The HON Company, a leading designer and manufacturer of workplace furniture, opened the doors to its relocated and expanded Washington, D.C., resource centre on June 24. The new facility is the largest of the five HON resource centres strategically located throughout the U.S. “This new resource centre joins our other facilities in supporting HON’s customers…
Andrea Claire, the talented abstract painter and sculptor behind Andrea Claire Studio, merges art and design with her stunning collection of geometric, handmade, “green” lighting fixtures and chandeliers. Her modern hanging system re-imagine spaces and are highly customizable large-scale works of art. According to Claire, “A bar, designed by Frank Gehry in Venice, California, was…
Teknion Corporation recently announced that two of its new products – the Interpret desking system and Optos Low Profile architectural wall – received Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. Teknion is the only contract furniture company to…
Teknion Corporation recently announced that four of its new products on display in its expanded and redesigned Merchandise Mart showroom were honoured with prestigious Best of NeoCon Awards at NeoCon 2013, June 10-12, in Chicago. The Fractals Seating Group won Gold in the Seating: Collaborative/Work category as did the Surface Tension Collection in the Textiles:…
Tandus won widespread recognition at NeoCon, winning four Best of NeoCon Awards: Narrative hybrid resilient flooring won an Innovation Award for Healthcare Flooring and a Gold Award for Hard Surface Flooring. The Grasscloth broadloom collection took Gold in Healthcare Flooring, and Presage was honored with Silver for Broadloom Carpet. “We are pleased and humbled to…
Shaw Commercial Hard Surface walked away from Chicago this week with a Best of NeoCon award to put on its mantle. Chordinates, their latest commercial sheet vinyl, has captured the Silver Award in the Healthcare flooring category. This is actually the second year in a row Shaw has won in this category. "Shaw Commercial Hard…
That time-honored institution, the museum, is gradually being superseded. Increasingly, instead of old-fashioned exhibition rooms, it is gigantic event and experience locations that await the visitor. More often than not designed by star architects, many museums now count among the most impressive buildings of our time. As total works of art, it is not just…
In its eighth year, the Design Is… Award program sponsored by Shaw Contract Group recognizes architecture and design firms that are changing the very idea of what design is. This year, Shaw Contract Group introduced Market Awards, representing the highest caliber of work within an industry segment and/or geographic region. 48 winners were picked out…
We have lost one of the greats of Canadian design: Edward Lam. Edward Lam, who, as partner in the artistic Moss & Lam, created countless works that grace the interiors of international hotels, restaurants and retail environments, public and private spaces, died of a brain aneurism on Monday at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He…
As noted in a previous post, designer Anastasia Rentzos, CKD, CBD, of Andros Kitchen & Bath Designs in Mississauga, Ontario, took home the Green Design Award at the National Kitchen & Bath Association’s annual awards ceremony on Thurs., Apr. 18, The awards ceremony was help in New Orleans, Louisiana, in conjunction with the 2013 Kitchen…