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Gift for Life + NY Now AIDS Walk raises $42,000

2025 marks the 13th consecutive year that Gift for Life has fielded an AIDS Walk NY team. Participants this year included 8 in-person walkers in New York City as well as remote walkers, including Matt Katzenson of Fine Lines, the team’s top fundraiser.

‘A House for the Price of a Car’ Philippe Starck’s latest push to democratize design

A House for the Price of a Car measures and compares the amount of technological intelligence contained in a car and in a traditional house, demonstrating the obsolescence of traditional construction and advocating an industrialized approach that is more honest, more intelligent and more democratic.

The Green Chair Project celebrates 15 Years of changing lives

Since 2010, The Green Chair has furnished more than 10,000 individuals and families with essential household items, provided over 10,000 children with a bed of their own, and diverted more than 10,000 tons of furniture and housewares from local landfills.

FORT: LA announces winners of Healing the Heart of LA design competition

LOS ANGELES, CA (April 28, 2025) – Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) is pleased to…

It’s not about the polar bears: The burning need for design and infrastructure change in Los Angeles

After the 2025 wildfires devastated Los Angeles, it’s the city’s designers and architects who are stepping forward to reimagine what resilience looks like. This piece highlights the people and design strategies shaping a safer, more sustainable future for LA.

60th anniversary Pasadena Showcase House now open

The showcase house became an important creative outlet for designers who lost their homes in the Eaton fires earlier this year.

Gift For Life + NY NOW Partner for 2025 AIDS Walk New York

Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ longest-running, volunteer-led, national charitable organization, and NY NOW are once again fielding a team for AIDS Walk New York, the largest single-day AIDS fundraising event in the world, on Sunday, May 18, in New York’s Central Park.

FORT: LA Presents Healing the Heart of LA Design Competition + Exhibition 

The competition celebrates innovative and forward-thinking designs that honor the city’s rich architectural heritage while envisioning a more resilient and sustainable future.

Gift for Life announces changes to board of directors

Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ longest-running, volunteer-led national charitable organization, today announced changes to leadership of its Board of Directors with Emalee Hoffman of CMA Gifts and Amy Loewenberg of NY NOW at Emerald X transitioning to Chair and First Vice Chair, respectively, and Landon Metts of MarketTime elected to Second Vice Chair. Sarah Mount, GFL’s chair since 2024, steps into the role of Immediate Past Chair.

Two California design icons, Adam Hunter and House of Honey join forces to launch LA CAN DO’s Soft Landing Project

Just days after the fires began, Hunter and his team launched into action to create LA CAN DO (Los Angeles Creatives Aid in Natural Disasters Organization), a non-profit aimed at helping California wildfire survivors rebuild their lives and homes.