by Design vendors win display awards at the High Point market.

The biggest events in the furniture and home furnishings industry are the Spring and Fall shows in High Point, NC.  An annual award is given for excellence in showroom design which honors the most creative and innovative exhibitors.  We’re very proud, here at by Design to point out that several of the nominees (and both of the top winners!) are vendors of ours that we love to work with.  Here are the top award winners and the remarks that the judges made about them:

Best of Market:

Four Hands

Four Hands Display

“Known for providing an eclectic mix of products collected from different countries, expressing the aesthetic ideals of numerous cultures, Four Hands has established itself as trend-setting leader in the home furnishings industry.  Judged as the very best at the Fall 2009 High Point Market, this showroom… makes exceptional use of color, lighting and textures to create a visually rich and emotionally engaging experience.”

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Back to the future with UltraSuede?

In the constant search for the new and better, furniture manufactures are looking again at ultra suede.  Ultra suede (used as a generic term for a type of fabric) became very popular some years ago and then faded from favor.  There were many reasons, but chief among them were the proliferation of cheap products calling [...]

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Design Happens Blog loves Candice Olson at High Point Market

Design blog Design Happens loves Candice Olson and wrote about her collection at the recent High Point market.  Of course, by Design is the only source in Des Moines for the Candice Olson collection of furniture styles and fabrics.  If you’re a Candice fan, be sure to stop into our store and ask one of [...]

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What’s hot for Fall?

Fall ‘09 Design Trends
At by Design we’re fascinated and excited by the color and design trends that are constantly reshaping our designs and homes.  We hunt for news that we think is relevant to our customers in Des Moines and Central Iowa.  We would like to occasionally provide you with outside points of view about [...]

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Candice Olson to Judge on HGTV’s Design Star

Hopeful designers compete for the ultimate prize: their own design show on HGTV.
HGTV Design Star is back for a fourth season beginning Sunday, July 19, at 9 p.m. with 11 finalists who have tremendous incentive: the winner gets their own show on HGTV.  And, judging for the first time is Candice Olson, designer of some [...]

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New from Spring Market at High Point

In the home furnishings and interior design world the High Point, North Carolina market is widely acknowledged to be the largest, most important event of the year. And it happens twice a year!
Each April and October…

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Ikat Designs

Specialty fabrics often add the flair or punch to a fabulous room design.  At the recent fall High Point market those specialty fabrics frequently came from ikats and susanis.
The word “ikat” means “to bind.”  It is a very ancient way of creating designs in fabric by resist-dyeing (a bit like tie-dying) the threads before the [...]

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Susani Textiles

Susani (sometimes spelled “suzani”) is the word for “needle” in Farsi, and the large embroidered dowry textiles of Turkic groups are so named because of the many hundreds of hours of needlwork required to produce them. Susani textiles originate in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and other countries where Uzbeks and Tadzhiks share similar textile [...]

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