Umbra will be celebrating its 30th Anniversary on August 15th- coinciding with the New York International Gift Fair. At the event, the Umbra You Design winner will be selected from among three finalists. Below are the design entries that will be vying for the title of Umbra’s You Design Most Creative:
 

I think the Cupcake [...]

We were honored to be included, for a second year, as design experts on MSN.com’s lifestyle feature on design trends for 2010, “What’s Hot (And Not) in Home Trends for 2010” written by Christopher Solomon. 

This slide (9 of 14) shows The Decorating Diva.com’s “Outdoor Living Room Design Trend 2010”.  The gorgeous outdoor living [...]

We’re absolutely thrilled to be included as design trend experts in The Times-Picayune’s digital magazine, NOLA.com’s “Ten trends for 2010 highlight the new home looks for the New Year” written by Molly Reid.

In December, we published our “Top 10 Design Trends for 2010” depicting the predominate design trends that we believe will [...]

A quick look at the recently opened Christian Louboutin boutique in the Miami Design District. More photos to come.
Christian Louboutin will be on the Design Miami 2009 “Design Talk” panel (with Mattia Bonetti and Jacques Grange) on Thursday, December 3rd (5:30PM to 6:30 PM EST) .

Design Miami 2009 opens to the public on December 2nd 2009. In the meantime, here’s a few of our favorite images and reports from last year’s amazing show. {Stay tuned for our Design Miami Coverage starting Dec 1, 2009).
Design Miami 2008 in one word: Impressive. A must see for the design aficionado. Not just for [...]

Award winning kitchen designer, Susan Serra CKD (see our in-depth design interview with Susan ) will be in New York City presenting to the New York Chapter of The International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA) on the usage of Social Media tools (twitter, blogs, Facebook, etc) with respect to the design industry.   Reservation details (though [...]

A BIG Thank you to all those listed below for sharing the love and spreading the word about The Decorating Diva.com.
Minneapolis Parade of Homes 2008 guidebook in which they profiled The Decorating Diva.com article “Top 10 Design Trends for 2008″. The Top 10 Design Trends article also appeared in My Bindi.com’s Lifestyle section.
Alltop.com, an online [...]

Join Natuzzi the leading producer of leather upholstery in celebrating the launch of their state-of-the-art website, and in the process enter yourself in the Natuzzi Editions’ $10,000 sweepstakes. You may want to do so quickly, as the promotion ends on December 20, 2008.
Enter the Natuzzi Editions’ $10,000 Sweepstakes.

Kmart plans to debut the much anticipated Jacklyn Smith furniture and home decor collection in the spring of 2009.
The Jacklyn Smith furniture line will be divided into a traditional collection called “Jacklyn Smith Tradtions” and “Jacklyn Smith Today”.
The “Traditional” collection will carry furniture and accessories with classic styling flavored with a touch of modernity. The [...]

This is a wonderful and affordable opportunity for product design students, recent grads and companies that have been in business for less than a year to showcase their design concepts, prototypes and/or finished decor products among an esteemed group of design companies and wholesalers at the 2009 NY International Gift Show’s Accent on Design event.
Deadline [...]