What do you wish was easier to make and source in the USA? We’d like to see more upholstered pieces like sofas and loungers coming from the independent design community. Sofas are inherently larger ticket items and harder to store, so not a lot of smaller designers are producing them, particularly in the big cities like New York and San Francisco where studio space is expensive. Floor Lamp by Volk, $975. Search “icff-2010-from-the-show-floor.html” from The Retailers of American-Made Design: WorkOf

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What do you wish was easier to make and source in the USA?

We’d like to see more upholstered pieces like sofas and loungers coming from the independent design community. Sofas are inherently larger ticket items and harder to store, so not a lot of smaller designers are producing them, particularly in the big cities like New York and San Francisco where studio space is expensive. Floor Lamp by Volk, $975.