Superior Interiors with Kelly Hoppen | Channel 5
Posted: 25 November, 2011 Filed under: Companies, The Business Of Interior Design 1 Comment »
The vast majority of us in the Interior Design industry are not in the position to be able to host a TV show like Kelly Hoppen‘s ”Superior Interiors with Kelly Hoppen | Channel 5“. Such great publicity is obviously a client-winner.
From a business angle the programme is a good watch for interior designers. Of particular interest to me is how she deals with her clients. She is very good interpersonally. But, from a creative point of view, I especially like how she and the programme address situations where the client obviously does not agree with part of her design. Kelly Hoppen is very good at politely sticking by her guns and by the correctness, if you like, of what she is proposing. She is flexible enough to eventually succumb in but not without a gracious and often persuasive fight.
Of course this raises the perennial issue of whether or not ‘the client is king’ or ‘the client is always right’. However if the client is right and got their way, in such instances, then the client is happy! If the client is not right then at least that reinforces the correctness of the designer’s original scheme and the parts of it that were followed.
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Interior Designer? Did Your Web Site Just Pop Up In My Search?
Posted: 23 September, 2010 Filed under: Companies, home decor, interior, interior design, interior designer, interiordesign, interiors, modern homes, modern interiors, The Business Of Interior Design | Tags: ideas for designers, interior design, sales and marketing in interior design 1 Comment »Interior Designers increasingly understand the need to reach at least part of their target market through online search results.
With that in mind I have been looking through a few search terms that potential customers of interior designers might use. Unsurprisingly lots of interior designers popped up.
But one thing that I noticed was that VERY few of you were making use of video.
I know it takes a long time to do these things to a reasonable degree of quality but I would suggest it is worth it.
The reason being that Kelly Hoppen popped up again and again. She is obviously a renowned interior designer of the first degree BUT she also appreciates the importance of PR to her new business generation activities. The internet is not much more than PR … just the digital kind.
Why did Kelly appear? Well google doesn’t favour her over you, that much is true. Google does not think that she is better than you. However Google DOES put more emphasis sometimes on non textual information eg pictures and videos. So her video (above) popped up. When you go and check it out, YOUTUBE takes you through lots more of her videos. Before I knew it I had spent 15 minutes looking at her work and hearing her views.
Now if you go to your web site designer and ask them to talk to your ISP and get the stats for YOUR web site, you will probably find that the average visitor spends MUCH less than one minute on your site.
Food for thought.
Silk Velvet Production Problems
Posted: 8 July, 2010 Filed under: Companies | Tags: silk velvet, silk velvets, velvet, velvets Leave a comment »We have recently had to change most of our Velvet production to mills in Europe. Along with some other fabric companies, we have been experiencing quality issues with Chinese produced silk velvet. It’s probably only happening at one or two mills but it has been a big headache for us as we have had to return some significant orders due to less than perfect quality issues. And it’s sometimes hard to get the mills to accept returns that are of OK quality but not excellent.
Anyway, just a heads-up. Check where your silk velvet is being manufactured and double check the quality.
Carver 57 (via Yacht and Ship Photography)
Posted: 23 June, 2010 Filed under: Companies | Tags: faux leather Leave a comment »Some nice yacht images on this blog
via Yacht and Ship Photography
Hospital Designs (via ANNA HANSSON INTERIOR DESIGN’s BLOG)
Posted: 16 June, 2010 Filed under: Companies Leave a comment »Some nice commercial interiors.
via ANNA HANSSON INTERIOR DESIGN's BLOG
Hiring an Interior Design Professional? 7 Questions to Ask (via You Be the Interior Designer by Chris Mills Design)
Posted: 8 June, 2010 Filed under: Companies Leave a comment »Not a bad starter for 10 Chris. 7 good questions. Designers need to think how they will answer such questions from clients!
via You Be the Interior Designer by Chris Mills Design
The educated consumer – part 2 (via Keep it simple)
Posted: 7 June, 2010 Filed under: Companies Leave a comment »via Keep it simple
Read about the Design School on Vogue.com (via Kelly Hoppen’ Blog)
Posted: 3 June, 2010 Filed under: Companies 1 Comment »Another design school worth considering.
Interview With The Interior Designer: Barcelona vs Basingstoke, UK (via caerengracia.info)
Posted: 3 June, 2010 Filed under: Companies Leave a comment »Some interesting pan-european thoughts…
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Decorex International 2010
Posted: 17 September, 2010 | Author: Luxury Fabric, Inspired Design | Filed under: Companies, contemporary interiors, Fabric Tips, Market Comment, Press Releases, The Business Of Interior Design | Leave a comment »Beautiful logo isn’t it?
For those of you interested in fabric there are many fabric companies here. Not KOTHEA of course! but more of that another time.
Decorex is probably the magazine equivalent of House & Gardens. It competes with 100% Design and Focus (Chelsea Harbour Design Week). 100% Design is probably the equivalent of Elle Decoration.
Personally I’d go just because of the logo.
If you are keen to get new contacts in the world of fabric then there are some interesting companies here. Quite a few new ones as well as some you will have heard of before.
As with all exhibitions of this sort it is a good place to go to get an idea of ‘consensus trends’. Try to figure out where all the manufacturers are heading. Of course they could all be heading in entirely the wrong direction for your particular target market so go having your own opinion as well. Go with that opinion in mind and see if what you find validates it.
Remember as well that the exhibition stands are there to grab your attention. To drag you to talk to a sales rep. Just because the stand looks good and the fabrics on display look good in the exhibition it does not mean they will work in your schemes of course! Although obviously striking designs do sometimes work for some people.
We were tempted to show off some of our new Cashmere Throws and Cashmere blankets but we weren’t quite ready with the full range yet. And we’d like to think that the best quality throws will generate interest through word-of-mouth throughout the industry in the year ahead! (Hmmm)
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