May 20-22, 2025 | CHATHAM BARS INN | CHATHAM, MA
A conference and networking event for individuals who lead, manage, or are involved in firms serving the luxury home design industry.
Our 2025 Keynotes!
Gil Schafer, AIA
Architect, Author, and
Founding Partner, Schafer Buccellato Architects
Rush Jenkins
Designer, Author, CEO
Co-founder, WRJ Design
Chris Dyer
Company Culture
Leadership Speaker on Culture
Learn More About Our Keynotes
About the Conference
Now entering its sixth year, the Luxury Home Design Summit, presented by New England Home and Esteem Media, is a conference and networking event accessible to today’s and future leaders in the luxury home design industry who run, own, manage, or aspire to lead home design businesses around the country.
This unique event is focused on helping passionate and creative architects, interior design principals, landscape architects and designers, builders, contractors, and showroom operators and suppliers who serve the luxury design market. Summit programming will help these professionals develop foundational market knowledge, business vision, key skills, problem-solving, and community by providing face-to-face access to leading experts on innovation, affluent consumers, effective leadership, and maximizing performance.
Who Should Attend
Attendees are principals and leaders representing the following areas:
- Architecture
- Interior Design
- Landscape Architecture
- Building/Contracting
- Showrooms, Retailers, and Suppliers serving the luxury New England design market
- National luxury design brands aspiring to build and enhance relationships in the design community
- Bloggers, digital marketplaces, media and PR professionals
- Design Centers
Why Attend
- Develop cutting-edge business and market knowledge via in-depth conference sessions
- Create an insightful vision to keep luxury design businesses prepared and strong
- Explore innovative ideas from industry thought leaders and experts from inside and outside the New England region
- Senior level networking opportunities with other leaders in the luxury design community
EVENT RETURNS TO CHATHAM IN 2025– 2024 Conference Rated Among the Best by Attendees
Event Sold Out Months In Advance for the Past 2 Years!
Presenting Sponsors New England Home and Esteem Media are thrilled to announce that the 2025 Luxury Home Design Summit will return to the Chatham Bars Inn in Chatham, MA on May 20-22, 2025. The 2024 conference was rated very highly in our onsite surveys with our attendees, sponsors, and speakers!
"The event continues to be received so favorably from our New England luxury home design community as well as the national sponsors and attendees who participated from outside the New England region, " said Kathy Bush-Dutton, publisher of New England Home magazine
Both Industry and Outside-Industry Speakers in the Program
Stan Dixon, Brian Sawyer and John Berson, and Mark Hutker joined the illustrious speaker roster which also included many renowned outside-industry speakers like Scott Lesnick and Danushka Nanayakkarra-Skillington.
Attendees included principals and leaders representing the following areas: architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, building and contracting, showrooms, retailers, and suppliers serving the luxury New England design market, national luxury design brands aspiring to build relationships in New England design community, traditional media, bloggers, digital marketplaces, and PR, and design centers.
“The Luxury Home Design Summit is focused on helping the professional design community see both today’s and tomorrow’s inflection points while providing context for navigating them successfully,” said Adam Japko, CEO of co-presenting event sponsor Esteem Media and founder of the Design Influencers Conference. "While many other design events are produced to help attendees optimize current business systems, continue design education, and hear design icons recant their journeys, the Luxury Home Design Summit is a serious education and networking forum for owners and leaders of professional design businesses hoping to build lasting enterprises with considerable value.”
Topics and sessions from 2024 conference included:
- National Association of Home Builders: An Analytical Trend Look and Forecast
- Exceptional Leadership Amid Change- Building Organizational Resilience from the Inside/Out
- Establish Brand Values to Make Your Business Thrive
- Creating the Perfect Team
- The Art of Being Found: Strategic SEO for Luxury Brands
- Luxury Home Design Summit Scholarships for Up and Coming Design Professionals
- Digital Media Genius Bar
- How to Communicate Across Multiple Generations of Staff and Clients
- PR Beyond Print: Luxury Design Event Strategies
- The Power of Collaboration
- Luxury Homes Meets Reduced Carbon Footprint
- Case Studies from New England: Using Technology in Cutting-Edge Design
- Narrative Homes
- Elegantly Efficient: AI Tools to Streamline Design and Buy Time
- Curated Luxury In The World of Vacation Rentals
- Sell to the Affluent: Insider Secrets for Success in the Luxury Market
Hope to see you in May 2025 in Chatham!
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