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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.

Breaking free from the Age of Average

“Only creativity will save creativity” says Fashion Snoops as it rebrands to Future Snoops

Troubleshooting design budget woes with Mark Schubert

What to do with clients who have champagne taste on beer budgets? How do you handle the discussion of scope creep? What happens when your client tries to shop a retail piece or monopolize your time in search of the perfect faucet? 

This week on Disruptive Design, Mark Schubert of Chicago-based Phillip Harrison Interiors offers designers practical insights on navigating the financial aspects that can make or break client relationships and project outcomes.

The digital gallery we didn’t know we needed

Designer Gabriela Gargano debuts ARCA Galerie, a rare online platform for collectible one-offs, anonymous artworks, and vintage finds. In this interview, she discusses her sourcing philosophy, balancing instinct with strategy, and why digital retail needs more curation and less mass production.

Who seeks designers’ help?

Exclusive Consumer Insights Now research looks at which generations are most likely to want the help of designers. The findings are intriguing.

Heirloom items your children will fight over

Not all heirlooms are antiques, and not all design is about aesthetics alone. Furniture designer Austin Allen James’ latest installation of Design Moonshine explores the sentimental beauty of everyday objects and encourages designers to embrace emotional history in the spaces they create.

Soho Home Studio opens in Nashville

Soho House opens its doors to a new Soho Home Studio in Nashville, marking the fifth Soho Home location in the US. Located inside Soho House Nashville, the space accommodates the growing demand for Soho Home design in the up-and-coming Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood, a creative hub in the city with a growing number of art galleries, studios and local design shops converted from former industrial warehouses. 

Loud luxury: How whimsy replaced restraint

A new wave of playful, hyper-saturated design is emerging across furniture, art, and interiors—marked by whimsical forms, nostalgic textures, and surreal, dopamine-charged aesthetics. From Frieze to Milan Design Week, this movement signals a rejection of austerity and an embrace of joyful excess.

A global design destination is born in Los Angeles

Eichholtz Los Angeles is now open to the public. With their first West Coast flagship, LA native designer Ryan Saghian and celebrated European brand Eichholtz team up for a new standard of luxury.