers, shakers and magazines
What were 2015’s top stories? Loyal EAL readers flocked to articles about the inner workings of the publishing world, money-saving tips and tricks from interior designer Jon Call, and a yearly roster...
View ArticleDecorative Antiques & Textiles Fair returns January 19-24
The Winter Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair, held in the Battersea neighborhood of London, will open January 19, before Maison & Objet and Déco Off unfold in Paris.The fair’s 140-plus...
View ArticleOver 40 galleries sign on for Asia Week New York 2016
A total of 46 international galleries and five auction houses—Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle New York, iGavel and Sotheby’s—will participate in Asia Week New York 2016. The 10-day event will celebrate...
View ArticlePacific Design Center’s WESTWEEK dates, theme announced
WESTWEEK 2016 will unfold March 23 and 24, bringing together interior designers and design enthusiasts at the Pacific Design Center. The event will feature showroom activities, open houses, receptions...
View ArticleNY NOW Market names featured products and companies
Home and gift market NY NOW returns next month, and the fair’s organizers have named the exhibitors and products that will be spotlighted in two displays: “SustainAbility: Design for a Better World”...
View ArticleCall for entries: Green Building Council competition
For the first time, Los Angeles is hosting the Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, the globe’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building, and in advance of the event, the U.S....
View ArticleCall for entries: AIANY New Practices New York 2016
The deadline for the biennial New Practices New York, a juried portfolio competition that honors and promotes new and innovative architecture and design firms, has been extended to January 15. William...
View ArticleMadcap Cottage and Robert Allen team up on textiles
Robert Allen and interior design firm Madcap Cottage debuted their A Room With a View textile collection at last month’s ITMA Showtime, the High Point, North Carolina, textile fair. The line will...
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