DCOTA Fall Market 2017 Preview

Tomorrow the Cohen Design Centers’ successful Fall Market season wraps up at the DCOTA. Last, but certainly not least, the DCOTA Fall Market 2017 features two featured programs, three showroom debuts, 37 product launches and 21 open houses, oh my! Plus for more opportunities for innovative learning, visit the two CEUS, ‘The Science of Home […]

Opening The Interior Designers ‘Cabinet’: Art & Design

So you’re tasked with building a dream home for a client. Just start with the rug and you’re good to go, right? Wrong. The industry’s top designers have a host of experts that help turn their client’s vision into a reality. As we learned during DDB’s Fall Market 2017 Keynote with ELLE DECOR featuring designers […]

Les Ensembliers: Wanderlust Full of Wonder

Conversation is the spice of life, and the instrument of interior design magic. One fateful morning, at 7:45 am, what was supposed to be a 15-minute walk through of the Kravet offices turned into a four-hour spell of chatting and laughing and thus collaboration sparked the inspiration for a fresh collection. “It’s kind of like […]

What’s Hue: A Passion for Purple

One peek into star Designer Alex Papachristidis New York City dining room will leave you plum — which judging by recent interior trends is the opposite of glum. Papachristidis deems plum purple a neutral, rather than an adventurous hue according to a feature in Traditional Home, feature, Setting the Table with Alex Papachristidis. “It looks […]

Behind The Glass: Lorin Marsh Teams With Man O’ Design

Brains, alien heads and notoriously poisonous jellyfish; not exactly the first three images that come to mind when thinking Lorin Marsh. However, this season’s D and D Building window display refines the fantastic and shapes a sense of art tête-à-tête. Robert Malmberg is a NYC-based fine arts photographer with Louisville roots and a L.A. education, […]

Meet Clarence House’s Master of Textile: Kazumi Yoshida

Robin Roberts, the creator of Clarence House, was looking for fabrics, but he couldn’t find any he liked. So Robin started making his own and with the help of an eccentric new friend, his vision was fulfilled. It’s fitting that the namesake of Clarence House all started with a joke, because Kazumi Yoshida has that […]

Bold BOO-tiful Interiors: 6 Ideas for Spooky Sophistication

October 31st is a time for spooky stories, candy corn diets and at GDG, time to trick or treat- yourself. Here are GDG’s top picks for décor that don’t involve cotton-ball cobwebs: The Great(er) Pumpkin Finally, a way to incorporate everyone’s favorite color combo, blue and white into the usual orange/black scheme. Chinoiserie chic pumpkins […]

Meet Taylor Cinalli: DCOTA VP & Director of Marketing

The DCOTA, our Cohen Design Center located in Dania Beach, Florida, has a new VP, Director of Marketing. She’s traveled around the world by private jet, worked in luxury markets and…befriended donkeys? Meet Taylor Cinalli: What were the most interesting jobs you held prior to joining the DCOTA? I’ve always been in travel or hospitality, and […]

PDC Fall Market: Best of the Bests

The PDC Fall Market 2017 featured many ‘L.A. Stories,’ but the true tale of the event’s success comes from its participants’ perspectives. The So-Cal creative renaissance budding in L.A. was examined from all angles of design, through timeless architecture, millennial misconceptions and celebrating vibrant diversity. Keynotes and in-showroom programs twirled around our heads during the […]

Seeing Red

The Benjamin Moore Color & Design Team annually forecasts color trends following a yearlong research journey. This year, the journey took the team to 30 cities across 12 countries, traveling nearly 100,000 miles to bring you… drum roll please… Caliente! GDG talked to Priscilla Ghaznavi, the Director of Color & Design Studio at Benjamin Moore, […]