Valspar color blindness documentary-ad wins Digiday Awards
Valspar earned two Digiday Video Awards earlier this week for the paint brand’s “Color for All” campaign, which helped colorblind individuals obtain groundbreaking eyewear that allowed them to see and...
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Houzz State of the Industry report released
This year’s Houzz State of the Industry report delved into home renovation and design businesses’ projections for revenue and profit growth, hiring and business challenges for this year, and a summary...
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Save the dates: Design on a Dime comes to Miami and New York
Design on a Dime, the benefit for Housing Works, is coming to Miami from February 5 to 7, and to New York from April 20 to 23. The events and accompanying sales will spotlight vignettes created by top...
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It Takes Two: The latest designer collaborations
The year may have scarcely begun, but collaborations between creatives and manufacturers are already in full swing. Discover what five of the top pairings have yielded, from fabrics and furniture to...
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John Robshaw debuts first in-house furniture line for Duralee
The John Robshaw for Duralee furniture collection will make its debut at High Point Market this April, signifying a growing push into furniture-making by a company traditionally known for its fabrics....
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Las Vegas Market reports record attendance, highest leasing
The Winter 2016 Las Vegas Market, held January 24 to 28, boasted its highest levels of leasing activity in five years, as well as a five percent jump in attendance by home decor buyers. The market also...
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A glimpse behind product-search tool Oriana’s Design Finder
A few years ago, designer Oriana Cyprus, founder of OJC Designs, had a problem. On the hunt for a small bookcase for one of her jobs, she exhausted her own resource base and Google (“a disaster” of...
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Sotheby’s sales benefit Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
Chinese art and European decorative art from the collection of Lucie and Walter Rosen, a notable couple in the first half of the 20th century who founded the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in...
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Call for entries: London’s Design Museum residence program
London’s Design Museum is now welcoming submissions for its Designers in Residence program, which offers young designers the “time and space to research and consider new ways of developing their work,”...
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Eco-friendly, innovative and newly launched products awarded
Top products at NY NOW were awarded earlier this week at the winter 2016 edition of the lifestyle and gift market. Also given out were the first-ever Best Exclusive Launch Award, honoring an...
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Student designers invited to IIDA NY job-search panel
A February 10 IIDA NY panel, moderated by two student representatives from the Pratt Institute, will feature industry pros discussing what qualities they seek in new hires. The panel will include...
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Music legend Lionel Richie launches home collection
Music industry titan Lionel Richie is expanding into the home sector with a self-named collection, which debuted earlier this week, replete with bone china, weighted crystal barware, decorative glass...
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AIANY names the six Best New Practices in New York
Six architecture practices have been named winners of this year’s New Practices New York 2016 competition, which recognizes emerging architecture and design firms founded since 2006 and located within...
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Lightovation posts bump in attendance
Lightovation, formerly known as the Dallas International Lighting Show, premiered at Dallas Market Center January 20 to 24 with an increase in attendance among U.S. buyers and a 35 percent increase in...
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WithIt announces nominees for annual WOW Awards
WithIt (Women in the Home and Furnishings Industry Today) has announced the lineup of honorees for its yearly WOW Awards. Connie Post of Affordable Design Solutions will receive the WithIt Legacy...
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Ronald McDonald House at Stanford launches home tour
Visitors will soon be welcome for tours of the the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. In a partnership with the San Francisco Design Center, 48 design firms, led by co-chairs ElizabethMartin of Martin...
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Oui Design links French and American designers, manufacturers
A new program pioneered by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy is linking designers and institutions across France and the U.S. In addition to fostering collaborations between designers,...
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Wayfair reveals six new proprietary brands
Six new brands are now available at Wayfair.com, representing the first of the home collections the furnishings site plans to launch this year. The collections include Andover Mills, Breakwater Bay,...
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Robert A.M. Stern to be honored with Innovator Award
Architect Robert A.M. Stern will receive this year’s Innovator Award at the yearly Connecticut Cottages & Gardens Innovation in Design Awards. The 10th annual award is presented to “an icon of the...
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Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles showhouse designers announced
The 2016 Southeastern Designer Showhouse & Gardens will debut in the Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead this spring. An annual showhouse of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine, the event invites...
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