Interior Design News

STYLE IT: It's truly amazing what a good eye for style can do for a good room. From Emily Henderson: "What I wouldn't do for this bright and airy family room, kids included.

An important new women's business center in Afghanistan opened at the end of May. It is aimed at educating entrepreneurs who want to start their own businesses in the war-torn country.

Martyn Lawrence Bullard is one of the most famous interior designers in the world.

Home furnishings manufacturer Groovystuff launched an online dealer portal that provides instant access to product details and pricing as well as exclusive discounts.

VISION FOR THE FUTURE: Alana Inglis, a fourth year interior architecture student at Victoria University, is inspired by her fellow students' ideas for urban design and landscape development in Lower Hutt.

This week's Cine-files is by Martyn Conterio. If there's a cinema you'd like to tell us about for a future Cine-files, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk.

An elegant and generous powerhouse in hospitality design for four decades, Interior Design Hall of Fame member Trisha Wilson is known the world round for her forward-thinking take on interior architecture.

Eric Engstrom, founder of EDG Interior Architecture + Design died June 15 after a long battle with cancer.

RAK Ceramics continues to introduce value-added services that position the Company at the forefront of technological advancement in the field, evident with the launch of the new RAK Smart Design application.

CYRILLA, a new luxury home and lifestyle boutique and atelier, opens in the South Norwalk Design District, offering a sophisticated and bold new traditionalist style for home decor.

Provincetown is known for its guest houses that are old captain's mansions restored to glory by ambitious entrepreneurs, who have invested their lives to pampering their clients.

The newly opened Rose Restaurant in Teaneck offers traditional Persian specialties that feature fresh meats and seafood accented with unusual ingredients such as pomegranates, dried lemons, and sweet and sour cherries.

Like many great business ideas, Cake Ambition started as a hobby. Owner and cake maker Jessica Rose started out making baked goods for her friends, co-workers and family.

Va de bye: If you wondered what had become of Shane McAnelly, the Oakley native who was exec chef at Walnut Creek's much loved Va de Vi up until December, here's an update.

The McAllen Public Library, TX, main library, which opened in late 2011 in a former Wal-Mart, garnered many awards, including the coveted American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Interior Architecture.

A BEAUTIFUL garden in Cutnall Green will be opening to the public at the end of this month, as part of the National Gardens Scheme.

The show, which will be aired at 8pm on Wednesday, June 19, jets unsuspecting Brits to Los Angeles for a surprise makeover, while secretly giving their home the Hollywood treatment.

Every so often, you meet someone who seems to operate on a different plane, like 35-year-old designer Oki Sato.

Ed Pavlick of Milwaukee reads a magazine from the dwindling selection on t he Milwaukee Public Library's East Library shelves last week.

Newnan city officials are inviting the public to the dedication and ribbon cutting of the meeting and events facility, located at 1515 Lower Fayetteville Road adjacent to the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts.