Courtney Porter
Designers from around the globe are converging in Milan for Fuorisalone Milan Design Week, April 15 – 21 to exchange ideas and showcase projects that influence our current reality. Through a myriad of events, exhibitions, and installations scattered throughout the city, they aim to shape our present. The theme put forward by Fuorisalone.it, “Materia Natura,” seeks to foster a culture of mindful design.
The future of home design is going to be highly personalized, experiential, and hospitality and commercially influenced. While the Qoldfusion walk-in cold pantry works wonderfully in contemporary commercial exhibition kitchens they have their sights set on the residential market. “Today’s consumers are aspiring to be chefs… they want culinary spaces that mimic the commercial [kitchen], but with style and flair” says Qoldfusion founder Dale Seiden.
Unrealism is a 21st-century art form. It immerses the meditative mind into a surreal
universe of vibrant colors and fluidity. Transcending the constraints of structure, this
trance-like experience echoes the ancient practice of deep meditation.
Kicking off with an invitation-only preview on Thursday, February 29, Frieze Los Angeles continued through Sunday, March 3 and brought together galleries, institutions, artists and patrons to celebrate the city’s vibrant and expanding cultural landscape.
For this season’s special presentation in the High Point Theatre, HPMA will introduce celebrity designer Brigette Romanek to the panel of successful design entrepreneurs. Once again moderated by Business of Home podcast host Dennis Scully, the discussion will expand on last year’s standing room only event including Gaines and Lewis, “Designing a Business You Love,” about creating a design-oriented brand with staying power.
Entitled The Role of Media in Shaping Client Expectations, the panel will offer a thought-provoking discussion with a lineup of design industry experts including celebrity designer Kelli Ellis, Design News Now Editor in Chief Courtney Porter, and AD photographer Tori Sikkema.
Christopher Kempel started working in architecture in the early 90s which places him in a strange place between the older generation who predominantly hand-render and the younger generation who predominantly digitally-render. He sees the value of both. That is a common thread when you talk to Kempel: his ability to bring different groups together and unite them for a shared mission.
Populus, the country’s first carbon positive hotel opening in Denver in summer of 2024, is pleased to unveil its nature-forward interior designs by Wildman Chalmers Design in partnership with Fowler + Fowler Architecture
The Fab Five is once again complete as interior designer Jeremiah Brent is slated to join Season 9 of “Queer Eye” alongside hosts Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, and Tan France.
The brand-new space features 4,000 square feet of gallery-style displays, inspirational vignettes, and attractive meeting areas to serve the design industry in Southern California and beyond