Have it your way: tips for customizing products

Even experienced interior designers can make mistakes when commissioning custom home furnishings. High Point x Design recently hosted a panel of custom manufacturers who offered ideas for creative collabs that will give your clients something glorious to talk about for years.

Gift for Life Presents “Party with Peter” a 70 ½ Birthday Wine Tasting Fundraiser Benefiting World Central Kitchen

Gift for Life, the gift and home industry’s longest-running, volunteer-led charitable organization, announces an evening of celebration and philanthropy at “Party with Peter,” a 70 ½ Birthday Wine Tasting Fundraiser benefiting World Central Kitchen, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, at The Candler Hotel in downtown Atlanta.

ANDMORE Shifts Atlanta 2026 Summer market dates due to FIFA World Cup schedule

ATLANTA, GA – June 10, 2024 – ANDMORE℠ announces a Summer 2026 rescheduling of Atlanta Market and co-location with Atlanta Apparel to accommodate a successful market while Atlanta hosts FIFA World Cup matches. The two markets, which will run concurrently across all three AmericasMart Atlanta buildings, will offer attendees a broader range of complementary resources and synergistic cross-category shopping opportunities.

Tohoku Project presents Craft x Tech during Design Miami/Basel

Craft x Tech features collaborations with renowned designers from around the world such as Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis who works with Akita artisans and presents Yōkan, a series of two tables with a voluminous design and a wall-mounted piece, all lacquered in Kawatsura Shikki’s style.

Christie’s presents Spring design auction

NEW YORK– Christie’s New York is pleased to announce Design sale, a live auction taking place on…

IFDA’s educational foundation announces professional grants for 2024

Applications will be accepted between June 1 and June 30, 2024, for five professional grants from the Educational Foundation (EF) of IFDA, the International Furnishings and Design Association. Since 1968, this 77-year-old global design industry alliance has awarded grants to talented professionals as well as scholarships to high-achieving design students, internationally. Last year, the funds awarded for scholarships and grants to taled $30,000.  

Kalco Lighting announces partnership with interior design experts Lyndsay Lamb and Leslie Davis

Real estate agents and HGTV’s Unsellable Houses Hosts Lyndsay & Leslie will infuse Kalco’s luxury lighting into 2024 projects

DAA 2025-2026 Committee Applications Open to Industry 

The Diversity Advocacy Alliance (DAA), working in partnership with the High Point Market Authority (HPMA), has opened its 2025-2026 committee member applications to the industry, through June 21.

The Evars Effect: reimagining the trade showroom experience for the modern age

After successful stints in public relations and launching her own interior design firm, Nancy Evars founded Evars Collective in 2020, which includes two multi-line showrooms in the California Bay Area that serve as a creative hub for the design community and have quickly become togo-to trade resources in the bay. 

ArtSeen celebrates 30 years of bridging the gap between designers and artists

Leonardo Ledesma, founder of the LA-based art curation company ArtSeen, has spent three decades collaborating with top designers and sourcing art works from a global array of talented artists.