Today's Featured Events:

11:00am

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New Lighting Technology:
Color Tuning and Its Effects on Design

System 7 and Wolfers

at the Boston Design Center

One Boston Design Center Place, 4th Floor Seminar Room, Boston, MA 02210

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Tunable white light; RGBW color control, Circadian Rhythm, Human-Centric Lighting… You’ve heard the terms. Now experience how these technologies can enhance your environment and refine your space. Learn how you can create a happier and more comfortable space while accentuating your artwork, fabrics and surfaces. You may even win a Sonos speaker! Read more...

11:30am - 1:30pm

Designing for the New Modern Aesthetic in New England

Seven Tide

7 Tide Street, Boston, MA 02210

While architects have designed contemporary homes in New England for decades, a new surge in interest in clean lines, uncluttered lifestyle and a new modern aesthetic is gaining new traction among the region’s designers and homeowners alike. This event will share the way New England architects, designers and builders are embracing this opportunity and what homeowners are asking for in terms of design features, materials and products to realize their vision. Read more...

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2:00pm

The Organized Kitchen

How to Create Functional and Beautiful Spaces

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Jewett Farms & Co.

at the Boston Design Center

One Design Center Place, Suite 626, Boston, MA 02210

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Join Jewett Farms + Co. kitchen designers, Paula Accioly and Pam Gould, Interior designer Kelly Rogers, and professional organizer Doris Hasbun for a lively discussion that will lead you on the path to an organized kitchen, through lifestyle changes, and design modifications. Is your space chaos? Bring your problem spaces in photos or plans. Following the event our panelists will be available for short one-on-one consults and design ideas and advice. 
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4:00pm - 6:00pm

Ballparks, Budgets, and Bids

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FBN Construction 

at the Favreaulous Factory

12 Channel Street, Suite 802, Boston, MA 02210

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From informing feasibility of a project, through design development and choosing a team of professionals, how can these tools be used; how many, how often, and when are they appropriate. Our panel of experienced professionals will offer their recommendations and experiences and will take questions from the audience. Anecdotes and case studies will be shared that will be certain to resonate with and inform all attendees. Read More...

4:00pm - 7:00pm

Sherwin Williams Colormix Presentation

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Cabot House Furniture

266 Main Street, Weymouth, MA 02188

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Come in. Get inspired. Paint is key to any design. Gabriela Gonzalez from Sherwin-Williams will share the new Colormix Forecast 2019 line. Inspiration to celebration with wine, hors d'oeuvres & conversation. View new product. Need design advice? Our talented team is ready to assist both designers and homeowners alike. Enjoy an extra 10% off all special orders placed this evening. Read more...

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Art Makes the Room: How to Elevate Interiors with Fine Art

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Gallery NAGA 

with Lisa Tharp Interior Architecture & Design

67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116

Please join us for an evening of inspiration as we explore how fine art can transform interiors, whether you are a first-time buyer, seasoned collector or design professional. Talk will begin promptly at 6pm featuring Gallery NAGA Director Meg White, Associate Director Andrea Dabrila, and designer Lisa Tharp. Wine reception to follow. Artist on exhibition, Dinorá Justice, will be present to discuss her paintings. We look forward to having you join us! Read more...

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6:00pm - 7:30pm                             

Heighten with Handmade: How to Use Handcrafted Art in Residential and Commercial Setting

Society of Arts & Crafts

100 Pier 4 Boulevard, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02210

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Join interior designers and artists for a panel discussion on incorporating one-of-a-kind handmade craft throughout residential and commercial settings. Before and after the panel, enjoy light refreshments while taking in an artist demo. Incorporated in 1897, the Society of Arts and Crafts has been at the forefront of the American craft movement, fostering the development, sales, recognition, and education of crafts for over one hundred years. 
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6:00pm - 8:00pm                                            

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The Aesthetics of Sustainability: Architectural Design for the Human Experience

BUTZ & KLUG

at bulthaup atelier

138 Newbury Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02116

By making human experience the focus of architectural design, the sensibilities of aesthetics and the physics of sustainability become powerful symbiotic forces resulting in buildings that are experientially rich and miserly with energy. Through the exploration of the design process of three different projects: a South End townhouse, an historic suburban home, and a coastal pool house, BUTZ + KLUG Architecture will demonstrate the decision-making processes that drive the firm’s buildings towards aesthetic sustainability. Read more...

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4:00pm - 7:00pm

Grand Opening of Lee and Sonder Living Galleries

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Cabot House Furniture

220 Worcester Road, Framingham, MA 01701

Come in. Get inspired. Join Jed Reich, President of Sonder Living; factory representative Christy West from Lee Industries; and the Cabot House design team, for a night of wine, hors d'oeuvres, and conversation as you view our newly renovated 5000 square foot Sonder Living and Lee lifestyle galleries. See something you love? Our designers are ready to assist. Enjoy an extra 10% off on all special orders placed this evening. Read more...

6:00pm - 9:00pm                                            

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Autodesk Design Night

Autodesk

at the BUILD Space, The Innovation and Design Building, 

23 Drydock Avenue, 1st Floor, Boston, MA 02210

Design Night Boston, presented by Autodesk, gathers 250+ design enthusiasts at the BUILD Space to explore, network, and exchange ideas centered around the future of making. At Design Night, guests will explore a theme that challenges the conventionally narrow definition of design. The theme is reflected in all aspects of the event, from the activities that guests enjoy, to the food they eat or the music they hear. Eat! Drink! Make! Learn! Read more...

6:45pm - 8:45pm                                        

Endless Letterpress (Los Últimos)

AIGA

at the Capitol Theatre, Theatre #6

204 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA 02474

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Join AIGA Boston for a screening of the Argentinian  documentary Los Últimos / Endless Letterpress,  directed by Pablo Martin Pivetta and Nicholas Rodriguez Fuchs. In Spanish with English subtitles.​ The film explores what may be the final days of letterpress print shops in Buenos Aires. As printers resign themselves to the end of their craft and their business in the digital age, young people are discovering and taking up letterpress with passion and excitement. Will the practice survive long enough to pass from one generation to the next?   RSVP and more information: boston.aiga.org.