A Very Busy Fall, we announce our upcoming Rising Stars of Design on Nov 19 and more good news from the interior design industry...

In the throes of a busy Fall season, 

we have important news, 

recap photos and upcoming events to share...

the design industry is bustling with activity this season with a plethora of events and celebrations.  We can count numerous programs, talks and cocktail gatherings where IFDA chapter friends are out and about showing their new collections, gleaning advice and sources and celebrating together.  

With Highpoint Furniture Market just days away, we are happy to note two IFDA NY chapter members' involvement at Market:

IFDA NY's VP Communication
interior designer/blogger TamaraStephenson 
will take Highpoint's Instagram keys on Sunday, October 18th
Follow along all day with musings from Tamara as she spots quality, unique and stellar design at Highpoint

IFDA NY Member Nancy Fire, HGTV Home Design Director will take over the Highpoint Furniture Market's Instagram keys 
Saturday, October 17
Nancy offers Suite Spot Tours 
Sunday, October 18th from 9-10am
 Register for Nancy's Tour

And, don't miss Nancy's seminar: 

Let’s Take it Outside:

Hot Outdoor Trends & New Products

Saturday, Oct. 17 2-3pm, Suites at Market Square

Top Floor Seminar Room (SAMS 1-1014)

More important news from the IFDA NY Chapter-- 
please mark your calendar for our annual 
IFDA Rising Stars celebration 
where we name and award talents in the industry. 

2014 Rising Stars with Rose Hittmeyer

IFDA Rising Stars
Thursday, November 19th at 5:30pm
At Lapicida
with MC Justin Shaulis Inc.
Lenzing Fibers Event Patron
More soon about this exciting celebration of rising talents in design soon.  

And, please take a look at some of our favorite meet ups so far this fall...

What's New What's Next at the New York Design Center

a celebration of design on all floors of this design building with book signings, educational talks and new launches.  

photo--Curate Kravet team, Charlotte Moss new book, IFDA ladies, Kim Kravante's new casegood furniture Marbella at the Bright Group, Christopher Guy event with NYC&G with Bergdorf Goodman, Libby Langdon advising on the business of design

Kips Bay Annual Boathouse Bash

kicking off fall with this sophisticated sit down dinner, dance and silent auction fundraiser for this important neighborhood program

photo--with IFDA member James Rixner and his table of guests

 during tabletop week, the Fifth Annual Art of the Table at Bilotta Kitchen and sponsored by Traditional Home magazine

with kitchen vignettes by five talented designers--Byron James, Jen Goering and Stephen Czeck, Patrick Hamilton, Timothy Button & Glenn Gissler.  Year after year this event proves to be one of  NYC's fall highlights, taking place in this beautiful kitchen showroom in the A&D Building.  Bilotta Kitchen paired up again this year with Traditional Home to hand pick five of the industry's biggest talents.  Each design team stylized one the showroom kitchens showing the world of possibilities in kitchen design. 

3 Fabulous Events where IFDA NY members were out & about in the Big Apple!

 Happy Holidays 

from the IFDA NY Chapter!

With the fall season coming to a quick close and the busy new year ahead, let's look back at some of the ways the IFDA NY Chapter members continue to keep their fingers on the pulse of design in New York City.  We recently showed you a sample of industry events our members participated in, and now let's highlight three more where IFDA NY chapter members were in attendance...

photo credit Julie Schuster (above)

1. Traditional Home magazine 

paired with the New York Design Center for 

"Our Favorite Things"

We are happy to note that former 

IFDA NY Rising Stars were a part of this design celebration at 200 Lexington Avenue.

former IFDA Rising Stars Honoree Ron Marvin (left);

former IFDA NY Rising Star honoree

duo design team from Tilton & Fenwick (right)

chose their favorite finds for the crowd!

Lois DelNegro of Global Views and

Nicki Clendening of Scout Design, (another former 

Rising Stars Honoree) were in attendance.

2. We also stopped into the annual Art of The Table sponsored by Bilotta Kitchen, Traditional Home and Lenox to check out kitchen displays stylized by four area interior designers utilizing Lenox patterns on the tables.

(above) IFDA members Barbara Haberman, Lisa McMahon and Tamara Stephenson spent time in Tamara's kitchen where she showed DKNY's everyday patterns for Lenox.  

Tamara's "Fall Bounty" table & kitchen. 
Interior designers who participated in this year's Art of The Table include Robert Passal, James Rixner, 
David Scott & Tamara Stephenson.

3. We kicked off the fall season with an important evening generously hosted by Axor Showroom to thank those involved in last spring's charity event, Take A Seat.  Craftily called Take A Bow the evening was a celebration where we also presented a check to Habitat for Humanity NY.  These were proceeds raised during last spring's chair charity auction hosted at Room and Board showroom with media sponsor NYC&G magazine.  We also Skyped with other chapters around the nation as they prepared to host their own Take A Seat auction.  Additionally, during Take A Bow we raised more funds for Habitat NYC with a lively Chinese auction.  

Later in the fall, we planned and celebrated a well attended and successful Rising Stars event where we honored talents in the industry, and generously hosted at the Kravet showroom in the D&D building.  This evening is worthy of it's very own story, so please stop back for a recap soon. 

this photo captures a fun moment on Instragram during our

IFDA NY Rising Stars celebration at our Step and Repeat!  We are happy to announce that we have our IFDA NY Instagram up and running, so please check us out on Instragram to keep up with where we are next.  

We wish you a 

healthy & happy holiday season!