Educational Program to Highlight New Trade
Show
Boca Raton, FL The newest industry trade show, aimed at high-end
kitchen and bath professionals, will be highlighted by an extensive
educational and social program over the course of the two-day
event, sponsors announced last month.
According to the show’s organizers, the Dallas-based Davis
Peterson Collaborative LLC, this year’s inaugural Luxury Kitchen
& Bath Collection is the world’s only trade event dedicated to
the high-end kitchen and bath market. It will make its debut Nov.
28-29 at the Boca Raton Resort and Beach Club here.
Educational events over the two days of the show will explore a
broad array of design, application and business topics
“illustrating parallels between innovation and design, the
application of vision and design, designing for upscale living, the
impact of technology, fashion, marketing, art and aesthetics,” the
Davis Peterson Collaborative said.
“The Collection speakers are visionaries, design experts,
futurists, artists, movie producers, economists, fashion designers
and human behavioralists from disciplines in and outside of the
design profession,” organizers added.
Among the highlights of the educational program schedule are the
following:
Wednesday, Nov. 28
8:30 a.m. 10 a.m.
Opening Breakfast and Convocation
Creative Crossover: The Impact of the Entertainment
Industry on Design
Learn how entertainment styles reflect lifestyle and design
needs.
10 a.m. 10:30 a.m.
Product Showcase Collection Displays & Sponsored Networking
Salons
10:30 a.m. Noon
Life Views: How the Affluent Buy
Use clients’ views of themselves and their lifestyles to understand
their buying needs, and attract them to your firm Speaker:
Donald Ziccardi, president and CEO, Ziccardi &
Partners
Enchanting Paradoxes: Exploring Trends, Cultivating
Contrasts, Generating Profits
Explore the concepts of: Mass Customization, Democratic Luxury,
Fashionable Basics, Retro Futurism, Blind Design, Home-Made
Take-Out, Modern Vintage, and Zakka. Speaker: Robyn Waters,
v.p./trend and design, Target
Spectrum Savvy: Impact of Colorin Black and
White
Look at color trends at the high end, and the effect of color on
communication, sales and behavior.
Mental Matrix: How to Engage in Naked
Thinking
Learn how to maintain the “sense of adventure” in your design
work.
Speaker: Marc Marsan, founder, Marco Polo
Explorers.
12:30 p.m. 2 p.m.
Industry Luncheon and Product Fashion Show
Fashion Forward: Deeper Connections Between Fashion &
Furnishings
Learn how to draw useful conclusions about preferred home style
from your client’s fashion sense. Speaker: Michael
Faircloth, owner, Michael Faircloth.
2:30 p.m. 4 p.m.
Life Views: How the Affluent Buy
Spectrum Savvy: Impact of Colorin Black and
White
Mental Matrix: How to Engage in Naked
Thinking
4 p.m. 7 p.m.
Product Displays & Networking
Thursday, Nov. 29
8:30 a.m. 10 a.m.
Continental Journeys: How International Kitchen and Bath and
Hospitality Trends Will Affect U.S. Luxury Products and
Installations
10 a.m. 11 a.m.
Product Displays & Networking
11 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Learning from Experience: Dreams Realized
What makes for great design from the perspective of several leading
designers and architects is revealed in detailed case studies.
Speakers: Bruce Bierman, president, Bierman Design; Laura
Bohn, president, Laura Bohn Design; Clodagh, president, Clodagh
Design.
11 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
LUX Service: Excelling at Customer Retention
Management
Learn customer retention tricks.
Speaker: Len Casey, consultant.
11 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Image Essential: Keys to Emotional Branding
Learn how to brand in order to reflect qualities you want your
clients to perceive about you and your company’s credibility,
personality, trust, professionalism, etc. Speaker: Martyn
Straw, president, Interbrand.
1 p.m. 6 p.m.
Product Displays & Networking