This week in design, the latest amenity among Miami’s luxury homeowners is access by air and sea—via high-rise helipads and superyacht-sized boat docks. Stay in the know with our weekly roundup of headlines, launches, recommended reading and more.

Business News
Mississippi furniture manufacturer Southern Motion has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of Mississippi, Furniture Today reports. In the filing, the company cited “financial and operational headwinds” for the need to restructure, particularly amid a dampened retail furniture market and an increase in the costs of manufacturing due to tariffs, rising fuel prices and elevated container rates. It also proposed $5 million in debtor-in-possession financing in order to ensure that vendors, suppliers and other business partners will be paid in full for goods and services during the reorganization process.

A number of the country’s biggest companies raised their financial outlooks for the year in recent days, thanks to strong sales. As The Wall Street Journal reports, per-share earnings shot up 53 percent year over year in the second quarter among S&P 500 companies, with sales up nearly 16 percent. The rise was driven in part by investment gains from Amazon and Alphabet—and yet, even excluding those metrics, the S&P 500’s earnings still saw their biggest increase since fall 2021, aided by tariff refunds, the continuing AI boom and consumer resilience.

Home Depot subsidiary Construction Resources has acquired fellow distributor Fuse Specialty Appliances & Plumbing. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based in South Florida, Fuse operates seven kitchen-and-bath showrooms in the region, offering a range of luxury appliance and plumbing productions to professional builders and interior designers. Following the purchase, the company’s current leadership team will remain in their roles.

Weiss Furniture in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, is going out of business after 107 years in operation. The local retailer was established by father-and-son team Joseph and Hymen Weiss in 1919 and later passed into the hands of Hymen Weiss’s brother-in-law, William Dunhoff, whose son Richard acquired full ownership in 2007. Now, as Richard’s widow, Dalia Dunhoff, prepares to retire, the store’s final liquidation will be facilitated by Planned Furniture Promotions, and the going-out-of-business sale opens to the public on September 3.

Following a devastating fire at its factory in South Carolina last week, mattress brand Mlily has closed the facility and terminated its 254 employees, Home Textiles Today reports. According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filing and accompanying letter sent by the brand’s human resources manager, the fire left Mlily’s factory unable to support operations, resulting in an anticipated closure of at least six months. While the layoffs are expected to be permanent, the company has also stated that it plans to explore options for rebuilding. In the meantime, Mlily will work with the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce to assist those impacted by the closure.

Launches and Collaborations
Ikea has teamed up with Xbox to debut a nine-piece assortment of gaming furniture. The Yxstaby collection includes an array of playful pieces, including a rolling gaming TV stand, a thumbstick-inspired stool, a D-pad-shaped cushion and various storage solutions.

Sur La Table has announced the debut of a new platform called Second Servings, through which customers can buy and sell secondhand versions of its branded products, Fast Company reports. The site also offers items from other brands that the company carries, including All-Clad and Le Creuset, with most offered at a 50 to 70 percent discount.

Selling Sunset star Amanza Smith has teamed up with Canadian brand Transformer Table to create “A Seat at Her Table,” a five-day pop-up installation at SoHo’s 55 Thompson Street during New York Fashion Week this month. The exhibition will feature six rooms designed to depict different chapters in the designer and real estate agent’s life, each anchored by one of the brand’s tables and surrounded by Smith’s original artworks.

Showhouses
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas has announced the location of this year’s event, which will return to the 2999 Turtle Creek Boulevard estate for the third consecutive year. The showhouse’s seventh edition will transform the 25,000-square-foot French Renaissance–style property—which is located adjacent to Turtle Creek’s iconic Rosewood Mansion—with a new twist on the home’s floor plan and access to previously unseen spaces. The event will open to the public for general admission for three weeks starting November 14, with proceeds to benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, as well as local nonprofits Dwell With Dignity and The Crystal Charity Ball. For more information, click here.

Recommended Reading
In a few short decades, the art market has undergone an unprecedented boom, with roughly $1 trillion of art expected to change hands over the next 10 years. For Bloomberg, Felix Salmon dives into what to expect from the “great art transfer,” during which the descendants of boomers inherit their massive collections in the years to come.

The rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax on July 1—which applies to second homes in New York valued at $5 million or more—has attracted a flurry of controversy and a spate of lawsuits. Amid all of the controversy, a satirical website called Aura Investments—a fake company that offered second-home owners in Manhattan and Brooklyn the chance to lend their apartments to the city’s artists, dodging the tax and gaining major “aura” points in the process—gained a surprising amount of traction from would-be renters and homeowners alike. For Curbed, Matthew Sedacca speaks with Madison Walser, the comedian behind the website, about the prank’s evolution into a potential housing solution.

Call for Entries
The National Kitchen & Bath Association is now accepting entries for the 2027 NKBA Design Competition. In addition to the Best Overall kitchen and bath awards, the contest invites designers to submit their best projects in a variety of new divisions this year: Laundry Room, Smart Home Integration, Kitchen Wellness Integration, Bath Wellness Integration, and Product Integration for Kitchen or Bath. This year, the NKBA tapped Business of Home as the competition’s official media partner—with editor in chief Kaitlin Petersen to serve on the panel of judges. To submit a project before the October 4 deadline, click here.