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Art underfoot: Soucie Horner founder Shea Soucie on the stories of SHIIR rugs

The Lyric Collection speaks to our unique understanding of designers’ needs. You see, we’re not just rug manufacturers – we’re also interior designers ourselves. And as interior designers, we know how excited we get when we find something beautiful that also works in terms of our functional needs and our budget.

How the Mix Master is shaking things up in Minneapolis

As her team has grown from two to six members in the past few years, Heather Peterson is rethinking her role at her Minneapolis-based firm, Heather Peterson Design. And with the recent addition of a second senior designer, she’s able to move into a creative director role.

Holiday gift guide: by designers, for designers

From Salone del Mobile to Shoppe Object at High Point, each of the products in our holiday gift guide was selected by designers, for designers. With a focus on functionality, uniqueness, and aesthetic appeal, each of the products in our holiday gift guide are poised to inspire and elevate the creative spirits of designers from all disciplines.

Interior designer Gillian Gillies plan to disrupt the fast furniture industry

‘The Climb’ is just the beginning of Gillies’ larger plan to to disrupt consumers’ relationship to fast furniture.

How Jamie Young stays fresh and focused

After more than 25 years in the home furnishings industry, Jamie Young is determined to keep her business — and her products — fresh.

Design Business Blueprint: a well-crafted brand can help your interior design business grow

For an industry that often blurs the lines between personal passion and professional service, a strong brand can help differentiate you.

Hudson Grace on authenticity and retail as theater

If you’ve ever thought about starting a business with your best friend, you’ll love the story of Hudson Grace. Hudson Grace had its humble beginning as the brainchild of best friends Monelle Totah and Gary McNatton in San Francisco in 2012. A fusion of their distinctive design sensibilities and extensive retail experience made for fertile soil to grow their brand, eventually selling Hudson Grace to Crate & Barrel in 2019.

Exclusive sneak peek inside the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas

Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has been celebrating the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology since 1973. In 2020, it launched its newest satellite show house in Dallas, Texas. The highly esteemed design event heads back to the South for its fourth iteration to enlist some of the nation’s most talented interior designers to transform a home in Dallas, Texas next month. Here is a preview inside some of the sensational spaces.

Market musings: Was High Point Fall 2023 a successful market? 

The patchiness of the market’s attendance highlighted that what the big box buyers want and what the new class of interior designers want is diverging in a major way, forcing some brands to pick a lane

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Good design starts with asking the right questions

Creating restorative, healing, energizing spaces — the sanctuaries that many clients crave and need — starts by asking them the right questions. Designers who spoke as part of the recent Design, Art & Science Symposium in High Point shared the questions they use in initial client meetings.