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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...
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Why this Alabama designer flies her furniture maker in for installations
Welcome back as we kick off the second installment of the 50 States Project, a yearlong series of candid conversations with interior designers across the country about how they’ve built their...
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Kvadrat goes solo in America
Kvadrat is going solo. Ending an 18-year distribution partnership with Maharam, the Danish fabric giant is spinning up its own operations across the United States in 2021. Its plans suggest that the...
View ArticleNo silos, no specialties. Commune is no ordinary award-winning design studio
Let this sink in: Even after nearly two decades at the helm of one of the country’s most celebrated interior design firms—with high-profile projects like the Ace Hotel and homes that have graced...
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Marie Kondo teams up with The Container Store for a sustainable line
The Container Store is kicking off 2021 by launching a co-branded collection with tidying expert and organizational phenomenon Marie Kondo. Dubbed The Container Store x KonMari (the name of Kondo’s...
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B&B Italia’s new artistic director, fresh hires at Currey & Company, and more
As the world welcomes a long-awaited new year, these industry players are making moves. Read on for Business of Home’s January roundup of new hires in design, manufacturing, media and more.TO THE...
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Outer raises $10.5 million, plots backyard showroom empire
For most entrepreneurs, 2020 was a brutal year to get a new business off the ground. For Outer—a direct-to-consumer maker of outdoor sofas—it was a gold rush. Yes, there was a one-week cliff-dive in...
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Houzz predicts a decline in open kitchens, Christian Siriano is coming for...
It’s been a strange week of news (to put it mildly), yet the industry pushes on. Stay in the know with our weekly roundup of headlines, launches and events, recommended reading, and more.BUSINESS...
View ArticleCowtan & Tout moves headquarters to Brooklyn’s Industry City
The allure of Brooklyn, with lower rents and bigger floor plans than neighboring Manhattan, is one that many a New Yorker has felt. It’s what appealed to textile brand Cowtan & Tout, which, come...
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What does a boom in branded content mean for design media?
For decades, you could rely on the world of design media to resemble a game of musical chairs. Every few years there was a shuffle, a few editors and publishers would swap mastheads, and then everyone...
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6 timeless ways to use gray
While certain colors come in and out of fashion (looking at you, millennial pink), gray will always be in vogue. Here, we’ve rounded up eight fresh ways to use this wonderfully versatile hue.Frette’s...
View ArticleDallas show sets the tone for markets in 2021
If the first home furnishings trade show of the year is any indication, 2021 could be a surprisingly good year for the industry.Retailers went to last week’s Dallas Total Home & Gift Market coming...
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An Instagram campaign puts designers’ humble beginnings in the spotlight
As the saying goes, you have to learn to walk before you can run—and interior design is no exception. Though few designers’ projects are magazine-worthy from day one, there is little imagery online...
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What was the most important business lesson you learned in 2020?
The last year has been a challenge, to put it in the mildest of terms. With a pandemic, civil unrest and economic uncertainty, 2020 made it difficult to take care of yourself and your family, let alone...
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D2C sofa brand Sabai launches first-of-its-kind buyback program
Sabai, the two-year-old direct-to-consumer sofa brand, is attempting something that not even Ikea has tried in the United States—launching a national buyback program. Through its new initiative called...
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How this Alaska designer landed 100 percent of her inquiries
The 50 States Project is a yearlong series of candid conversations with interior designers across the country about how they’ve built their businesses. This week, designer Beth McDonough, owner of...
View ArticleWhat’s the most efficient way to get new hires up to speed?
Dear Sean,My team is overloaded with work, and we’ve posted several job listings to grow our team. The thing is, I’m going to need these new hires to really hit the ground running when they get here....
View ArticleJohn Robshaw on standing out in a crowded field
John Robshaw’s career began, as with so many textile designers, with some light international smuggling. It was the late 1990s, and he was an art student at Pratt in Brooklyn. One of his professors, a...
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$24 million for AI-powered sleep, the White House doesn’t have a decorator...
As the industry takes steps into this new year, consumers continue to acclimate to what The Wall Street Journal is calling a new “phygital reality” model (a hybrid where people seamlessly live, work,...
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What do the latest gadgets from CES say about the future of home technology?
For gadget lovers, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is like the Super Bowl, the Oscars and opening night of the Kips Bay Decorator Show House all rolled into one. This year, like...
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