Cuban Shutters Open the Biaki Door for Dani Arps
Sometimes the design industry finds us first. Dani Arps, a 2017 Stars of Design; Stars on the Rise award recipient, started her career the way most hope for, with “a happy accident” and continues to shine with the latest Biaki New York x Dani Arps collaboration. This 32-year-old designer is redefining the way start-ups design […]
PDC Presents: George Smith & Studio Van den Akker
Gone are the lazy summer days, as the fall ‘busy’ season is well underway with events and new collections galore. Throughout the past few months, the Cohen Design Centers have been buzzing with Markets and also highly anticipated showroom grand openings. The Pacific Design Center’s vast showroom portfolio gains two new luxurious additions this season, […]
Three Top Brands Celebrate Big Birthdays
GDG celebrates three top brands’ monumental milestone years. From birthdays that range from a century to a half-century, these heritage names remain true to their roots, while maintaining consistent relevance. Happy 100th to Florence Knoll & 80th to the Knoll company in 2018, 70th to Pindler and big 5-0 to Fortuny of design success! Knoll […]
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 […]