Habitat Retail Ltd, trading as Habitat, is a retailer of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group.
Dallas Market Center, located in Dallas, Texas (USA), is a 5 million square foot wholesale trade center housing showrooms which sells consumer products including gifts, lighting, home décor, apparel, fashion accessories, shoes, tabletop/housewares, gourmet, floral, holiday, and more. It was also the destination of United States President John F. Kennedy's motorcade when he was assassinated in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. The marketplace is closed to the public but open to qualified retail buyers and interior designers, manufacturers, and industry professionals. Market events throughout the year attract more than 200,000 buyers and sellers from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. The address is 2200 Stemmons Fwy, Dallas, Texas 75207, USA.
Bonded leather, also called reconstituted leather or blended leather, is a term used for a manufactured upholstery material which contains animal hide. It is made as a layered structure of a fiber or paper backer covered with a layer of shredded leather fibers mixed with natural rubber or a polyurethane binder that is embossed with a leather-like texture.
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. is an American home furnishings manufacturer and retailer, headquartered in Arcadia, Wisconsin. The company is owned by father and son team Ron and Todd Wanek. Ashley Furniture manufactures and distributes home furniture products throughout the world.
Furniture Style (magazine) was a monthly business-to-business magazine and Web site serving home furnishings retailers, specifically furniture retailers, and interior designers. Owned by William C. Vance's Vance Publishing Corp., the magazine was BPA-audited and reaches 25,000 furniture retail professionals in the United States and Canada. The magazine was based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, at Vance Publishing's corporate headquarters; it was founded in October 1996. Key members of the editorial staff included Julie M. Smith, publisher; Romy Schafer, editor; Thomas A. Prais & Sara Sandock, managing editors; and Senior Contributing Editor Nancy Robinson. It ceased publication in 2009. The next year, Vance sold the Furniture Style assets to Scranton Gillette Communications.
Casual Living is a trade publication and website owned by Progressive Business Media serving the information needs of retailers that sell outdoor furnishings and accessories as well as manufacturers and suppliers to the industry.
Evan Cole is the American founder and CEO of H.D. Buttercup, a home furnishings and interiors retailer with five California locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco (SOMA).
Room & Board is an American modern furniture and home furnishings retailer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
J.C. Hryb is an interior designer born in Versailles (France) and emigrated to The United States of America in 1993.
Fashion forecasting is a global career that focuses on upcoming trends. A fashion forecaster predicts the colors, fabrics, textures, materials, prints, graphics, beauty/grooming, accessories, footwear, street style, and other styles that will be presented on the runway and in the stores for the upcoming seasons. The concept applies to not one, but all levels of the fashion industry including haute couture, ready-to-wear, mass market, and street wear. Trend forecasting is an overall process that focuses on other industries such as automobiles, medicine, food and beverages, literature, and home furnishings. Fashion forecasters are responsible for attracting consumers and helping retail businesses and designers sell their brands. Today, fashion industry workers rely on the Internet to retrieve information on new looks, hot colors, celebrity wardrobes, and designer collections.
Modern Bathroom is a California-based manufacturer and retailer of bathroom fixtures and furniture, specializing in modern and traditional bathroom vanities. Founded in May 2004 by Martin Symes, the company has bathroom showrooms in Orange County and Los Angeles, with the Los Angeles showroom being the largest of its kind in the state of California. Apart from its own Modern Bathroom brand, the company sells brands such as Kohler, Grohe, Fairmont, Danze, Toto, and MTI. In 2011 it began distributing the Wyndham Collection, which was custom designed for Modern Bathroom by Christopher Grubb, a Beverly Hills-based interior designer and HGTV contributor.
Sheila Bridges is an American interior designer who founded her own firm, Sheila Bridges Design, Inc., in 1994. Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bridges moved to New York City in 1986. She holds degrees from Brown University and Parsons School of Design, and studied decorative arts at Polimoda in Florence, Italy.
An interior design magazine is a publication that focuses primarily on interior design in a hard copy periodical format or on the Internet.
Ballard Designs is an omnichannel retail company that designs and sells home furniture and accessories with a European influence. Formally part of Cornerstone Brands, a subsidiary of HSN Inc., the company is now one of the Qurate Retail portfolio brands, collectively owned by Qurate Retail Group. There are currently nine retail stores: Two in Florida, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Natick, Massachusetts, Atlanta, Georgia, Tysons Corner, Virginia, Garden City, New York, Charlotte, North Carolina, and two in Texas, Dallas, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas. There are also three outlet stores: one near its corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, one near its distribution center in West Chester, Ohio, and a third in Margate, Florida.
BoConcept is a Danish retail furniture chain with more than 265 stores in over 60 countries around the world. The first BoConcept Brand Store opened in Paris in 1993, but from 2006 and onwards, all furniture is sold through franchisees. BoConcept specializes in customizable modern furniture and accessories designed by international designers.
Furniture Today is a weekly American magazine about the furniture industry. It is part of the Gannett media holding company.
Groupe Habitat is an international chain of stores of British origin created by Sir Terence Conran in 1973, which specialises in the sale of furniture and contemporary decorative accessories. In September 2011 it was purchased by the French group Cafom SA distribution, who sold it to the industrialist Thierry Le Guénic in October 2020.
Trump Home is a brand of furniture and home items initially marketed by American businessman and now President of the United States Donald Trump and owned by Trump's company, The Trump Organization.
Arhaus is a United States retail chain that designs and sells home furnishings online and through its retail stores and catalogs. The company is headquartered in Boston Heights, Ohio.
Richard Mishaan is an interior designer based in New York City. He has worked on designs for Sony Corporation of America, the Shelborne Hotel in South Beach, Miami, Florida, the Hotel Tcherassi in Cartagena, Colombia, and the presidential suite for the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. Mishaan has also designed furniture for Bolier and Company, lighting for Urban Electric Co., and accessories for Asia Tides.
