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January 22,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry, Las Vegas, Market 
Southern California-based Jamie Young Company has introduced their new collection for January 2020 with 75 items, each reflecting the brands continued focus of creating products that reflect global design and create unique home furnishings.
January 22,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Bespoke interior design firm Allen and James Designs has announced the recent opening of Fiddle Figs, the design firm’s in-house plant boutique under the supervision of Master Gardner, Pam Rogers. Located within Allen and James Designs’ retail operation in downtown High Point, NC, Fiddle Figs offers annual and perennial plants as well as custom container plantings for indoors or out. The boutique’s services also include landscape and gardening consultation and ongoing landscape management.
January 22,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Sherwin-Williams has announced that its Student Design Challenge (SDC) is back for 2020. The professional competition celebrates excellence in interior design by students in both residential and commercial categories. The SDC will open for entries from February 1 through March 15, 2020.
January 16,
2020 by Laurie Northington in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
International Market Centers (IMC) has announced its launch of IMC_di, a wholly-owned, stand-alone, B2B e-commerce division, which will offer vendors a single integrated digital platform enabling them to reach new buyers, capture leads and grow sales.
January 15,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
New York’s historic Plaza Hotel received a makeover recently with the help of modern interiors magazine Elle Décor and Universal Furniture. Elle Décor called on A-list designer Sasha Bikoff to temporarily transform the hotel’s legendary Rose Club into the Elle Décor Café, a project that runs through March 31, 2020.
January 15,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
International Market Centers (IMC) unveiled a rebrand of its major gift, décor and lifestyle market held semi-annually at AmericasMart Atlanta as the Atlanta Market. The new name, plus an updated brand positioning and new logo, will be on display for the winter edition, January 14-21, 2020.
January 15,
2020 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
On Christmas Day. 2019, Fox Business digital news featured a piece on high end holiday home decorating and the lengths affluent homeowners had been known to go when decorating for the season. The online editorial included images and client insight from two designers including author and interior designer, Shayla Copas. The article, entitled, “Celebrity Homes Decorated For The Holidays Can Cost More Than $ 100K,” highlighted the manner, preferences as well as cost high end clientele go to when dressing their homes for entertaining during the holidays.