click thumbnails for larger picsThis year at the Home and Housewares show the "thinking green" message was still there, loud and clear. As we all know, one of the easiest things to do is to stop usin...
click thumbnails for larger picsBack in the 1970s, kitchen colors were different - appliances were "harvest gold" and "avocado" and the designers of kitchen tools and tabletop items seemed to look t...
click thumbnails for larger picsSometimes a little humor goes a long way, especially on the floor of a giant trade show. We always look forward to a stop at Fred & Co. - the items are silly (in a goo...
Naturally, we checked out the Pantone's color forecast display at the Home and Housewares show again this year. It is always one of our favorite parts of the show - seeing the colors and trends that ...
click thumbnails for larger picsTwo new launches from Fiesta at the Home and Housewares show this week: a new color of the ever-collectible dishware and a brand new shape that was described......
click thumbnails for larger picsWe've always liked the design of the Casabella goods from a purely visual standpoint and now they have taken the line to a green(er) place. At the Home & Housewares sh...
Miam Miam s booth at the Home and Housewares show looked a bit Jetsons-like...futuristic in a cartoony, vision of the sixties way. Which is a good thing......
As you walk the aisles of a giant show like Home and Housewares, great looking booths appear like an oasis in the desert of silicone oven mitts. Last week, Sagaform was one oasis......
More green cleaning at Home and Housewares - this time for the laundry room. From Canada, Nellie's makes an ever-expanding line of earth-friendly goods for wash day......
This handsome man has been around for a loooong time, he is pretty much the archetypical "door to door" salesman. The good news is that his company is looking......
Colorful, shiny, retro - we were drawn to the Dulton booth because their goods were more like toys for grownups than housewares. At the show from Hong Kong... ...
My personal favorite earth-friendly cleaning company was out in force at the Home and Housewares show. We spent some time at the booth to find out what's new:...
We spent some time Sunday speaking to Elena Kowalski (above), designer for Mesa. A recent graduate of Pratt, Elena is helping to totally reinvent......
One of the big trends that we're seeing in the tabletop/serving area of the Home and Housewares show is the mix of natural materials with really bold, very UN-natural colors and finishes. A prime exam...
OXO was showing the full line of Candela lighting at their booth at Home and Housewares this year. OXO recently acquired the line from Vessel and are starting to show and ship the pieces. Some good ne...
AS SEEN ON TV! Yes, the infamous Ginsu has a booth at the gigantic Home and Housewares show, currently in full swing here in Chicago. We spent the day there yesterday with Chris and Faith from The Kit...
In just over a week, we'll be in a similar sea of folks in ties and badges - the annual International Home and Housewares show. It's gigantic and a bit crazy and absolutely full of STUFF, but we can h...
We finally made it to Macy's to check out the new Martha Stewart Home Collection. Good stuff all around, but we were most excited about the dishes. We've always been a fan of blue and white color pa...
Wallflowers metal clothes hooks Fred & Friends makes well-designed "gifty" items, with a focus on housewares. They are based in Rhode Island and work with designers worldwide to bring amusing produc...
ScanWood is a Danish line of super-simple lovely wooden kitchen, tabletop and office accessories. Around since 1919, they make modern, functional tools and decorative pieces from beech, cherry, mapl...
A satisfying crush is key to why the Ecopod works. It's well designed (by BMW's Designworks), well made (of stainless steel) and looks nice (in white or black), but we are convinced that it is just k...
The Italian Job is a new line of tabletop and kitchen goods from Typhoon, a international housewares company based in the UK. Designed by an in-house team to evoke classic Italian good looks, we l...
We walked miles yesterday at the International Home and Housewares Show. We loved meeting up with Chris, editor at AT:The Kitchen to talk AT and compare notes on the exhibitors. As expected, there ...
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