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

19 hours ago | businessofhome.com | Fred Nicolaus

If anyone ever offers to take your picture while you’re in a recliner, say no. I learned this lesson the hard way, in the showroom of a high-end European furniture brand, stretched out in a sleek leather chair almost horizontal to the ground.
Lawson-Fenning sells majority stake to lifestyle brand

21 hours ago | businessofhome.com | Fred Nicolaus

Lawson-Fenning, the designer-favorite Los Angeles furniture brand, has sold a majority stake of its business to Stand Out For Good, the parent company of faith-based apparel retailers Altar’d State, Arula, Tullabee and Vow’d. The deal will see Stand Out For Good executive Tana Ward become Lawson-Fenning’s new president, and founders Glenn Lawson and Grant Fenning will remain in leadership roles.
Trump lowers China tariffs, ChatGPT adds shopping, and more

1 day ago | businessofhome.com | Caroline Bourque

This week in design, one Brooklyn designer went through 300 dozen eggs over the past six months, all in service of producing furnishings decorated with an eggshell lacquer—a design tradition that extends back more than a century. Stay in the know with our weekly roundup of headlines, launches, events, recommended reading and more. Business News The Trump administration moved to roll back tariffs on both China and the U.K. in recent days following negotiations with both countries.
Designers grapple with a flood of tariff information

2 days ago | businessofhome.com | Caroline Bourque

More than a month has passed since the Trump administration announced a new round of sweeping tariffs, setting off a wave of price increases across countless consumer goods. The chaos quickly carried over into the design world, with the initial frenzy fading into an atmosphere in which vendors’ approaches are subject to change at any time. Today’s news that the U.S. and China have lowered tariffs and begun hammering out a deal was cheered by Wall Street.
Griswold Textile Print, a long-running secret source, to shutter

5 days ago | businessofhome.com | Fred Nicolaus

Griswold Textile Print, an 88-year-old Rhode Island screen-printing facility, is closing its doors. In an email obtained by Business of Home, the long-running company recently informed customers that it is rushing to complete its open orders before May 30, after which it will shutter permanently. The note referred to “unforeseen circumstances,” but did not elaborate on the reason for the shutdown. Representatives for Griswold did not reply to requests for comment by press time.
Sprightly styles from Sanderson, Peter Dunham for Hudson Grace, and Ferrick Mason

5 days ago | businessofhome.com | Caroline Biggs

Product Preview is a weekly series spotlighting the latest and greatest debuts in the marketplace. Check back every Friday for what’s new and notable. We’re hot off the heels of Spring High Point Market, and vivacious new collections are launching left and right. From berry sprig–accented fabrics to sculptural solid marble coffee tables, here are some standouts from the latest round of releases.
Home retailers’ latest quarter is likely the calm before the catastrophe

6 days ago | businessofhome.com | Warren Shoulberg

In what will probably be the last financial quarter before the full effects of the Trump tariffs start to hit top and bottom lines, several big public furniture retailers are reporting results that show modest improvements. While nothing to cheer wildly about, they do show the home business could be getting better … or at least was heading in that direction until the tariffs hit the fan.
This Los Angeles maker designs pieces that keep people engaged

6 days ago | businessofhome.com | Caroline Biggs

Jordana Maisie takes a bifocal approach to design. The Los Angeles–based founder of Jordana Maisie Design Workshop (JMDW) employs a mix of time-honored architectural techniques and experimental methods when crafting her contemporary pieces. “We are interested in questioning accepted relationships, inspiring awe and intrigue, and keeping people engaged in [spite of] an increasingly numbing and saturated environment,” she tells Business of Home.
A new online matchmaking site wants designers and clients to swipe right

6 days ago | businessofhome.com | Fred Nicolaus

A good client is hard to find—precisely the problem Jackie Paulsen is trying to solve. This month Paulsen, the former chief marketing officer of Summer Classics, is launching an online platform that looks to pair homeowners with designers. The site, Home Design Guild, takes a thorough approach to vetting both sides, a process its founder says will feel more like being set up by a veteran matchmaker than mindlessly scrolling.
How Studio DB’s founders took their firm out of its startup phase

1 week ago | businessofhome.com | Caroline Bourque

Britt and Damian Zunino trace the origins of their design partnership back to an unlikely place: a pet store called The Salty Paw. At the time, Damian was several years out of architecture school and working for a Manhattan-based firm that converted former fish-market buildings in the South Street Seaport to residential spaces. Britt had taken a more winding path, from competing as a snowboarder to the fashion industry in New York, where she realized she had a knack for retail design.