Furnishings World Information Desk on
3/11/2025
Hooker Furnishings will host a collection of expert-led discussions, interactive workshops, and
networking alternatives at its Spring 2025 Excessive Level Market showroom. The occasion lineup, taking
place April 25-28, will cowl rising design tendencies, enterprise progress methods, and
digital advertising and marketing insights, providing priceless takeaways for retail and design professionals.
All occasions will likely be held on the Hooker Furnishings Showroom, Showplace, third Flooring.
Friday, April 25
- 2:00 PM – Succeed with 2025 Tendencies: Insights from the ASID Outlook
Report
Speaker: Dr. Daybreak Haynie, Ph.D., Analysis Fellow, American
Society of
Inside Designers (ASID)
Description: The 2025 ASID Tendencies Outlook Report reveals the important thing shifts shaping the way forward for
design, from wellness-focused environments to sustainability and technological developments. As areas evolve to
meet altering life and expectations, understanding these tendencies is important for designers, retailers, and
business professionals alike.Be a part of Dr. Daybreak Haynie, a number one researcher and business professional, as she unpacks the most recent findings and supplies
actionable methods for creating modern, purpose-driven areas that improve well-being, resilience, and
inclusivity. Whether or not you are a designer, retailer, or just enthusiastic about the way forward for interiors, this
partaking
session will equip you with the insights wanted to remain forward in 2025 and past.
It is a CEU-accredited instructional occasion (1 CEU Hour)
Location: Designer’s Theater | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third
Flooring
Saturday, April 26
- 2:00 PM – Interiors in Focus: Smartphone Suggestions and Styling Secrets and techniques
Audio system: Linda Holt, Photographer & Smartphone Pictures Educator,
Linda Holt
Inventive; Christy Day, Inside Stylist & Founder, Christy Day Designs
Description: Be a part of smartphone pictures professional Linda Holt and inside stylist Christy Day for
a
enjoyable, interactive workshop on capturing and styling interiors like a professional. With over 25 years in pictures and a
background in inside design, Linda teaches designers methods to take polished, professional-looking photographs utilizing
simply
a smartphone. Christy, whose work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Coastal Dwelling,
brings
her experience in styling for prime manufacturers to indicate how composition and ending touches can elevate any
house.In case you are seeking to refine your visible storytelling, this session will present easy but impactful strategies
to
make your interiors stand out. Stroll away with straightforward, sensible tricks to improve your styling and pictures
expertise—excellent for creating beautiful portfolio photographs or social media content material.
Location: Designer’s Theater | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third Flooring
- 3:00 PM – Joyful Hour
Location: Clyde’s Café | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third
Flooring
Sunday, April 27
- 10:00 AM – Advertising and marketing Methods for Inside Designers: Constructing a Standout Model in 2025
Moderator: LuAnn Nigara, Enterprise Mentor, Speaker & Host of A Effectively-Designed
Enterprise®
Podcast
Panelists: Laurie Laizure, Cameron Sellers, and Jude Charles
Description: This session will dive into efficient advertising and marketing methods tailor-made for inside
designers, serving to them appeal to supreme purchasers, construct their model, and leverage digital instruments for progress. With
LuAnn
Nigara moderating an professional panel, you’ll takeaway insights on: - Model voice: are you positioning your self as a luxurious, mid-market, or accessible designer?
- The ability of storytelling: Showcasing initiatives in a compelling manner
- Balancing natural content material vs. paid promoting
- Utilizing AI instruments for content material creation & advertising and marketing effectivity
Location: Designer’s Theater | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third Flooring - 2:00 PM – Roar Ahead…Meet Your Future
Speaker: Kelly Peterson, Enterprise Intelligence Knowledgeable & Advertising and marketing Strategist, ROAR
Ahead
Description: America has entered a interval of disruptive demographic change which is remaking
social,
political, and financial norms whereas ushering in a brand new period for our nation. Older populations will outnumber
youthful ones throughout the nation as we’re experiencing declining delivery charges, and elevated
longevity.Meet the Re-Imagineers: at present’s 50+ shoppers who’re redefining stereotypes and driving new tendencies towards
making their greatest future a actuality.With greater than 30 years of expertise in media, publishing, and advertising and marketing technique, Kelly has suggested world
manufacturers
on methods to adapt to evolving shopper landscapes. On this session, she’s going to present actionable methods for
companies and inside designers to thrive in an period of demographic transformation.
Location: Designer’s Theater | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third Flooring
- 3:00 PM – Joyful Hour
Location: Clyde’s Café | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third
Flooring
Monday, April 28
- 10:00 AM – Classes Discovered & Income Earned: Design Execs Share Their Design Enterprise Journey
& Their Path to Profitability
Moderator: Rick Campos, Host of Design Biz Survival Information Podcast
Panelists: DuVal Reynolds – DuVal Design, LLC, Melissa Sanabria – Sanabria & Co, LLC;
Antonio
DeLoatch – Antonio DeLoatch Design + Interiors
Description: Be a part of us for an insightful panel dialogue with three business professionals about the place
they
began, the place they’ve been, and the place they’re headed within the enterprise of design. Our panelists will
reveal classes realized, discovering their why, their path to profitability, and the imaginative and prescient for the way forward for their
design enterprise.
Location: Designer’s Theater | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third Flooring
- 2:00 PM – Past the Fundamentals: Trip Leases, Residential, and Staging Design
Moderator: Caroline Hipple, Chief Inventive Officer, Hooker Furnishings
Panelists: Jessica Duce, Principal Designer & CEO, JDuce Design & Trip Rental
Designers; Rachel Moriarty, CEO & Principal Inside Designer, Rachel Moriarty Interiors; Birgit Anich, CEO
& Inventive Director, BA Staging & Interiors
Description: The variations between trip rental design, residential design, and
staging
design go far past the merchandise you specify. On this expert-led panel, STR-expert Jessica Duce, residential
designer Rachel Moriarty, and luxurious stager Birgit Anich will break down the distinctive elements of every self-discipline,
providing key insights on pricing buildings, consumer focus, and the designer-client relationship throughout these
industries.Whether or not you are seeking to increase your providers or higher perceive the nuances of those rising markets, this
dialogue will present the experience that you must navigate the alternatives inside every class.
Location: Designer’s Theater | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third Flooring
- 3:00 PM – Joyful Hour
Location: Clyde’s Café | Hooker Furnishings Showroom | Showplace | third
Flooring
About Hooker Furnishings
Headquartered in Martinsville, VA, Hooker
Furnishings is ranked among the many nation’s largest publicly traded furnishings sources and
encompasses 12 working companies. These manufacturers embrace: Hooker
Furnishings, Bradington-Younger, HF Customized, Shenandoah Furnishings, H Contract, M, BOBO
Intriguing Objects, Pulaski
Furnishings, Samuel Lawrence Furnishings, Prime Useful resource Worldwide, Samuel Lawrence Hospitality, and Sundown
West. Hooker Furnishings Company’s company
workplaces and fabric manufacturing amenities are positioned all through Virginia and North Carolina, and the
firm
has showrooms in Excessive Level, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Vietnam.
Hooker Furnishings operates distribution facilities in the USA, China, and Vietnam. The corporate’s inventory
is
listed on the Nasdaq World Choose Market below the image HOFT.
