January 8, 2022 – Dallas Market Center and ART, the creative home furnishings network, have announced the recipients of the 32nd ARTS Awards. Following a judging process guided by a panel of industry experts, category winners were announced at a gala event on Friday, January 7 at the Hilton Anatole hotel co-hosted by Thom Filicia and Carson Kressley. In addition to category winners, the Academy of Achievement honor was awarded to Caroline Hipple of Norwalk Furniture and a special HEARTS Award was presented to The Malouf Foundation.

“Congratulations to this year’s ARTS Awards recipients and to our special honorees,” said Cindy Morris president and CEO of Dallas Market Center said. “It was an amazing evening of celebrating entrepreneurs, top sales people, and legendary leaders.”

32nd ARTS Awards Recipients
Retail Categories

Lighting Showroom
East/Atlantic: Hermitage Design Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Midwest/Southwest: Southern Lights, Burnsville, Minnesota
West: Black Whale Home, Encinitas, California

Home Accents Store
East/Atlantic: Bountiful Home, Easton, Maryland
Midwest/Southwest: Coco & Dash, Dallas, Texas
West: Absolutely Fabulous, Huntington Beach, California

Furniture Store—Single Location: Henry Home Interiors, Norman, Oklahoma
Furniture Store—Multiple Location: Clive Daniel Home, Naples, Florida
Design Studio: In Detail Interiors, Pensacola, Florida

Special Awards
Academy of Achievement Award: Caroline Hipple, Norwalk Furniture
HEARTS Award: The Malouf Foundation
Product Designer: Barry Goralnick
Interior Designer: Jan Showers

Sales Representatives
East/Atlantic: Karen Landes Scherr
Midwest/Southwest: Amy Golightly
West: Leslie Taglio

Manufacturer Categories
Green Award: Polywood
Area Rugs: Rizzy Home
Home Accents: Phillips Collection
Accent Furniture: Norwalk Furniture
Home Textiles: Ann Gish
Tabletop: Beatriz Ball Collection
Outdoor Living: Seasonal Living
Wall Décor: Itinerant Studio
Lamps: Pacific Coast Lighting
Lighting Fixtures: Hubbardton Forge

Sponsors for the 32nd ARTS Awards include Aspire Design & Home; Business of Home; Designers Today; D Home; Furniture, Lighting & Décor; Furniture Today; Gifts & Decorative Accessories; Home Accents Today; Home Textiles Today; Interior Design Society, and Sustainable Furnishings Council.

32nd ARTS Awards to Honor the Malouf Foundation with a HEARTS Award; Hosts Thom Filicia and Carson Kressley to Emcee the Returning Event

CHARLOTTE / DALLAS – December 9, 2021 – Dallas Market Center and ART, the creative home furnishings network, have announced that the Malouf Foundation will be honored with a special HEARTS Award at the 32^nd ARTS Awards. The gala event honoring home industry excellence will be emceed by Thom Filicia and Carson Kressley at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas on Friday, January 7, 2022.

The Malouf Foundation is being honored for their sustained leadership helping keep children safe. Their flagship cause is confronting child sexual exploitation through education, healing and justice. They support their mission by donating products, partnering with industry experts and survivor leaders to educate the public, and advocating to improve awareness in groups and communities that can make a difference. In 2020, more than 15,000 individuals were trained nationwide by the Malouf Foundation to help increase identification of victims, and a new initiative was established to provide long-term restorative care for child survivors of sex trafficking.

“We are honoring the Malouf Foundation for one simple reason: heart-based leadership,” said Sharon Davis, executive director of ART. “Kacie and Sam have put their values into action by creating an organization that protects the most vulnerable. During this extraordinary time, we want to recognize the remarkable values the Malouf Foundation reflects and the incredible results they have generated.”

The HEARTS Award is a special honor that began as an entire event during the pandemic. In June of  2021, the annual ARTS Awards was replaced by a one-time special event called the HEARTS Awards held in partnership and solidarity with twelve leading industry organizations to honor companies and individuals that have shown outstanding leadership, empathy, and service during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the return of the ARTS Awards, organizations were invited to nominate a worthy organization for a HEARTS Award.

The Malouf Foundation was created in 2016 by Kacie and Sam Malouf, founders of Malouf Home™, which features more than 10,000 product options and has more than 15,000 retail partners. Because of the capabilities of the core company, the Malouf Foundation can give 100 percent of its resources to the people it serves.

The ARTS Awards, presented annually during the January Dallas Total Home & Gift Market, recognizes preeminent manufacturers, retailers, interior designers, product designers, and sales representatives.  Carson Kressley and Thom Filicia will return to the stage as official emcees of the black-tie gala. The emcees, together with a slate of industry leaders, will announce category winners, the special Academy of Achievement Award being presented to Caroline Hipple of Norwalk Furniture, and the HEARTS Award being presented to the Malouf Foundation.

Tickets are $145 for ART members and $170 for non-members. Tables are also available. For more information visit www.dallasmarketcenter.com/artsawards.

Sponsors for the 32nd ARTS Awards include Aspire Design & Home; Business of Home; Designers Today; D Home; Furniture, Lighting & Décor; Furniture Today; Gifts & Decorative Accessories; Home Accents Today; Home Textiles Today; Interior Design Society, and Sustainable Furnishings Council.

2022 Conference Sponsors

“We’re excited for the opportunity to collaborate with our sponsors and partners in San Antonio. Including a multi-channel prospective is so vital to understanding and building productive relationships among our members and the industry”, said Sharon Davis of ART.

