Quality, diversity, higher standards and globalization are the top design trends driving industry professionals according to international design legend Mary Gilliatt of Decor&You who was a featured speaker at the July World Market Center in the Las Vegas, the largest gathering of design professionals from around the world.
Decor&You, one of the nation’s largest interior design franchises, hosted its annual conference celebrating ten years in business with more than 100 franchisees from North America in attendance. Mary Gilliatt, a journalist, author of 48 books on design, and a septuagenarian who circles the globe several times each year for research offers insights on the features of design trends currently influencing manufacturers and suppliers. Here are Gilliatt’s top four observations on global design trends:
1. Universal Excellence The trend that defines global design today is universal excellence. The US has the lead in so many things, followed in design at least, by Italy, Japan and sometimes the UK. Now good designs in furniture, fabrics and interiors are bursting out from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, Africa, Brazil, China, The Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain.
Global Design Trends Set By Decor And You
August 21, 2008 by Mark | 0 Comments
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