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![A woman-owned disruptor in the funeral industry Erica Hill's Sparrow is a wellness shop featuring candles, cards, throws and other items Hill calls "comforting goods." Beautifully-designed handmade urns created by artists are also for sale. "If someone is grieving, what's a gift that you would want to give them that would feel feel thoughtful and that they would enjoy — maybe help brighten their day a little bit?" says Hill of the kind of merchandise she likes to curate for her Greenpoint, Brooklyn shop. Sparrow is just one part of Hill's funeral parlor for the 21st century which features a wellness-centric approach, intentional design with locally made artwork on display, lots of light and soothing pastels and soft florals and a more thoughtful approach to offering comfort. Sparrow is the result of Hill's own early experience with loss and attending funerals for friends where she says "whatever I had just experienced didn't at all feel like something my friends would have liked. And the spaces we were in would be very depressing." For Hill Sparrow is an extension of the wellness trend but at a deeper level. " I think we're working towards [thinking] about how do we continue to care for ourselves and others when loss happens?"](http://hgtvhome.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/hgtv/fullset/2022/6/22/0/CI_Sparrow-Shop.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.791.594.suffix/1655911604149.jpeg "Vanguard New Businesses")
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For 2023, Here’s What We’re Bringing Home — and What’s Heading to the Attic
Making pronouncements about the design world is a bit like installing a gallery wall. You gather pieces from all over, arrange them before you in what feels like harmony and stand back to take them all in at once. This season, the team at 1stDibs approached that installation just as you’d imagine an online design marketplace would. They quizzed 880 designers from all over the world on what’s waxing and waning in the interior design world, then they created a composite portrait of the responses. This is the scene they arranged — and what you can expect to see appearing in (and disappearing from) the spaces we’ll move through this year. Make yourself comfortable, and have a look at what’s in store for design in 2023.
