To the Trade Only

There are certain products on the market that are only available to a designer or an architect, and they’re not available in retail. These vendors only sell to architects and designers. Ordering furniture, spec'ing furniture, and finding the appropriate furniture is actually not that easy to do.

Many shops at the Boston Design Center sell only to professionals.

For example there are so many components to a sofa, for example, the arm style, the cushion style, the back style, whether there’s welting, which is the piping or not, what stain you have on the leg, which way the fabric is applied –- all of those things need to be spec'd.