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Recent News from The Inspired Home Show!
Making Homes Warm and Cozy
Whether it involves well-loved items like candles or incorporating the recent trend of textured walls, shoppers are sure to appreciate inspiration.
Warming Up to Hot Beverages
Home and housewares retailers can help encourage shoppers with in-store tastings, clever recipes and tips for trying out new products or techniques.
At-Home Holiday Baking: Joyful Ideas for Retailers
The holiday season is steeped in nostalgia, drawing people to baked goods and baking tools that evoke memories of childhood and Grandma.
Connect FALL, IHA’s Virtual Industry Event, Features Sessions on Shifting Lifestyle Trends, Critical Business Developments
Connect FALL, an IHA virtual event, is set for Oct. 11-13 with exclusive, in-depth content designed to bring the housewares industry together around critical industry education.
Exhibitors Return to The Inspired Home Show 2023 After COVID Break in 2022
Top housewares brands that were unable to participate in The Inspired Home Show 2022 are committing to returning to the Show in 2023.
QVC Joins Forces with Prominent Home Brands to Support Feeding America Through the Second Annual Living for Giving Shopping Event
QVC and the Housewares Charity Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the home and housewares industry, have joined forces once again to present Living for Giving, a cross-platform shopping event to support Feeding America.
Housewares Homecoming Brings CHESS, IBC Global Forum and Credit Group Meeting Together in One Event
Two critical International Housewares Association educational summits, CHESS: Chief Housewares Executive SuperSession and the International Business Council’s Global Forum, will be held in-person this fall along with a new event by the recently formed Housewares Credit Group (HCG) under the banner Housewares Homecoming.
Heart of the Community
Jamie Butler went from running a kitchen and homewares business from a retro-inspired truck that became a well-known attraction at farmers’ markets, to owning a much-loved store that has community firmly in its heart.
Wings of Success
gia Global Honoree—Westwing Brasil—initially made its name and garnered its millions of followers online. Today however, its physical stores are proving to be just as popular, and as wonderfully creative, as its online campaigns and editorially led content.
Immersion in the Weekend Life
The Argentinian gia Global Honoree—PAUL French Gallery—is a hidden sanctuary where relaxed weekend...
Embracing New Fine Living
Some might assume that an ultra-modern store selling tech-based brands in a steel and stucco...
The French Connection
The French Global Honoree in the 2021-2022 gia awards—La Maison Pernoise—is housed in a charming stone barn in the South of France. The business was born from passion, imagination and the creative drive of a woman who knows that dreams and wishes can be turned into reality.