When you want to stand out from the herd, you can either highlight your brand with vivid color or you can glam it up with a dose of dazzling gold and shimmery silvers. This is what rug manufacturer Global Accents did at High Point Market. They took the standard hide rug and blinged it! No [...]
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Decorating and Design Trend Marketing: All for a Good Cause, Breast Cancer Awareness
We all know about Breast Cancer and easily recognize the global symbol of a pink ribbon, but did you know that you can now have that symbol as a functional part of your home interior? With Furniture for the Cure™ The Platt Collections has taken cause marketing to a new level with their fresh and [...]
Decorating and Design Top Trends: Luxe Lamps with a Vintage Flair
J Douglas aptly states their tag line as The Art of Living, and an art it truly is. At the recent Highpoint Market I had the pleasure of meeting a handful of their creative manufacturers, including Julie Pinnell of Gallery Designs Lighting. Gallery Designs is part of a third-generation, family-owned lamp manufacturing company based in [...]
Decorating and Design Trend Marketing: All for a Good Cause, Buzz from Bees
One of the keys to effective marketing today is a great hook and at Fall Market in Highpoint, there were some great ones! The first I saw was featured by Ellen Gefen of TheHome.com when she shared what custom upholstery manufacturer C.R. Laine has done to support the honey bees. In case you’ve no clue [...]
Shenzen and The Shangri-la Hotel to Present Top Western Design Trends
We traveled to Shenzhen and The Shangri-la Hotel for our first day of presentations. The original attendance was at 180 but ballooned to over 250 before we got started. Ready had done an incredible job of marketing the event and me! Upon arrival, Ready handed me the current edition of the Chinese Modern Decoration Home [...]
Famous Chinese Interior Designer’s Studio
I was amazed at some of the sights we saw driving about, palm trees dressed in gold lame for decoration. We drove to an artist’s “village” a crowded maze of old and new buildings with a “gate” at the front that is home to many artists. It seemed somewhat deserted and we ambled around for [...]
Sightseeing in Guangzhou, China
The Chinese are masters at landscape artistry and even the highways are lushly planted with tropical looking greenery in full flower. They had plumeria, Japanese maples, crepe myrtles, palm trees, fringe flower and too many more to name. They also embraced the art of topiaries and the Foo Dogs here, or lions as they called [...]
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