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From Home Furnishing Business
November 4,
2024 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry 
Increased retail membership along with improved internal messaging and a new external communications program are key focus areas for the International Casual Furnishings Association (ICFA) following a strategic planning session conducted last month.
October 29,
2024 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Abner Henry, an Ohio-based luxury furniture maker, is launching two major collections this fall that speak directly to the growing demand for customizable, American-made furniture in the luxury market.
October 29,
2024 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
ANDMORE℠’s Fall Cash & Carry, running November 11 – 13, 2024, at AmericasMart Atlanta, provides essential year-end sourcing for immediate-delivery products, spanning 400+ home and gift temporary exhibits and permanent showrooms.
October 29,
2024 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
The Design is Human Awards return to the Atlanta Design Festival, spotlighting the most innovative and transformative work across architecture, digital design, and film.
October 29,
2024 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
The New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) has successfully reinvented its annual trade show, now titled a Design Expo. This year’s event on Oct 8 at Bell Works featured a DJ, a panel with LuAnn Nigara of A Well-Designed Business® and Designer and HGTV host Noel Gatts on how to attract the luxury client, a raffle and a CEU on global design trends by Sub-Zero, Wolf and Cove. The lively, interactive event drew crowds of designers and dozens of exhibitors encompassing the breadth of the design trade.
October 29,
2024 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
A new HomeGoods survey uncovered that 74% of holiday decorators say that they associate holiday decorating with joy, but more than half feel decorating before Thanksgiving comes with some level of judgment. In fact, 60% of holiday decorators have received some type of remark about the timing of their holiday décor. HomeGoods believes in the joy that decorating early for the holidays brings, so they created Deck the Everything Day, an annual holiday on Nov. 1, to celebrate early decorators and give them a reason to embrace their love of the season.
October 29,
2024 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
The exhibition 100 IKEA objects we would have liked to have had in VINÇON opened this week at Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHUB) and will be running until 23 February 2025. Curated by the architect and designer Juli Capella, the exhibition pays tribute to the emblematic Barcelona shop VINÇON and is based on an original idea by Fernando Amat, who has selected 100 IKEA products that he would have liked to incorporate into his shop.