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How Marketing Automation Software Helps Small Businesses
Small business owners wear many hats, but the one they often dread wearing is that of marketer. With all the other equally important things to do throughout the day, it's hard to find time to manage …
Beatriz Ball Adopts Autism Awareness as Company Cause
New Orleans-based tableware company Beatriz Ball is adopting autism awareness as its company cause, pledging to donate a portion of all sales this month to Autism Speaks. The company is also…
Bolier & Co. Debuts Modern Metropolis Collection
Bolier & Co. and designer Michael Kirkpatrick have joined forces once more to create a new 12-piece collection. Out this spring, Modern Metropolis by Michael Kirkpatrick features dining room and…
Retail Road Trip: Chicago
The first stop on our road trip is Lighting & Decor’s hometown, Chicago. Home to Willis Tower, deep dish pizza and Al Capone, Windy City showrooms have their work cut out for them. Here’s how…
Designer Q&A: Bat eye
Provoke. Stimulate. Seduce. That's the goal behind every Bat eye piece. In 2011, Marco Sousa debuted his new luxury furniture company at the Décorex in London. So it makes sense that Sousa devote one…
What We Can Learn From Commercial Design
Designing a small shop or restaurant requires a different thought process than designing a home. With the strides that products and technology have made though, what can we learn from the former that…
A Look into the New Currey & Co./Bunny Williams Collaboration
How did the Currey and Bunny Williams partnership form?
Cecil Adams: The partnership between Bunny Williams and Currey & Company began as a mutual admiration of each other’s work. We here at…
Predicting Retail in 2030
In 1989, Back to the Future Part II imagined the world of 2015 as a place of flying cars, self-drying clothes and dehydrated pizza, but as we know, none of those developments really came true (…
What to Know About LEED Certification
Going green is all the rage, and not just because it’s Pantone’s Color of the Year. With more home and commercial property owners looking to create sustainable spaces, builders and interior designers…
The Speed of Trends
I remember attending the KBIS tradeshow in 2010 and overhearing a joke. “Tuscany called, they want their kitchens back!” For 10 years, the Tuscan, Olde World look was radically popular and then,…