The Furniture, Lighting & Decor team spent three days running all over Las Vegas Market, listening in on seminars, toasting new showroom openings and trendspotting between all three buildings. Take a look at where we were and what we saw.
Events
Designer Soiree
On Monday night, we attended the summer Designer Soiree at the Lily Room in the Bellagio along with a select group of designers and industry influencers.
#viewonvegas IG takeover
Our Editor-in-Chief Nicole Davis participated in Las Vegas Market’s #viewonvegas Instagram takeover with an esteemed group of fellow tastemakers. See her top five picks of market here.
Furniture, Lighting & Decor Events
“How to Get Published”
Davis presented “How to Get Published” at Jaipur, sharing some guidelines, tips and tricks to submit material that’s bound to grace the pages of our magazine. The most important takeaway is great photography — dazzling room scenes, correct size (10x12 inches at 300 dpi for the cover), inclusion of all of our important product categories (furniture, lighting and decor), orientation that accommodates our logo and lighting that isn’t harsh.
“How to Adapt to a Changing Industry”
Davis sat on a panel put together by Zuo Modern and House Tipster about how to do business in today’s age, and how it’s changed. (from left) Moderated by Christopher Grubb of Arch-Interiors, her fellow panelists included Barrie Livingstone, Designer & Real Estate Guru; Andrea Guardiola, ZUO Décor Director; Patti Carpenter, Global Trend Ambassador; John Erdos, founder & owner of Erdos + Ko in Dallas; and Thomas Wolosik, Creative Director & Co-Host at House Tipster.
Seminars
“The State of the Art: 12 Must-Know Website Design Trends”
MicroD’s Chief Product Office, Richard Sexton, actually gave 15 website design trends. He just couldn’t condense them, he said. Sexton guided listeners through his favorite trends and websites, offering great examples of websites doing it right and some doing it wrong. His best tip? Don’t pack your website design at the top of the page for fear that visitors won’t scroll down. With the popularity of small screens, web users have gotten used to scrolling down the page to get to content, and they’re not as averted to it as before.
“How to Create a Sustainable Future in Design”
Towards the beginning of his presentation, speaker Chris Ramey of The Home Trust International and Affluent Insights pulled up a screenshot from Houzz.com. Before the presentation, he had used the site to search for interior designers in Las Vegas — and the site returned over 700 hits. The experiment best illustrated Ramey’s main point: luxury interior designers will continue to lose business to new competitors unless they acted now. His talk sent interior designers home with plenty to think about.
“Hospitality Trends and Influences on Residential Design”
This panel discussion, led by Edward A. Vance, FAIA, founder and design principal of EV&A Architects and architect of World Market Center Las Vegas, explored how hotel, restaurant and office design affects residential design today. When asked what the biggest trend in hospitality design is right now, here’s how the panelists answered:
Stephen Francis Jones, Founder of SFJones Architects: Smaller restaurants with communal spaces and office spaces with amenities.
Angela Harris, Founder, Principal & Creative Director of TRIO Environments: Wellness. “We can deliver something aesthetically beautifully easily, but how do we capture ease of living?”
Christopher Mercier, AIA, Founder of (fer) studio: Adaptive reuse. “The last 3 or 4 projects we’ve done have been dilapidated warehouses that we’ve renovated.”
Sit Down with Bob Maricich
Davis and Furniture, Lighting & Decor Publisher Susan Jones sat down with International Market Centers (IMC) Chairman and CEO Bob Maricich on the heels of IMC’s merger with AmericasMart Atlanta to learn more about the direction the organizations are taking and how it benefits retailers and designers. Look for the full feature story in our October print issue detailing all the specifics, but the key takeaway was that although some rethinking and re-strategizing will occur at the Atlanta Market, in the words of Maricich, “it’s not broken.” He also says that the strength of the apparel business in Atlanta has been a pleasant surprise to the IMC team and they look forward to exploring that more.
Faces of Market