The 2022 program will be led by co-chairs, Santhi Yarlagadda, KAS Rugs and Colleen Daly, The Howard Elliott Collection.

The conference website is here. Program details will be updated as received and conference registration will open in January. Current conference sponsors include: Dallas Market Center, High Point Market, Global Views, Jola, Varaluz, Cyan Design and Howard Elliott Collection. Available sponsorships are available here.

For more information on ART membership and other ART programming, please visit www.accessoriesresourceteam.org or call 704-904-7854.

October 26, 2021 –  Dallas Market Center and ART, the creative home furnishings network, have announced that reservations are now open for the 32nd ARTS Awards, the premier event honoring home industry excellence. The event will take place at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas on Friday, January 7, 2022.

The ARTS Awards, presented annually during the January Dallas Total Home & Gift Market, recognizes preeminent manufacturers, retailers, interior designers, product designers, and sales representatives.  After a judging process guided by an esteemed judging panel of independent industry experts, the category winners will be announced. In addition, the special Academy of Achievement Award will be presented to Caroline Hipple of Norwalk Furniture.

Tickets are $145 for ART members and $170 for non-members. Tables are also available. For more information visit www.dallasmarketcenter.com/artsawards.    Reservations can be made here.

Sponsors for the 32nd ARTS Awards include Aspire Design & Home; Business of Home; Designers Today; D Home; Furniture, Lighting & Décor; Furniture Today; Gifts & Decorative Accessories; Home Accents Today; Home Textiles Today; Interior Design Society, and Sustainable Furnishings Council.

ARTS Awards Judges Announced

—Distinguished panel to adjudicate industry’s highest accolade for 32^nd event—

DALLAS/CHARLOTTE – October 7, 2021 – Dallas Market Center and ART, the creative home furnishings network, have announced the judges for the 32nd ARTS Awards, taking place at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas on Friday, January 7, 2022.   The ARTS Awards, presented annually during the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market, acknowledges preeminent manufacturers, retailers, interior designers, product designers, and sales representatives.

The esteemed judging panel will select winners from digital submissions that vary based upon category and may consist of product development, marketing, merchandising, company differentiation examples, or professional information.

In November, the judges will convene in Dallas for two days to review each individual or company submission. Once all components of judging are complete, a designated accounting firm tabulates and secures the scores until the winners are announced for the first time at the ARTS Awards gala.

The 32nd ARTS Awards judges are:

Caroline Biggs, Market Editor at Business of Home. She was formerly the Chief Writer at Domino magazine, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, Refinery29, Martha Stewart Living, Wirecutter, and more. A maximalist at heart, she believes that every object should have some sort of function in a home—even if it’s just to be beautiful and interesting.

Sandy Hughes, partner and Chief Creative Officer at Steelyard, the trade-only online product resource that seamlessly connects interior designers in the residential, commercial, and contract realms with top design-centric brands. As CCO, she oversees site and editorial content, member engagement, brand messaging, and marketing. She researches and views thousands of Steelyard products every month, introducing new brands and products exclusively to design professionals. It is also Sandy’s priority to make Steelyard’s commitment to professional and product education continually relevant and important to the designers Steelyard serves and to help elevate the interior design trade at large.

Susan Inglis, executive director of Sustainable Furnishings Council and founder of From the Mountain, has over 25 years of experience working with artisans and promoting sustainable manufacturing in the home furnishings, fashion, and gift industries. Under Inglis’ direction, SFC has gained national attention and brought the organization widespread recognition as the primary source for verified sustainable home furnishings. Most recently, SFC opened an office in High Point, North Carolina. For the ARTS Awards, Inglis exclusively serves as the Green Award judge and reviews only the manufacturing finalists’ submissions.

David Landis, designer and principal of David Landis Design, Inc., which creates lighting fixtures for many of the top North American companies in the market today. He combines more than 35 years of experience with a taste for fashion, function, and marketability. His design work translates the integrated vision of both his client’s wants and needs and his own designer’s lens. He is able to interpret, share, and offer concepts and innovative solutions based on current trends.

Connie Post, chief executive officer of Connie Post Affordable Design Solutions. She is renowned as a retail design strategist, author, trend translator and developer of both product and brands. Connie has built a career on understanding where consumers are, what they want most, and where they are going next. As the standard bearer of visual marketing in the home furnishings industry for the past three decades, she is responsible for the look of more than 22 million square feet of retail and wholesale space around the globe.

Cheminne Taylor-Smith, principal, Cheminne.com. She is a creative thinker and idea generator who specializes in branding, strategy, licensing, relationship marketing, promotion, social media, and content creation. Known for her insight and straight talk, she’s helped home furnishings companies and solopreneurs take their brands to the next level and improve their businesses including  Elle Decor, High Point Market, Showtime cable network, Christie’s, Metropolitan Home, Conde Nast, Galerie Magazine, Bernhardt, Hudson Publishing, and more.

Reservations for the ARTS Awards opened October 1. Tickets are $145 for ART members and $170 for non-members. Tables are also available.   Reserve here.

Sponsors for the 32nd ARTS Awards include Aspire Design & Home; Business of Home; Designers Today; D Home; Furniture, Lighting & Décor; Furniture Today; Gifts & Decorative Accessories; Home Accents Today; Home Textiles Today; Interior Design Society, and Sustainable Furnishings Council.

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