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A designer's guide to fall markets across the country

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What do you do when clients price-shop you?

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It’s all in the fabric family: A Philadelphia merger that goes back 100 years

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Ryan Korban: Designers need to think more like brands

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Is your new favorite magazine published by a brand?

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I feel pigeonholed in residential work. How do I branch out?

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Homepolish has collapsed. Its designers are reeling

After a failed search for a white-knight investor, last week Homepolish CEO Noa Santos told his remaining designers that the company will shut down operations—without paying them. In the aftermath of the collapse, designers are reeling.

RH is on top of the world

Following positive earnings news—adjusted earnings came in at $3.20 a share, up 59 percent from last year, on revenue of nearly $707 million for the quarter—and a stock price that had nearly doubled in the past three months, RH chairman and CEO Gary Friedman was ebullient as he treated the team of Wall Street analysts who cover the company to a post-earnings conference call that spanned nearly two hours.

This won’t be your mother’s Bed Bath & Beyond

With a change in management and merchandising direction, the home industry’s legendary big-box retailer is about to become a very different retail animal. Market Watch columnist Warren Shoulberg has the inside scoop.

Is your new favorite magazine published by a brand?

A rising number of companies in the home industry are publishing branded magazines as an authentic marketing move. BOH consulted with some of the brands producing these glossies to find out what drives their strategy.

What’s going on with Homepolish?

By outward appearances, it’s business as usual at Homepolish. Behind the scenes, the company is in the thick of a tumultuous period: Since late June, the majority of employees have been on unpaid leave, the company has vacated its 12,000-square-foot office, and business is being slow-walked. We talked to founder and CEO Noa Santos, as well as former and current employees, to find out what went wrong—and what’s next.

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RH is on top of the world

business advice

I feel pigeonholed in residential work. How do I branch out?

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The key to reimagining retail? Leveraging existing brick-and-mortar spaces

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Discover ADAC, GA, September 25

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All About Collaboration: When Markets Collide

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IN PRINT

Kravet’s new showroom balances high-tech with high-touch

For its new Kravet Workspace, designed with an on-the-move clientele in mind, the fabric company delivers a fresh twist on an old-school model.

What is sustainable furniture anyway? Why Susan Inglis is trying to make you care

For more than a decade, Susan Inglis has steadily and tirelessly beat the drum for green practices in the home furnishings industry.

Could you go a day without producing any trash? Heath’s pursuit of zero-waste manufacturing

Three years ago, Heath Ceramics embarked on a radical company-wide journey to eradicate waste. BOH caught up with the California-based brand to find out how, why—and how much it (didn’t) cost.

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