Dallas Design Week Gathers the City’s Best Talents for Networking and Inspiration
This week, interior designers converged on the Dallas Market Center for the second-annual Dallas Design Week, a series of events, panels, conversations, showcases, and more, all centered around the theme of “Design Intelligence.”
Dallas Design Week kicked off on Monday, April 15, with a tour through the Interior Home + Design Center with Dallas Market Center’s vice president of design, Michael Bauer, and award-winning designer Kristi Hopper. Over the next few days, attendees learned about everything from photography tips to light theory and innovation, and even how design can influence health.
For Dallas-based designer Denise McGaha, Dallas Design Week was an opportunity to expand her business and share her lighting and furnishing products at Currey & Co. during a coffee and dessert reception on April 18. “Dallas Design Week is a wonderful opportunity for me to meet designers who I don’t know," she says. "I can share with them the product designs we have available, and I love connecting with designers and manufacturers in Dallas.”
On Tuesday, a fun addition to the design summit, the Headshot Studio, sold out incredibly fast. For designers setting up websites and social media pages, 10 minutes with a professional photographer to get that perfectly styled shot could make all the difference in bringing in more clients. The Headshot Studio provided each visitor with three edited images.
Dallas Design Week’s best feature may be its balance between traditional and contemporary design, according to internationally recognized designer and the vice president of hospitality at Baskervill, Gary Inman.
“Dallas is a vibrant, design-savvy city that feels confident and willing to explore trend-forward designs, while retaining deep cultural traditions,” Inman says. “I admire the blended design approach with the best aspects of traditional and contemporary design, counterbalanced to create character and a bit of Dallas swagger.”
