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ICFF 2025 highlights and programming

As the heart of the citywide design festival, NYCxDESIGN, ICFF’s theme, “Designing in Harmony,” reflects the diversity of industry makers and exhibitors from across the globe and additionally focuses on the importance of human-centered, multi-sensory, and multicultural design.

Creating cohesion in a multidisciplinary design studio

Studio Juma has built a practice on clarity, narrative depth and visual integrity—eschewing trends in favor of thoughtful, multidisciplinary design. In this wide-ranging interview, the studio reflects on its creative roots, collaborative process and vision for the future.

Biophilia: Beyond plants and fountains

Biophilia expert Bill Browning encouraged designers at the recent High Point Market symposium “Designing Wellbeing” to explore 15 principles that can improve the mental and physical health of their clients. We share his tips.

Post-market musings: Tariffs, traffic and trends

We’re back from High Point with lots of unpack — tariff conversations have taken an unexpected turn, many vendors unveiled impressive product introductions and specific trends carried a sense of cohesion throughout the market. 

Arteriors expands executive team with leadership hires in marketing and product

Arteriors, global leader in luxury lighting, furniture, wall décor and accessories, is pleased to announce…

Meet Hallmark Channel’s first design star

Olivia Westbrook is Hallmark Channel’s first design star, leading the heartfelt home renovation series Home Is Where The Heart Is on Hallmark+. In this intimate conversation, she shares the emotional heart of her design approach, how she maintained creative control on set, and the ways personal loss shaped her connection to the show’s mission of honoring legacy through space.

Designers talk tariffs: ‘It’s like the Wild West’

Interior designers say global tariffs are rushing decision-making, threatening to homogenize design and creating frustrating uncertainty

The ladies of Baker-McGuire

three leading designers—Laura Kirar, Susan Ferrier, and Paola Navone—offer intimate reflections on craft, mentorship, and meaning through their collections with Baker-McGuire. With distinct perspectives, they explore how thoughtful design becomes a legacy, a rebellion against disposability, and a deeply personal art form that honors both material and maker.

What is special in design?

One of the jobs designers are tasked with is finding or even creating that special item that a client wants to pass down to the next generation.  If a designer does not include “special” in their work, they will not have a career in design.

European lighting trend report

If Euroluce offered a forecast, it was that light—at least in the European context—is being asked to do more: to feel more, to say more, to matter more.