Courtney Porter
Last week the Pacific Design Center hosted their annual Spring Market in West Hollywood, where the West Coast’s premier luxury interior designers and vendors gather for state-of-the-industry panel discussions and fireside chats, and where showrooms were awash with feminine curves, moody palettes, edgy accents, and lots and lots of texture.
April 18 2024 sees the launch of Little Greene’s ‘Sweet Treats’, a curated collection of warm, neutral shades of honey, caramel and chocolate, each color inspired by delicious desserts and some of the worlds most tasteful sweet treats.
Architect Kevin Ervin Kelley discuss the future of retail design, gender preferences in design, why we get exhausted in furniture stores, and his new book, Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together
A quick Zillow search of homes for sale in Bergen county, New Jersey will turn up many traditional single-family homes for sale. Plan Architecture has, in a short amount of time, managed to corner the luxury residential design market in the tristate area, working closely with real estate agents. Yet their signature style is anything but traditional. Today on Disruptive Design, DNN Editor in Chief Courtney Porter sits down with Plan Architecture’s principal architect and interior designer, Dan D’Agostino, to discuss the ways their daring style is taking over, challenging the status quo, one new build at a time.
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.