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May 14, 2025

Are upscale furniture brands finally about to solve the ugly-recliner problem?

For decades, the recliner has been synonymous with the man-cave “Bubba” chair, a blight on designer projects everywhere. Now, thanks to technology and an aging population, top furniture brands are finally driving stylish motion-furniture breakthroughs.

mergers & acquisitions

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May 14, 2025

Lawson-Fenning sells majority stake to lifestyle brand

The Los Angeles furniture brand has entered into a deal with Stand Out For Good, a holding company for faith-based retailers Altar’d State, Arula, Tullabee and Vow’d.

fabric

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May 9, 2025

Griswold Textile Print, a long-running industry secret source, to shutter

The Rhode Island–based screen-printing facility—used by everyone from Brunschwig & Fils to Dorothy Draper & Company—is ending its nearly 90-year run at the end of the month.

industry insider

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May 8, 2025

A new online matchmaking site wants designers and clients to swipe right

Design industry marketing veteran Jackie Paulsen is launching Home Design Guild, a subscription membership service that matches designers with job leads based on client profile and location.

social media

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April 29, 2025

Does advertising on Instagram work for designers?

At a time when there’s so much that designers can’t control, boosted Instagram posts are an increasingly popular way to promote their work. Fred Nicolaus reports.

industry insider

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April 25, 2025

Form Kitchens lays off staff, halts operations

The San Francisco–based DTC cabinetry brand laid off a large portion of its staff en masse and stopped taking new orders four years after its founding by two former software engineers.

comings & goings

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April 24, 2025

The Expert’s new CEO wants to build a one-stop shop for designers

The Expert co-founder Leo Seigal has stepped down as CEO and has been replaced by Babylist alum Lee Ann Blake. BOH caught up with both to learn about the platform’s next chapter and its focus on e-commerce.

bankruptcy

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April 22, 2025

Burke Decor shuts down its site

Two years, a handful of lawsuits and hundreds of customer complaints later, the inevitable has happened: Burke Decor has shuttered its site.

tariffs

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April 14, 2025

American manufacturers look for opportunity amid tariff whiplash

Two weeks into the tariff news cycle, Fred Nicolaus talks to U.S. makers to take the temperature on the effects the administration’s trade policies are having on them.

television

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April 10, 2025

What The White Lotus and Severance tell us about design culture

In the aftermath of the latest seasons of the two hit shows, BOH’s Fred Nicolaus unpacks what makes each a draw for design junkies (and TV snobs)—and what they say about our culture at large.

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