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Market Watch: The Lighting and Home Furnishings Overlap
The lighting and home decor retail market is undergoing a transformation. This transformation, in response to several factors —online retailing, millennial purchasing power, technological…
Brian Patrick Flynn Hulton Pendant
Brian Patrick Flynn introduced his first lighting collection with Crystorama at the 2017 winter Lightovation show; Hulton was one of the standouts. With its strong sculptural qualities and bold…
8 Little-Known Skills for Amazon’s Alexa
As smart home technology becomes more popular and common place, showrooms and interior designers can expect to hear more about Amazon’s Alexa from clients. This voice service has the ability to…
Helping the U.S.VETS at 2017 ART +IDS Conference
One unforgettable part of the 2017 ART + IDS joint conference in Scottsdale, AZ, happening May 18-21, is sure to be the community service project benefitting an organization called U.S.VETS.…
Light + Design on Ten Shines at Dallas Market Center
This year, Dallas Market Center opened the new Light + Design on Ten gallery. With 20,000 square feet of space, this stylish gallery shows off the latest in decorative residential lighting from the…
How to Handle a Bad Online Review
The most recent survey from BasicLocal shows that 84 percent of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. So when you receive a bad online review, you might feel anxious and…
LEDucation Preview 2017
Designers Lighting Forum of New York provides designers, architects and manufacturers a chance to connect over lighting design at LEDucation in New York City, March 28-29.
Why Online Reviews Matter
When it comes to building a killer searching engine optimization (SEO) strategy, online reviews remain one of the most important components. Google considers an online review to be unique content,…
Shower in Style: How U by Moen Is Taking Smart Technology to the Shower
It truly is the time to be alive when you can control your morning shower in between hitting the snooze button. This year, Moen launched the first Wi-Fi/cloud-based app driven digital shower system…
5 Answers to Tough Customer LED Questions
As LEDs grow in popularity, chances are more clients will be asking tough LED questions that interior designers or even home furnishings retailers may not know how to answer.
We asked experts at…