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Making Old New Again

Making Old New Again

Isn’t it remarkable how the past is always with us? How objects, textures and things that were part of that past still surround us, but rather than haunt, they offer a feeling of comfort, security and warmth. Not many of us live in homes or apartments with exposed walls of aged bricks, nor do we walk on floors covered with ancient timber, yet when we enter a shop or café or bar…

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Chicago’s Recipe for Culinary Icons – Passion+Inspiration=Today’s Top Chefs

Chicago’s Recipe for Culinary Icons – Passion+Inspiration=Today’s Top Chefs

In the culinary world, if you asked most people to name the leading trend-setting U.S. cities the answer would be easy – it follows a line across the United States from New York to Chicago to San Francisco. These cities are often the birthplace of hot new concepts that flow out in waves and trickle down to the masses. And as culinary diversity grows across the country, these…

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Inspiring the Path to Purchase: Social Media Influencers

Inspiring the Path to Purchase: Social Media Influencers

Meet Melissa Maker, the woman behind the Clean My Space YouTube channel, and Beth Le Manach, the woman at the helm of YouTube’s Entertaining with Beth. Millions of people view these clever cleaning and cooking queens online, making them some of today’s top social media influencers and YouTube stars. There is one obvious thing that Melissa Maker and Beth Le Manach have in…

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Sweet Dreams Are Made of These

Sweet Dreams Are Made of These

Baking makes a home feel cozy and safe, producing a caring atmosphere full of love and nurturing. Because baking makes those who bake happy and those around them grateful, Manuela Kjeilen started baking more. It was her life’s passion, although at first she didn’t know it. Manuela baked because she wanted to give something – everything – to her family. And when that family…

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Calming Trends for Fall/Winter 2016

Calming Trends for Fall/Winter 2016

Trend Bible is a home and interiors-dedicated forecasting agency working with leading international brands to help them understand the future of their market. They forecast future trends in the behavior of consumers in a two-to-five year timeframe and analyze how this will impact the home environment. What will be influencing design for the home in Fall/Winter…

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Back to Basics: The Essentials of Success

Back to Basics: The Essentials of Success

To be innovative and successful in today's complex marketplace, housewares manufacturers need to focus their strategy, listen to the consumer, deliver more value, enable creativity and experience and engage consumers in new ways, IHA's lifestyle trends forecaster Tom Mirabile told attendees at the 2015 International Home + Housewares Show. “You have to ask yourself: ‘Am I…

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PANTONE®VIEW home + interiors 2016 Future Color/Design Trends: Innovation and Impact

PANTONE®VIEW home + interiors 2016 Future Color/Design Trends: Innovation and Impact

In our highly competitive global marketplace, would-be consumers are continuously being wooed by evocative, imaginative and innovative uses of color and design. Staying on top of the latest color trends and forecasts in a highly visual world is vitally important to selling your products or services. Introducing the 2016 Pantone View home + interiors color palettes at the…

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Inside Discover Design: Magisso

Inside Discover Design: Magisso

Simple and smart, Magisso home goods products reflect the attitude and atmosphere expected of Scandinavian design. Their hand tools and kitchenware reduce the complexities of daily tasks; tableware inspires harmony and calm. Legendary Finnish design infuses innovation with comfort in modern interpretations of form and function. IHA: Juhani, where do you find inspiration when…

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From the World of Design and Fashion: Thomas Lundgren

From the World of Design and Fashion: Thomas Lundgren

Meet a ‘Creative Emotional Originator’ (CEO), Thomas Lundgren, who not only aims to improve people’s lives through affordable home fashion, but also passionately strives to make the world a better place. Thomas Lundgren is the founder and CEO of THE One (Total Home Experience) — a fashion-focused homewares chain in the Middle East with 21 stores across eight countries that…

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