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What’s it like sifting through the hundreds of booths at New York’s International Gift Fair? One market editor lives to tell the tale
Twice a year, designers and manufacturers converge on New York’s Javits Center and Pier 94 to show off their furniture, toys, art, pillows, clothing, jewelry, gadgets, scents, bowls, pens, and rugs (and more toys and art and pillows) at the International Gift Fair. Editors, retailers, and interior designers scour miles of aisles in search of the design discoveries everybody will soon be talking about. Here’s what drew my attention at this January’s extravaganza. —Zoe Settle