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March 13, 2024
In Business of Home’s series Shop Talk, we chat with owners of home furnishings stores across the country to hear about their hard-won lessons and challenges, big and small. This week, we spoke with Katrina Hernandez, who has an eponymous design firm and retail store in Santa Monica, California.
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February 28, 2024
At the beginning of the pandemic, after nearly three decades in business, fabric and wallcovering designer Alessandra Branca of Casa Branca was going to close up shop. She was reinvigorated and now is operating two new stores in the Palm Beach area. In this week’s installment of Shop Talk, her son Andrew Uihlein, the president of the company, dishes on the new locations and how his mother got her spark back.
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January 31, 2024
After more than three decades working as a designer, Susan Jamieson opened Bridget Beari, a retail shop in Richmond, Virginia, to sell her own paint line. Now, she’s exploring product development and teaching customers to embrace a mix of contemporary and traditional furnishings on social media.
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December 21, 2023
As a result of chasing their passions, Baltimore-based Christopher Heller and Ryan Sirois Heller now operate a sprawling network of creative businesses, including a branding studio, a garden center, a wellness space and two retail outposts. They tell us how they made their off-the-beaten-path stores into experiences, why they never want to pay rent again, and why they have no intention of slowing down.
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December 6, 2023
Lucy Small, the owner of Blue Ridge, Georgia’s State & Season, breaks down the frustrating logistics of getting product delivered up a mountain, how she convinces clients to go for the high-end and why she’ll only carry the best of the best.
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