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5/7/2024
Common Furnishings’s Janine Wagers took on the title of Vice President of Visible Merchandising, efficient Could 1. Throughout her greater than 20 years with the corporate as Director of Visible Merchandising and Inventive Director, she’s created the face of the Common model because it’s offered to prospects at Excessive Level Market.
“Janine is an trade veteran and an skilled in her craft,” mentioned Common Furnishings President Sean O’Connor. “That’s evident to everybody who steps by the showroom doorways. Her potential to create a visible story and make the collections come to life conjures up our prospects.”
“I by no means work in a silo,” mentioned Wagers. “It takes everybody within the group to make Common feel and appear like Common — to have the showroom design inform a narrative, and create an immersive expertise for company.”
Wagers oversees a group of 4, directing technique and the visible illustration of the Common model. She works intently with product improvement, gross sales and provide chain companions, utilizing knowledge and development analysis to find out what’s most necessary in every room of the 115,000-square-foot showroom.
She finds inspiration in all places: from nature, worldwide commerce reveals, antiques reveals and even eating places.
“Design inspiration comes from dealing with challenges, however that’s what makes it thrilling,” mentioned Wagers. “Designing an area that has that wow issue whereas additionally becoming into the parameters of funds, timeline, and different logistical issues is a problem. However when all of it comes collectively superbly and seamlessly, leaving folks speaking concerning the area afterward, that’s what makes all of it value it.”
Wagers graduated from the College of Georgia in 1985, the place she acquired a BFA in inside design with a minor in furnishings design from the Lamar Dodd College of Artwork. After graduating, she started working with Bassett Furnishings, designing furnishings after which retail areas for its gallery program, and later moved on to designing showrooms and operating her personal inside design enterprise. In 1989, she began her profession at Common as a showroom designer, working her method as much as turn into the corporate’s first inventive director, and now its first feminine vp.
About Common
Retailers and inside designers around the globe belief Common Furnishings’s award-winning, sensible and classy designs to create fashionable, well-appointed residing areas for the entire residence. The corporate’s casegood, upholstery, accent and out of doors designs are developed below the model names Common Furnishings, Miranda Kerr Dwelling and Coastal Dwelling.
Common Furnishings, based in 1968 and based mostly in Excessive Level, N.C., is the recipient of 14 Pinnacle awards for design excellence from the Worldwide Society of Furnishings Designers. It’s a model of Samson Holdings, one of many world’s largest vertically built-in furnishings producers. For extra data, please go to www.universalfurniture.com, or discover us on Fb, Instagram, and Pinterest @UniversalFurn.