Designer Insight
Shares the views of our panel of designers from various aspects of the industry on a range of subjects.
National Interior Design Society to launch chapter in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS -- The National Interior Design Society will launch its 28th chapter here April 29, it's first in Nevada, hosted by Las Vegas Design Center. The formation meeting will feature special guests IDS CEO Pamela G. White and IDS National Chapter Coordinator Stephanie Garrett. All residential interior designers, builders, industry, trade and students are welcome.A networking mixer will begin at... Read More
Comments (1)Groovystuff hosting luncheon, design seminar on rustic and mountain living at High Point Market
On Sunday, April 3rd in High Point, Groovystuff is bringing outdoorsman Dick Idol and rustic homes designer Allen Halcomb (Moss Creek) together at a "lunch-and-learn" event for interior designers serving the luxury, mountain, lake and rustic resort communities.The 12-1:00 p.m. event, sponsored by MossCreek, will be held in the Groovystuff showroom on the ground floor of the Suites at Mar... Read More
Comments (0)"Designing for the aging" is topic of 7W Designer Day panel presentation, March 17
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- In collaboration with the International Furnishings & Design Association N.Y. Chapter, the IFDA Educational Foundation and the National Kitchen & Bath Association, 7 W New York will hold its dynamic Designer Day event at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show on Thursday, March 17th, with a panel discussion from 1-2 p.m. and a networking reception to immediately follow.Coincid... Read More
Comments (0)Thomas Jayne on the decorative metalwork of NYC's P.E. Guerin
Thomas Jayne recently toured P. E. Guerin's decorative metals workroom in Manhattan's West Village and shared his photos and thoughts in a post for Interior Design. "It is remarkable to find a place that still casts brass and makes custom decorative hardware, let alone in the midst of Manhattan," Jayne writes. "The city today has become wall to wall apartments and office towers with... Read More
Comments (0)New documentary about "Learning from Las Vegas" authors/architects to debut at Las Vegas Market
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown , authors of the 1972 architectural book, Learning from Las Vegas, are the subject of Bob and Denise, a documentary by their son, Jim Venturi. A preview of the film will be screened along with Saving Lieb House, a short documentary, also by Venturi, during the Las Vegas Market, Jan. 25, 2011, at 6:30 p.m., as part of the Las Vegas Market Design Series. The pre... Read More
Comments (2)Thomas O'Brien to keynote at L.A. Mart Design Center and California Gift Show
L.A. Mart Design Center and the California Gift Show announced that interiors and product designer Thomas O'Brien will give the January Market's keynote presentation on Friday, Jan. 21st. O'Brien, who has made appearances at several L.A. Mart Design Center events, will discuss his design philosophy and his book, American Modern, a survey of seven of his most influential projects ranging from tradi... Read More
Comments (0)Interior designers curate special photo collection from century-old archive
The New York Times Store tapped Jonathan Adler, Thom Filicia, Laura Kirar, Kelly Wearstler and Vicente Wolf to select images from its legendary archive to curate a collection that expresses their personal ideas about photography as an element of interior design.Each designer chose 10 pictures from the photo archive, which dates back to the late 1800s, as well as mats and premium frames - in pewter... Read More
Comments (1)Forty One Madison and Veranda invite NY designers to 'Interior Designer Evening'
Forty One Madison has launched a series of initiatives aimed at encouraging interior designers and decorating professionals to experience the New York Tabletop Market and add it to their reservoir of design resources."So many of the tableware brands represented here at Forty One Madison are of the caliber that interest interior designers, whether they're specifying for a residence, a yacht, a... Read More
Comments (1)Design Viewpoints Lecture Series for Interior Designers on tap for October High Point Market
The High Point Market Authority, in association with the American Society of Interior Designers, is again producing its seminar series for interior designers during the October High Point Market. The Design Viewpoints Lecture Series, occurring daily at noon, offers up to .3 continuing education units. The lectures will take place Oct. 17-19 at 100 High Street, Plaza Level.All seminars in the Desig... Read More
Comments (0)Nowell's Contemporary Furniture to host party for modern homes tour
CARY, N.C. - Nowell's Contemporary Furniture will host the Triangle Modernist Houses' ModStock House Tour Party on Thursday, Sept. 23, from 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public with registration, the party kicks off the TMH's 2010 Modern Homes Tour in Raleigh.The 2010 tour, on Sept. 25, is the 14th tour of Modernist homes that the non-profit preservation organization has sponsored in its three-yea... Read More
Comments (3)Casa Medici Designs debuts new collection at Sept. 16 event
LOS ANGELES -- Casa Medici Designs will debut a new collection of custom designed furniture, decorative arts and architectural paneling in its inaugural exhibit, "Sui Generis," Sept. 16th from 6:00 pm to midnight. The company's showroom is located in the historic Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building at 618 S. Spring Street. "When creating the new line for Casa Medici Designs, we inco... Read More
Comments (0)Gio Ponti is Joan Ockman's topic at Sept. 20 reception in NYC
Joan Ockman will be speaking about Gio Ponti at a reception Sept. 20 at the Molteni&C Dada Unifor flagship store in New York. From 1994 to 2008, Ockman, an architectural historian, critic, educator and editor, was Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she also taugh... Read More
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