interior design magazine

We‘re announce that there‘s been a return to double-digit growth—a phenomenon that hasn‘t occurred since 2001. The 2005 top 100 Interior Design Giants earned $1,610,057,477, when a rise of little over 1 percent was considered cause for mild jubilation. As for who‘s responsible, four firms moved up from last year‘s second 100 Giants, other four returned after a short hiatus from any Giants ranking, and one seems to have come out of nowhere. As usual, office design was the largest single earner at 35.49 percent of total. Health care, perennially in fourth or fifth place, came in second with 13.26 percent of the total, up 1.76 percentage points. Hospitality, especially hard hit after 2001, but many of the Giants in according to design magazine designattribute their current success to a rebound in this area. And seventh-ranked science and technology is responsible for 6 percent of total earnings.