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From Home Furnishing Business
June 3,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry 
MillerKnoll, a global leader in design, is introducing a new Chicago flagship location in time for Fulton Market Design Days taking place from June 9-11. Spanning eight floors and nearly 70,000 square feet of showroom and retail space between the existing building at 1100 West Fulton Market and a new location at 1144 West Fulton Market, MillerKnoll Fulton Market promises to be a place where creativity is sparked, ideas are exchanged, and innovation takes center stage.
June 3,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Introducing Banner Stripe, the thirtieth textile designed by Paul Smith in collaboration with Maharam. The newest design in a dialogue spanning over two decades, Banner Stripe furthers the studios’ shared interest in reinterpretations of classic motifs through idiosyncratic applications of color, pattern, and scale. The upholstery offers a fresh perspective on Paul Smith’s striped textiles for Maharam, which have evolved from variations on tailored menswear to complex syncopations to the current iteration, whose directness emphasizes color relationships.
June 2,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Four influential industry leaders will be inducted into the American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame on Oct. 26 during the High Point Market. Joining the current 139 members of the Hall of Fame are Jeffrey S. Child, president, R.C. Willey Home Furnishings; William A. Hinks, founder and chairman, Furniture Mart USA; Stanley F. Pauley, former CEO and chairman, Carpenter Co.; and Norman Waxman, Norman Waxman Consulting.
June 2,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Minimalism meets mastery in the new Scandinavian Spaces NeoCon 2025 showroom. Located in Suite 366 at THE MART, the new space is a celebration of sophisticated Scandi design—where clean lines, tactile materials, and detailed elements create elevated spaces for the modern workplace.
June 2,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Mobilious unveils three denim-upholstered sofas—Nuvola, Fiorello, and Bluoro—that translate
fashion's most democratic fabric into living-room classics. Drawing on IndigoGuard™ Denim which elevates Turkey's Bossa Textile expertise and OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certification, these designs pay homage to three iconic silhouettes (the "Original Cloud" modular, Belgian track-arm slipcover, and a Scandinavian-style modular sofa by industry-renowned predecessors) while addressing the 2.16 million tons of annual denim waste through durable, plant-fiber construction.
May 27,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
IIDA and the IIDA Foundation are pleased to announce Rochelle Porter, CEO and Creative Director of Rochelle Porter Design, as the recipient of the 2025 Anna Hernandez/Luna Textiles Award. This annual award honors a woman business owner making valuable contributions to the design industry.