Furniture Style

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Furniture Style
Cover of Furniture Style magazine
Type business magazine
Format Paper and online magazine

Owner Vance Publishing Corp.
Editor Julie M. Smith
Founded 1996
Language English
Headquarters Lincolnshire, Illinois, USA
Circulation 25,000
ISSN 1094-6640

Website: Furniture Style

Furniture Style (magazine) is a monthly business-to-business magazine and Web site serving home furnishings retailers, specificially furniture retailers, and interior designers. Owned by William C. Vance's Vance Publishing Corp., the magazine is BPA-audited and reaches 25,000 furniture retail professionals in the United States and Canada. The magazine is based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, at Vance Publishing's corporate headquarters; it was founded in October 1996. Key members of the editorial staff are Editorial Director Julie M. Smith; Editor Romy Schafer; Managing Editors Stephanie Mitchell and Thomas Prais; and Senior Contributing Editor Nancy Robinson.

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Furniture Style presents content in a concise, highly visual format that puts product trends at center stage. Topics include merchandising advice, consumer shopping trends and timely news about home furnishings retailers' most profitable product categories, such as bedroom, dining room, entertainment, youth, accent, area rugs, mattresses and upholstery.

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A.D.I. Awards — Advancing Design & Innovation - Annual home furnishings awards program for Las Vegas Market exhibitors produced by Furniture Style magazine and the World Market Center.

www.furniturestyle.com - Furniture Style launched a new Web site in May 2007 that includes multimedia pods, Style File trend slide shows, Web-only articles, breaking news and editors’ blogs, as well as current and archived articles from the print edition.

Home Fashion Forecast - A quarterly fashion supplement that showcases new products for the whole home, presents color forecasts and interviews with design talent, and offers timely merchandising advice. Previously distributed only at the High Point and Las Vegas markets, Home Fashion Forecast is now available online.

Home Point — Where Furniture Retailers Click – An online focus group of home furnishings retailers that provides the data for Furniture Style's monthly "Retail Matters" column.

The Retail Experience – An annual supplement that provides extensive, exclusive research about home furnishings consumers and their purchase decisions.

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