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Explore Hooker Furnishings’ 100-year legacy of design leadership and philanthropy, as the brand celebrates its centennial with a year-long initiative, including the “100 Acts of Kindness” and partnerships with interior designers. Learn more about their ongoing commitment to giving back and their collaboration with Star Furniture to support breast cancer awareness.
Gift for Life today announced its list of top 2024 donors, recognizing 43 individuals and companies that have contributed between $500 and $10,000+ during this calendar year. The announcement is part of Gift for Life’s continued commitment to acknowledge its generous supporters through a tiered recognition program, launched in 2023.
Trauma-informed design can create empowering, comforting spaces. And with experts estimating that 90% of the population has experienced trauma, the principles could be widely adopted.
Our ongoing series, Champions of Design Entrepreneurship, offers a rare, intimate look into the minds…
The Charleston, South Carolina-based designer, known for his “twisted traditional” style, is rebranding but staying focused on the mix of interior design, retail and philanthropy that keeps him busy — just the way he likes.
Featuring first-person accounts from renowned designers, architects, artisans, and industry veterans, each story is a reflection of how they interpret what it means to be both a ‘champion’ and an ‘entrepreneur’ in our field. This sixth installation features Philadelphia-based architecture and interior design firm, Kaminski and Pew who are masters of adaptive reuse.
Foundation supports people battling breast cancer in the design & furnishings industry
Featuring first-person accounts from renowned designers, architects, artisans, and industry veterans, each story is a reflection of how they interpret what it means to be both a ‘champion’ and an ‘entrepreneur’ in our field. This fifth installation features interior designer and business coach John McClain
Margie Lavender, partner at Kligerman Architecture & Design, has a passion for buildings but also for gardening. Her approach to gardening has evolved as she came to understand its role in a major ecological conservation movement, a Garden Revolution, that asks us to look at the nature around us in urban and suburban areas through a new lens, as a viable part of an ecosystem.
Ten years after launching the nonprofit Savvy Giving by Design, designer Susan Winstersteen and her team are rolling out the Savvy Giving Design Coalition, a new national initiative for interior designers, architects and brands.