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Carson Kressley and Thom Filicia will be the emcees for our Designer of the Year Awards Gala. The Gala will conclude our annual conference, this year in Palm Springs, California. We can’t wait to recognize and reveal the winners!
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Award-winning designer, speaker, author, and philanthropist Shayla Copas is one the South’s most acclaimed luxury designers and tastemakers. She is pleased to announce the launch of her new tabletop and entertaining book, Four Seasons Of Entertaining, in April 2019. In each chapter, Copas shares ideas and sources for tabletop settings, mouth-watering recipes from contributing chefs, floral arrangements and personal touches that are sure to make a lasting memory each holiday. Read the full press release here.
By Fred Berns
 Branding has become big business among interior design professionals as they strive to get heard above the noise and stand out in an increasingly crowded marketplace. There are nearly as many interior design "brands" out there as there are interior designers, but the most effective of these — the ones that create the most buzz and attract the most business — have one word in common: "Only." Nothing differentiates your design firm more dramatically and spells out your specialness more effectively than that word.
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Fast Company
Every April, thousands descend upon Milan for the design industry’s most important event of the year. Centered around Salone del Mobile – the Milan Furniture Fair – it’s a week filled with design events, installations, and announcements of new collections that will shape the industry for the next year, and it’s been that way for most of its nearly 60-year existence. But lately, it hasn’t just been design companies turning up for Milan Design Week: Tech companies, from Apple to Google, have been coming too.
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Business of Home
The term "experience center" comes from the world of consumer retail strategy, and like most neologisms, an exact definition is hard to come by. Broadly speaking, it's a retail environment where customers are encouraged to have an interaction with the product—which could mean anything from a racetrack-adjacent Porsche showroom to an Aveda shop where customers can get personalized skin-care advice.
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Livingit
Terracotta-hued teapots made from once-toxic waste, natural table lamps grown from fungi and solar-powered windows capable of charging electronics – the era of eco-friendly interior design innovation has arrived, and creatives from around the world are making beautiful and sustainable products pushing the edge of sustainability.
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Bisnow
Office design has been changing in recent years, and many of those changes — from open office to a slew of amenities — are here to stay. But more change is on the horizon, including the continued move away from dedicated office development to more mixed-use applications, which is already being seen in campus development projects planned in Silicon Valley.
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Fast Company
Recently, a quiet revolution has begun to change the way people think about their spaces, both at home and at work. It centers on the idea that the great indoors should mimic the great outdoors to improve people's lives–an insight that is backed up with increasing amounts of research. Biophilic design dates back to the early 1980s, when the biologist Edward O. Wilson outlined his philosophy of biophilia, hypothesizing that humans have an innate, biological affinity for the natural world.
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Business of Home
Walking into a room and taking in the design seems an easy enough task—you like what you see or you don’t. But our physical response to aesthetics is often much more complicated, a phenomenon that visitors at Salone del Mobile are invited to see for themselves at a new installation from Google and Johns Hopkins University’s Arts + Mind Lab.
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