Guest Interview on Custom-made Decorative Hardware: Only in America
Mark Scott, president of Longleaf Collection, a North Carolina door hardware manufacturer, discusses what separates his U.S.-made goods from foreign-made competitive products.
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Critical Tools for Staying in Front of Your Customers
Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Staying in front of your customers by capturing their interest and keeping them engaged should be at the top of your list. The path to achieving this, however, is often obscured.
What Does Luxury Really Mean in Design?
People today are about making their own statements, not with someone else’s brand. Just witness in any industry the rise of the independent company who spring up out of nowhere, threatening the share of the major brands in that space.
Hitting the Affluent Market Target via Research Data
In order to reach the affluent customer the MarketNet team worked with the American Affluent Research Center (AARC), a private research organization, as a resource to understand the affluent customer. It may be a good fit for your company, especially if you are targeting affluent consumers.
CMD Webinar Summary: How Sustainable is the Construction Economic Recovery?
Have you been concerned with growth and trends in the construction industry since the recession, and are you eager to hear the forecast for 2016 and beyond? Here is our summary of the Economic Outlook Webcast, Construction 2016: How Sustainable is the Economic Recovery.
The Geberit Concealed Tank Toilet System: Blending Form and Function
Space: when it comes to bathroom design, it’s easy to have too little, and rare to have enough. Geberit’s concealed tank toilet system provides a sleek and innovative solution to the age-old problem of remodeling with limited space.
Universal Design: A Look at the TOTO Washlet
The Washlet has become a must-have item in Japan and around the world, with over 40 million Washlets sold since 1980. Clearly, homeowners are responding to something about this product.
Put Yourself in Your Client’s Shoes
There’s nothing like meeting the needs of a client by designing what they really need – which is not always what they want.
We’re woefully under prepared for our increasingly aging population
That’s what Los Angeles architect John Dutton worries about, and that that the coming demographic shift could catch the U.S. napping. In an interview in DWELL magazine, Dutton said the models for housing are completely inadequate in design and temperament for the aging population.