Business of Home • 28th February 2025

D&D Building owner Charles Cohen loses $187 million appeal

Once more, billionaire design center landlord Charles Cohen is on the hook for an outstanding payment—this time, it’s $187 million of his own funds.

Business of Home • 9th October 2024

Could a wave of lawsuits change the future of engineered stone?

Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez noticed his first symptoms in 2020: a persistent cough and shortness of breath, originally misdiagnosed as pneumonia. It would take about a year before the 34-year-old stonecutter learned the true nature of his diagnosis.

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 • 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 • 24th May 2023

The Moroccan rug industry gets the DTC treatment

American ties are well-positioned to facilitate sales—yet that system still divorces artisans from direct profits.

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 • 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 • 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.

Business of Home • 7th July 2022

Fashion has embraced alternative materials. Why not home?

Mushrooms, seaweed, insects: Manufacturers are experimenting with every conceivable alternative material in the race toward a more sustainable future, and while several brands in the fashion world have already adopted them, the home industry, for the most part, lags behind. What is the holdup?

24th March 2022

A designer’s guide to green product certifications

As we’ve accepted that what’s better for the Earth is often better for humans too, consumers and designers alike increasingly seek out products that meet verified standards for both sustainability and wellness. Much like labels designating organic foods began to crop up in the early 1990s, so too have an array of certifications for materials emerged within the home industry.

Business of Home • 25th May 2022

Do NFTs have a place in the home?

NFTs are increasingly making their way into the home world, with marketplaces like 1stDibs hosting auctions for the digital assets and manufacturers such as Nathan Anthony debuting cryptocurrency-inspired furniture collections at this year’s Spring High Point Market. When it comes to interiors, however, the increased attention around digital artwork raises the question of whether virtual possessions are actually making their way into homes—and if so, how exactly does that work?

Business of Home • 19th May 2022

The industry’s first AAPI organization makes its debut

More than a year ago, interior designers Young Huh and Jessica Davis, owner of Atelier Davis, began a series of phone calls in which they envisioned the creation of a new kind of space within the design industry—one dedicated specifically to students, makers and professionals who identified as Asian-American and Pacific Islander.

14th April 2022

Can crowdfunding change the game for home brands?

In recent months, a fresh crop of home brands have launched campaigns on crowdfunded investment platforms like Republic. BOH dives into the new form of fundraising and explores its growing popularity.

20th March 2021

The textile designer bringing Ethiopian craft to a new audience

It might not seem ideal to split a small business across two continents—but for textile designer Hana Getachew it’s essential. To produce her collections of ethically sourced handwoven pillows, throws and linens, the Kingston, New York–based owner of Bolé Road Textiles collaborates with artisans living and working in Ethiopia.

5280 • 16th December 2020

Colorado Theater Groups Continue to Perform in Extraordinary Settings

Amanda Berg Wilson admits there were some logistical challenges involved in staging a full-length play on a golf course. Some surprise elements were pleasant, like residents living on the outskirts of the course joining in for a nightly call-and-response section written into the script. Others were less so, such as cast members having to take turns serving as “coyote babysitters” on the lookout for a roving local pack.

5280 • 29th January 2021

How Colorado Breweries Weathered the Aluminum Can Shortage

As the COVID-19 pandemic forced bars to empty out, brewers and drinkers alike found ways to bring the taproom atmosphere back home—mostly in the form of canned beverages. They pivoted so hard, in fact, that by early October can manufacturer Ball Corporation reported a shortage of 10 billion cans in the United States.