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.
We think of our homes as centers of family life, restful retreats from the world, places for socializing. But they, too, can foster health and wellness. We consider ways large and small to add features that improve physical and mental well-being.
The High Point Market Authority (HPMA) releases its Spring Market programming and events scheduled for HPMA’s branded pop-up venue The Point, which operates daily from Friday, Apr. 12, to Wednesday, Apr. 17.
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.
Aesthetics, functionality, technology, and green awareness: the Scapin Group company talks about its range of kitchen and bathroom furnishings and counter-tops, from the assortment of quartz surfaces that satisfies the desire for bolder designs, to its revolutionary Ecotone™ collection.
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.
Cameron Cook-Sellers has joined the company as vice president – brand marketing & communications. In this new role, she will oversee brand marketing, growth marketing and insights, partnerships and licensing, and global communications. In her new role, she will report to Johne Albanese, Chief Marketing Officer.
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.