Business of Home • 7th November 2023

Luxury real estate surges, WeWork files for Chapter 11 and more

This week in design, Barbara Walters’s former 11-room Fifth Avenue apartment has been turned inside out ahead of a Bonhams auction of the late TV broadcaster’s belongings, including design treasures such as a cherry red Eames chair and ottoman, a custom Mario Buatta tufted armchair and dining chairs upholstered by Oscar de la Renta himself. Stay in the know with our weekly roundup of headlines, launches, events, recommended reading and more.

Business of Home • 31st October 2023

Pinterest hits a post-pandemic high, the challenges of selling a haunted house and more

Faux food, disco balls, mushrooms and ring lights—if any of these appear in your home, you may be well on your way to winning Gen Z apartment bingo. Stay in the know with our weekly roundup of headlines, launches, events, recommended reading and more.

Business of Home • 24th October 2023

Design Miami is acquired, how white paint became so polarizing and more

This week in design, some homeowners are putting their faith in designers to transform former churches into well-designed residential dwellings.

Business of Home • 26th September 2023

Kelly Wearstler experiments with AI, the Art Institutes collapse leaves design students stranded and more

A-list celebrities issued their fair share of apology videos in recent weeks—but for some, their carefully curated residential backdrops tell the real story. Stay in the know with our weekly roundup of headlines, launches, events, recommended reading and more.

Business of Home • 6th September 2023

Your vendor closed overnight. What next?

The design industry experienced a massive shock last week when beloved brand Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams halted operations and closed its doors overnight, citing financial troubles that became untenable when the bank cut the company’s line of credit. Still, the abrupt shutdown was not an anomaly: Just last month, Klaussner Home Furnishings unexpectedly shuttered in a similar manner.

Business of Home • 23rd August 2023

David Quarles IV wants to be the next Martha Stewart. Here’s his game plan

In Ask an Influencer, Business of Home explores the creator economy. This week, we spoke with David Quarles IV, the designer and lifestyle influencer behind Studio 417. Before there was DIY, there was David Quarles IV’s family. Growing up in Memphis, he watched his grandmother arrange her own florals and even mix her own paint to make sure the color was just right.

Business of Home • 16th August 2023

What the latest TikTok dustup tells us about design culture online

In early August, TikTok erupted with yet another case of influencer-on-influencer drama—but this time, the design world was at the center of the conflict.

Business of Home • 8th August 2023

Gwyneth Paltrow’s home is now on Airbnb, Klaussner collapses and more

Home renovations often reveal unexpected details that were long ago painted or built over—one bed-and-breakfast in the English countryside recently uncovered not one, but two historic design details: rare Delft tiles and a centuries-old Carrara marble fireplace. Stay in the know with our weekly roundup of headlines, launches, events, recommended reading and more.

Business of Home • 2nd August 2023

The making of a microtrend

It’s official: We are currently in the midst of “tomato girl summer.” If you haven’t heard, the trend is inspired by the colorful pomodoro-laden dishes of the Mediterranean coast, centers on a palette of red and neutral colors—and already has 42 million views on TikTok. Accordingly, product roundups from publications like Vogue have sprung up to help fans shop the look for their spaces with a variety of garden- and tomato-scented candles and home sprays.

Business of Home • 24th July 2023

Jonsara Ruth: ‘Designers have a huge role to play’ in the shift toward sustainability

Everyone deserves to have good design—that’s the maxim that drove Jonsara Ruth to pursue a career in industrial design and eventually landed her a position overseeing the mass production of furniture for a Martha Stewart collection.

Business of Home • 14th June 2023

The ‘silver tsunami’ is coming. Are designers ready?

For years, researchers and policymakers have spoken about the coming demographic shift in epic terms with phrases like “gray wave” or “silver tsunami.” The bottom line: Due to increased life expectancy and the postwar baby boom, the U.S. population is aging. Today, there are more than 46 million adults aged 65 and older, and by 2050, that number will practically double to nearly 90 million.

Business of Home • 29th March 2023

Creating while at war: A new design fair showcases and supports Ukrainian makers

After co-founding Gogola Agency, a communications firm based in Los Angeles and Kyiv, in 2019, CEO Anna Pagava came to a realization: People around the world don’t always have an accurate understanding of modern Ukraine.

Business of Home • 22nd March 2023

Dabito wants to demystify money talk on social media

In Ask an Influencer, Business of Home explores the creator economy. This week, we spoke with Dabito, the Los Angeles–based interior designer and photographer behind design blog Old Brand New. Growing up, Dabito always dreamed of one thing: a space of his own.

Business of Home • 20th February 2023

Off the page: Design journal Deem launches Chicago symposium

When design strategist Nu Goteh, editor Alice Grandoit-Šutka and documentary filmmaker Marquise Stillwell co-founded Deem in the spring of 2020, they had a list of goals for their design publication. Chief among them was to establish a platform to explore design, in all its forms, as a social practice geared toward serving community needs.

Business of Home • 17th February 2023

How this startup saved $19 million worth of furnishings from the landfill

When a building is demolished or a company decides to downsize, the issue of where all the extra stuff inside will go—the furniture, office equipment, decor and artwork—is often swept to the side. The problem of redirecting used items is not one that many companies choose to focus on, and for that reason, it’s become enormous: an estimated $600 billion in surplus assets sit idle in American companies today.

Business of Home • 25th January 2023

Everyone launched a rug brand in 2022. Why?

Without a doubt, 2022 was the year of the rug. You might have noticed it—in recent months, a striking number of heritage design brands and emerging names alike have entered the rug arena, while a vast array of interior designers, artists and influencers have flooded the sector with their own, often first-time, rug collaborations.

Business of Home • 7th December 2022

Why leveling up means longevity for Delia Kenza

In her early career, Delia Kenza was never one to have a five- or 10-year plan mapped out—in fact, she often didn’t know what her next career move would be until it happened. That’s how, after a decade spent practicing law, she took the birth of her first child as a natural off-ramp from a profession she’d long felt just wasn’t quite right for her.

Business of Home • 2nd November 2022

A designer’s guide to antiquing abroad

Some of the oldest and rarest vintage treasures can be found overseas. An adventurous cohort of designers and experts reveal the best ways to source items abroad—and how to bring them back home.

Business of Home • 24th August 2022

How to scale when ‘curated’ is your concept

For a recent crop of popular direct-to-consumer home brands, the axiom “Quality over quantity” has taken on new meaning—not just sage shopping advice, but a raison d’être. By focusing on a highly curated assortment of products, such companies marketed their goods as the answer to decision fatigue among consumers overwhelmed by a saturated home market in categories from upholstery to paint to kitchen essentials.

Business of Home • 21st August 2022

How this firm is helping clients cut carbon emissions

Of the thousands of considerations that go into designing a home, environmental impact is not often the biggest. But for design/build firm CarbonShack, sustainability is top of mind during the entire design process—and now, with the debut of a new product line and showroom space, the company is hoping to bring that message into other firms’ projects as well.