Markets – The Chaise Lounge: Interior Design Podcast

S24 E3 – High Point Market Fall 2019: Everything* Designers Should Know

1:09:06

On the final episode of the Chaise Lounge’s coverage of High Point Market, Nick hosts a panel with Vicky Serany of Southern Studio, Adrian Bugg and Brandeis Short of Pillar and Peacock, Anna Maria Mannarino of Mannarino Designs and Michael Mitchell of Mitchell Hill.

These designers have seen it all and been through it all, and, in this panel, they talk about the things they had to learn on the job, whether or not they went to school for interior design where somebody should have taught them about what they would need to do in the industry.

As always, if you like what you hear from these designers, check them out on their Instagrams: @southernstudio, @pillar_and_peacock, @mannarinoannamaria and @mitchellhillcharleston.

Chaise Lounge Updates

Welcome to the week of High Point content! Stay in the loop for more on our Instagram and Facebook pages and keep an eye our for our upcoming market events!

Resources

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Upcoming Markets

KBIS – Jan 21 – Jan 23, 2020

Atlanta Market – Jan 14 – Jan 21, 2020

Wrap Up

If you would like to hear more episodes, please visit us on iTunes, Spotify or your favorite podcasting app! We’d love it if you post a review, you may even hear your review read live on our next podcast. Also, find The Chaise Lounge on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. With that said, keep dreaming big, and keep designing a great design business. See ya!

S24 E2 – High Point Market Fall 2019: Nick in the Lounge and Getting Into Print

1:31:14

Today, High Point continues with a conversation in Nick’s Lounge Away From Home with Stacy Garcia, Sandra Funk and Laura Thurman. They talk about how they manage their time and give themselves permission to succeed in interior design whether they run one business with one brand or four.
In the second half, Nick and communications guru Amy Flurry sit with a panel of designers that includes Bria Hammel, Corey Damen Jenkins and Darla Powell for a conversation about how design entrepreneurs can generate the attention they need to grow their businesses.

S24 E1 – High Point Market Fall 2019: Retail Isn’t Dead and Nick in the Lounge

01:12:42

The Chaise Lounge is back from High Point Market. This week brings with it two episodes packed with everything Nick got up to at High Point Market. The episode is one part Nick’s panel featuring successful independent retailers, Retail Isn’t Dead, and one part classic Nick in the Lounge.

Nick’s guests on the panel include Sarah Willett of Patina Vie, Mary Liz Curtin of Leon & Lulu, Anne Rainey Rokhar of Trouvaille Home and the SnobShop, and Blair Hamaty from Setting the Space. Each of these business owners work in different parts of the industry and country, but they all have something to say about how running a store works for them.

In the second portion of this episode, Nick kicks it in the Universal Designers’ Lounge with Hilary Farr from “Love It or List It,” home stager Bobbie McGrath of Successful Staging, DMc ID’s Drew McGukin, and furniture designer Regan Hayes.

"If you buy an 18th century chair, we've already stripped it down, made sure it's completely solid, we've reupholstered it, and made it so it can go straight into your house."

Anne Rainey Rokhar Tweet

Chaise Lounge Updates

Welcome to the week of High Point content! Stay in the loop for more on our Instagram and Facebook pages and keep an eye our for our upcoming market events!

Resources

See what our sponsors can do for you.

Upcoming Markets

BDNY – Nov. 10 – 11, 2019

KBIS – Jan 21 – 23, 2019

Wrap Up

S23 E20 – Nick at the International Association of Home Staging Professionals Conference

37:15

This week brings with it a two-part episode of the Chaise Lounge with guests Nick spoke to at the International Association of Home Staging Professionals Conference in Nashville. Today, three guests join Nick in the lounge:
Kelly Moore, the vice president of Karastan a luxury machine-made rug brand. In addition to wool, he tells Nick, Karastan weaves rugs from fibers made out of recycled water bottles and corn.
Sanja Radovanovic, the president of IAHSP Europe and a Rome-based home stager. She offers perspective about the differences between the markets European home staging professionals serve compared to American markets.
Young Kim is the CEO of Washington D.C.- based Staged Interior which he founded with his wife in 2006. Kim talks about the ways Staged Interior markets and specifically the importance of digital and social media marketing.

Visit each of the guests online at Karstan.com, IAHSPEurope.com and StagedInterior.com

S23 E18 – Networking and Design Tradition with Keia McSwain

43:15

On the first Chaise Lounge of October, Keia McSwain joins Nick in the studio. McSwain is the president of the Black Interior Designers Network and principal of Kimberly + Cameron Interiors.

Both of these roles are responsibilities she took up after her boss and mentor Kimberly Ward died of cancer in August 2017. Today, McSwain designs and manages projects all over the country with Kimberly + Cameron and works to build an expanding network of black members of the design community to pool and share resources.

The Black Interior Designers Network currently holds one conference per year but may expand to more as the network grows. Be on the look out for events and news at the organization’s news page and on its Instagram @blackinteriordesignersnetwork.

For Keia McSwain’s designs, follow the firm’s Instagram @kimberlycameroninteriors.

"The man that knows everything knows that he knows nothing"

Keia McSwain on Socratic ingnorance Tweet

Chaise Lounge Updates

We’ll be covering Fall High Point Market 2019! Stay in the loop on our Instagram and Facebook pages and keep an eye our for our upcoming market events!

Our new podcast Coast to Coast Design is live! Give it a listen to learn about just how many ways there are to run a design business.

Resources

See what our sponsors can do for you.

Upcoming Markets

High Point Market – Oct. 19-23 2019

BDNY – Nov. 10-11, 2019

Wrap Up

S23 E17 – Mid-Life Breakthrough with Darla Powell

38:52

Today’s Chaise Lounge showcases Miami designer Darla Powell of Darla Powell Interiors. Powell is a former Miami cop of 19 years who decided to follow her childhood compulsion to redecorate into an interior design career in 2017.