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The Magnolia Network has a new star, Tom Dixon is a hologram, and more
Welcome back from a long holiday weekend that, for many in the U.S., saw startlingly low temperatures—welcome or not, an excuse to sit inside. (Perhaps an apt moment to take a lesson from the cohort of...
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The Textile Eye aims to beat Instagram at the fabric inspo game
These days, interior designers work in metal, marble, resin, foam and neon gas, but fabric remains the underpinning of the industry. Funny, then, that while Home Textiles Today covers the business...
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Do you charge for initial consultations?
How do you shepherd a client from initial contact to signed contract? We asked seven designers about the journey to the dotted line—including the age-old debate of whether to charge for the first...
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Why designers are turning to The Container Store to create custom closets for...
Since the rollout of its trade program in early 2019, The Container Store has been on a mission to be a valuable resource for interior designers. The company’s custom closet offerings have been a...
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The Zoom season: What happens when product design goes virtual?
The season’s standout textiles, ceramics and soft goods have a creative secret in common: They were all designed screen-to-screen rather than side-by-side.While the home industry posted some of its...
View ArticleIs Williams-Sonoma the best-positioned retailer in home?
RH is making lots of headlines, Bed Bath & Beyond seems to be turning around its business, and Ashley and Ikea are growing faster than most other industry players. But if you had to point to the...
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How do you stay on top of Instagram DMs?
For many design firms, Instagram has become as important as having a website, but it can also mean fielding dozens (or more!) of direct messages every week. We asked five designers—Michelle Gage,...
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Lugg wants to be the Instacart of furniture delivery
No one likes moving furniture. Whether you’re switching houses or just bringing in a new piece of upholstery, it’s big, it’s bulky, and even when you find movers that will do a good job, the logistics...
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Why being best friends is this Connecticut design team’s secret weapon
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, Meghan De Maria and Courtney Yanni of...
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Asad Syrkett wants Elle Decor to start conversations
Like many a design journalist, Elle Decor editor in chief Asad Syrkett studied architecture in college before realizing he was more interested in writing about finished buildings than grinding out...
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How one textile designer is turning trash into treasure
A “waste not, want not” philosophy has given a Dutch textile designer an innovative approach to design—and led to a collaboration with Adidas that explores reuse in surprising ways.The biggest...
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Serena & Lily opens in San Diego, a new Verellen outpost, and more
Another month into 2021, and new industry showrooms continue to crop up. In our February roundup, Business of Home has gathered all the expansions and openings to have on your radar.A bedroom vignette...
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Sister Parish partnered with Parsons to advance textile sustainability
The textile industry is rife with waste—from scraps of discarded fabric to the sizable carbon footprint of factory production and product shipments. Heritage textile house Sister Parish is not immune...
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Kips Bay Palm Beach announces designers, Christie’s embraces crypto, and more
This week, the internet is abuzz with The Englander, a 141-year-old Victorian mansion that made its way through the streets of San Francisco on the back of a semitruck. As the world continues to focus...
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Designers are flocking to Clubhouse. Why?
Last weekend I eavesdropped on an intimate conversation between a small group of interior designers. Or at least, it felt that way. I was spending my Sunday afternoon bouncing around the buzzy...
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Contestants share why they joined ‘HGTV Design Star’ reboot
Everything old is new again. It’s an adage as easily applied to design as to TV shows, so it should come as no surprise that HGTV is bringing back its wildly popular Design Star competition, the most...
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Money for nothing: A passive income primer
Interested in building passive income into your business? Here’s a guide to earning this way—and a reality check to help you decide which, if any, of these paths is right for you. (Hint: It’s not as...
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Whiteout: 8 striking products take color out of the equation
While bold hues will always make a statement, a well-placed piece in a pristine alabaster finish can be just as striking and surprising. Here, we’ve rounded up eight white objects and accents for every...
View ArticleMacy’s revenue shows an uptick, thanks to home sector sales
Of all the stores in all the country, Macy’s is the one that remains front and center in the great battle of retailing. While the ultimate demise of other major brands—no names, please—are pretty much...
View ArticleWhy Airbnb’s stock price matters for designers
In January of 2020, if you had told Airbnb executives that in a few months they’d be laying off almost 25 percent of their workforce, they would never have believed you. Likewise, if you had told them...
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