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By None on 1/22/2021 Retail Profile: Kensington A discussion of furniture design trends that also examines the relationship between form, function and what consumers will be looking for to meet their home furnishings needs as we exit the pandemic.   For this installment of the Design & Designer series, Furniture World interviewed SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) professor Sheila Edwards and Fred Spector, SCAD’s Associate Chair of Furniture Design. Spector is also the founder o...

Photography by Raquel Langworthy Designer Kelli Suozzo of Bowerbird Co. says her 6-year-old client in the coastal suburbs of New Jersey had some very specific requests for her bedroom: Spider-Man, skateboarding, and basketball. When you peek into the finished color-blocked space, however, there’s a curvy Blu Dot desk chair, a leather nightstand, and colorful geometric curtains—but not a superhero or Spalding in sight. On the other hand, her 9-year-old sister asked for a “pretty but not too girly” room influenced by their family trips to the Bahamas. (A picture of baby goat...

This punk rock–meets–wabi-sabi Reynoldstown townhouse has got game How do you fit a couple's love for Japanese and Scandinavian design, street art, punk rock, and gaming (both the video and board varieties) in a three-story townhouse? Like this. 290 “There’s so much great street art in the neighborhood, and we wanted to bring that into the house,” says homeowner Niko Rigney. Paintings by local muralist BlackCatTips punctuate the wall, featuring a half-line of Farrow & Ball “Railings” to bring down the scale of the large living room. The rug is by Annie Selke...

DC Apartment Buildings Are Giving Away Pelotons, TVs, Furniture, and Other Swag to Lure New Residents Covid-19 has led to cheaper rent, higher vacancies—and a lot more perks. Luxury apartment buildings, with their rooftop pools, fitness centers full of Pelotons, and tricked-out dog washing stations, have lost some of their luster during the coronavirus pandemic. After all, what good are fancy communal amenities when you can’t, you know, commune? In its 2020 third-quarter report, Delta Associates, an authority on local commercial real estate, found that DC rents in these types of high-end...