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Why are so many designers flocking to Palm Beach?
It’s no secret that the pandemic caused many homeowners to pack up and relocate to more desirable locales. Now, a handful of designers are following suit, opening new studios and storefronts in sunny...
View ArticleA client asks: My designer seems checked out. How do I move on?
Dear Sean, Your most recent column about a designer feeling resentment after under-charging caught my eye. In full disclosure, I am a client, not a designer. I have enjoyed a wonderful, 10-plus-year...
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All your questions about knockoffs, answered
It’s not a controversial statement to say that there are knockoffs everywhere in the design industry. Start trying to point them out, and things get more complicated. Whether it’s fear of a libel...
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PPP loan forgiveness requirements are rolled back, the foam shortage is here...
This week in design, Gen Z is using TikTok to turn their rug-making hobbies into full-fledged businesses, while a new hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, brings unsavory comparisons for the city’s...
View ArticleTwo legacy trade brands unite for a new look
Once ChrisandKelli Hansenpurchased lighting company Palmer Hargrave from the imperiled Dessin Fournir in 2019, the husband-and-wife duo thought they were finished buying companies. The pair had worked...
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Will artificial intelligence ever out-design designers?
There’s a concept in artificial intelligence called “the singularity.” It refers to the idea that AI will one day be able to reproduce and improve upon itself at increasingly rapid speeds, resulting in...
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How to help clients understand why they want what they want
“Clients don't know what they want.” It’s a cliche of the profession that’s half true. Clients generally know what they want, but rarely do they know why. Solving that particular puzzle is key to these...
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Why Fermob is having a light bulb moment
When it comes to contemporary lighting, Fermob is full of bright ideas—quite literally, in the case of its latest creation. Practical yet chic, Aplô playfully reinvents the classic icon of ingenuity...
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How this Brazilian furniture artist is using neuroscience to design better
For anyone who finds themselves lingering in the past, it might bring some comfort to know that occasionally, bits of the past end up stuck in the present. For Brazilian furniture designer and artist...
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This Nebraska designer’s first project was a showhouse
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, Omaha, Nebraska–based Erica Bryant...
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West Elm and Minted team up for an artist-designed upholstered furniture line
For its latest collaboration, West Elm turned not to a breezy-chic influencer with tons of followers or a severe Scandinavian designer in square glasses. Instead, the company is working with nearly two...
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Designers dish on new-client red flags
Just as there is that warm, fuzzy feeling when you meet a client that you instantly click with, every designer has a set of traits and behaviors that hint a prospective client is not a good fit. We...
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Stay in touch: 7 designers share how they keep clients in the loop
Keeping a client engaged in and excited about the design process is one of the more underrated keys to a project’s success. Here’s how seven designers bring their clients along for the ride.Lynn...
View ArticleA British retailer is turning their unused real estate into homes—could it...
It’s been a fraught time for retail, to say the absolute least. As retailers in every sector of the business grapple with post-pandemic (or second wave) projections—and an era of ever fewer...
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How photorealistic renderings have transformed this Nevada designer’s business
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, Las Vegas–based Linda Allen tells us...
View ArticleThe California Collective on stepping outside the showroom model
It was early in the pandemic when textile designers BrookPerdigon, Paige Cleveland ofRuleofThree and Alexis Hartman of Lake August began meeting for coffee in Cleveland’s garden, leaning on each other...
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Beni Rugs goes brick-and-mortar, Rose Tarlow has a new flagship, and more
According to this month’s look at the home market, retail has made its return, with to-the-trade showrooms following close behind. In our July roundup, Business of Home has gathered all the expansions...
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7 squiggly decor pieces to energize your space
Joyous, undulating patterns and shapes are having a design moment, and it’s easy to see why. Having first made a splash in the 1980s (courtesy of the Memphis Milano movement), squiggly lines are back,...
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Herman Miller rebrands after Knoll acquisition, the NY Luxury Design Fair is...
The realm of early-aughts pop culture is the latest sourcing ground for nostalgic revivals, and the home industry is getting in on the wave with a redux of MTV Cribs—the classic reality show that peeks...
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Future of Home conference to unite the best of the industry
It’s been the best of times and the worst of times in the design industry, as demand for home goods and services continues to surge—and outpace the capacity of a manufacturing sector plagued by...
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