When Martha Sturdy decided to close the doors on her Vancouver retail outlet earlier this year, she replaced it with a designer gallery/showroom dubbed Gallery M - a facility that would enable her and her staff to better serve the design community. Located next to Sturdy's office/production facility at 16 West 5th Avenue, the new…
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Here's the situation: You're given a below-ground space to transform from substandard to spectacular. It used to house an antique shop and two other tiny retail entities, none of them redone since the 1970s. The wall to the left of the sunken entryway is blank; on the right, two large dormer windows face the street…
New Jersey-based Pantone, a provider of professional colour standards for design industries, and Clariant International of Muttenz, Switzerland, a textile colorant and chemical producer have partnered in order to increase their efficiency in serving the fashion and home furnishings industries worldwide. The partnership connects users of the Pantone Fashion + Home Color System with Clariant's…
Toronto's Phoenix Floor & Wall Products has recently been awarded sole distribution rights for Forbo products throughout Canada. The company has been a major distributor of commercial flooring products in Eastern Canada, where it is already the sole Forbo distributor, since 1976. Along with the new distribution agreement, which goes into effect Sept. 7, Phoenix…
Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) of Eindhoven, Netherlands, is celebrating its 60th anniversary by organizing the exhibition The Family of Form, at the Salon del Mobile 2007 in the Museo Luciano Minguzzi in Milan, April 18 to 22. The exhibition, which will showcase the work of three generations of DAE graduates, will focus on the investigation…
Sico Paints of Longueuil, Que., has announced the removal of all volatile organic compounds (VOC) from its Sico Design product line. The emission-free paint has been endorsed by Green Seal, a Washington D.C.-based, non-profit organization which recognizes environmental excellence. "The new zero-VOC paint is high in performance, so customers do not have to compromise on…