Las Vegas Market Names 6 West Coast Tastemakers for Instagram Takeover

June 22, 2022  by Laurie Northington in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry   

Trend identification continues to drive Las Vegas Market programming,” said Dorothy Belshaw, International Market Centers (IMC) executive vice president, chief customer and marketing officer. “Through Market Pros, we are curating the market experience through the eyes of our customers. Combined with our proprietary FIRST LOOK and Market Snapshot, attendees get the full picture of the must-have products from market that will make a difference in their businesses.” 

Las Vegas Market has tapped six tastemakers -- designers and retailers -- to offer market tips and highlight favorite product finds as part of the Market Pros Instagram Takeover. Each will be the voice of @LasVegasMarket for the day with this schedule:

• Sunday, July 24: Christopher Todd is a retailer and designer in Las Vegas. He founded Christopher Todd Design in 2010 and later expanded in 2016 with a complementary home décor and fine gift store. An Arkansas native, he opened his first floral business in 1999 and relocated to Las Vegas to work with MGM Resorts as a special events design artist in 2005. @ctdesignlv
• Monday, July 25: Monica Wilcox is an award-winning, Dallas-based designer and TV personality with a diverse portfolio including hospitality, residential and commercial projects. Since launching in 1998, her firm M Wilcox Design has been known for delivering unique and functional designs that are modern, yet classic. Her work has been featured on the pages of Dallas Style & Design numerous times and in Home Magazine and Home Upgrades Magazine. @mwilcoxdesign
• Tuesday, July 26: Eva Bradley and Alicia Cheung Lichtenstein are co-owners of studioHEIMAT in San Francisco. They founded the firm after working together for tastemaker and influential designer, Ken Fulk. Each with a decade of experience in the industry, Bradley and Lichtenstein are guided by the goal of evoking soulful spaces through clean lines, elevating the status quo and adding an edginess to each project. Hailing from Switzerland, Bradley came to America to pursue higher education, studying English in San Diego and interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. A native to the Bay Area, Lichtenstein studied Textiles & Clothing and Economics at the University of California, Davis, before studying Interior Design at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, San Francisco. @studio.heimat
• Wednesday, July 27: Linda Allen of Linda Allen Designs in Las Vegas is an interior lighting and designer known for thoughtfully detailed custom interiors with a modern sense of nostalgia. Inspired by her passion for creating “Living Rooms, Anywhere,” she created the Live. Anywhere. Collection of luxury outdoor wireless table and floor lamps. Notable in her lighting experience was designing story-themed light fixtures for Tokyo Disney Seas and Disneyland’s California Adventure for Walt Disney Imagineering. In recognition of her work, she was named to the Library of Congress as an African American “Artmaker.” Allen’s work has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Elle Decor, Essence, Interiors, Luxe Interiors + Design, LA Times, Robb Report and Traditional Home magazines. @lindaallendesigns 
• Thursday, July 28: Sarah Kennedy is Principal and Interior Design Director for CLB Architects in Jackson, Wyo. Her designs are guided by her clients, nature, light and materials, whether in her native Australia, her adopted home of Jackson Hole, or elsewhere. She approaches her residential, hospitality and retail design projects with the idea of composing interiors to be conversant with the built and natural surroundings. She leads CLB’s interior design effort with a team of ten designers who create thoughtful, well-considered spaces from early conceptualization, through construction, documentation and furnishings. @clbarchitects

In an extension of the Market Pros program, four participants – Eva Bradley, Alicia Cheung Lichtenstein, Sarah Kennedy and Monica Wilcox – also will serve as panelists in IMC’s proprietary the Ahead of the Curve program. This discussion of emerging trends and how to incorporate them will be illustrated by each Market Pros’ favorite market finds in a conversation with Kathryn Given, style director for Luxe Interiors + Design. The session runs on Tuesday, July 26 at 11:00am. 

Market Pro Linda Allen also participates in two additional Las Vegas Market programs. She leads a light-focused tour, “Lighting the Way with Linda Allen - Lighting Highlights Tour” of selected showrooms to offer a new perspective on how best to use different styles of lights in residential and commercial projects on Monday, July 25 at noon. Allen also is panelist in “From Palm Springs to Las Vegas: A Look at Inspired West Coast Design” with Desert Oasis show house designers Michael Berman of Michael Berman Limited in Los Angeles, Jen Samson of Jen Samson Design in Laguna Beach, CA and Huma Sulaiman of Huma Sulaiman Design in Laguna Beach, CA. The conversation will be led by Furniture, Lighting & Décor Editor-in-Chief Diane Falvey on Sunday, July 24 at noon. 

Full Summer 2022 Las Vegas Market programming will be announced soon.