People: Hospitality Match Rocked Pasadena Designers and FF&E Suppliers Met, Mingled, and Matched Up It sure was fun, but Hospitality Match (or MATCH) was all business. Boutique Design's parent company, Sipco Publications & Events, held the fourth annual MATCH in Pasadena, California last week. The ...  ++Full Story...

Boutique Blog: Business Sense: Personality Profiling at Firms Candidate screening can help the firm — and you — decide if you're a good fit for the job If you’ve read “A Matter of Professionalism: Generation Y in the Design Workforce” from the July/August issue of Boutique Design (or here online), you heard about the personality assessment that ...  ++Full Story...

Projects: Rockwell Group Mixes Work and Play Designs South Street Seaport, NYC Playground Renowned restaurant and hotel designer David Rockwell has designed a new playground to open at the South Street Seaport in NYC. Rockwell took on the project after being disappointed by ...  ++Full Story...

Projects: Brad Pitt to Team with Zabeel on Luxury, Green Dubai Project According to the International Construction Review, Brad Pitt is planning to pursue a green luxury project in Dubai with Zabeel Properties said to be the future host to the “most ...  ++Full Story...

Projects: Pantin Hotels Readies For Unveiling of First Property Pantin Hotels is finishing up its first hotel, a boutique named The Ellington, in Leeds, England. Due to open this September, it’s already been accepted to the Leading Small Hotels ...  ++Full Story...

People: Personality Hotels Welcomes New Corporate Director of Sales and Marketing Danya Zeitlin has been hired as the corporate director of sales and marketing for Personality Hotels, San Francisco’s largest privately owned boutique hotel operator. She has worked in the hospitality ...  ++Full Story...

Business: A Matter of Professionalism: Generation Y in the Design Workforce You may have heard the labels — the Bling-Bling Generation, the Me-Me-Me Generation, Generation M (for money, that is) — of a group demanding more pay, more recognition, more flex ...  ++Full Story...

Boutique Blog: Danielle Rios: If you want your life to have impact, focus it! We'd like to introduce you to Danielle Rios, a former model and actress who honed her interest in fashion into another career involving creativity, reinvention and glamour — interior design. ...  ++Full Story...

DREAMbook: Drool-Worthy Product of the Week Citrus Delight What is it exactly that is so appealing about the color orange? The childhood memories of eating the fruit that bears the same name? Perhaps it’s the now more adult ...  ++Full Story...

DREAMbook: Getting to Know: Camilla Diedrich Beginning her career as a model at her mother's art school at age three, Camilla Diedrich isn’t what you would call your “average” designer. Her working method so original it ...  ++Full Story...