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.

HON’s new Washington, D.C., showroom

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…

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The Pendant: a single "cubeish" that can be made in any size.

Andrea Claire works wonders with light

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…

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Interpret is a contemporary benching and desking system that works for virtually any person, any task, anywhere in the world.

Teknion’s dual award-winners

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…

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Designed by Jeffrey Bernett and Nicholas Dodziuk of CDS (Consultants for Design Strategy), Fractals Seating Group comprises a lounge chair, settee and ottoman/bench designed to support new organic planning in contemporary settings.

Teknion wins four NeoCon awards

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:…

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Narrative, an innovation in hybrid resilient flooring, allows complete freedom of design for all market segments with the added assurance of performance in healthcare clinical areas that need roller mobility, an impermeable wear layer, seam impermeability (sheet flooring),  non-glare surface, and excellent coefficient of friction even when wet. The wear layer is a breakthrough in textile technology with unlimited designs and gradations of color and clarity, all permanently protected with a factory applied finish. The innovative construction is another extension of the Tandus family of hybrid resilient sheet flooring products that include Powerbond and now Narrative. Narrative is 90% recycled content, 100% PVC-free when used with Tandus' "ethos backing" and the overall flooring includes 50 per cent post-consumer recycled content.

Tandus wins big at NeoCon

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…

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BMW Welt. Photo by Anton Schedlbauer

Emporis compiles data on spectacular museums

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…

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Number TEN Architectural Group | Winnipeg, MB, Canada / Project: Douglas Park Elementary School | Regina, SK, Canada

Four Canadian firms win at Design Is… Market Awards

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…

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With his wife and professional partner, Deborah Moss, Edward Lam established Moss & Lam: a professional studio dedicated to creating custom art pieces.

In memoriam: Edward Lam

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…

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Anastasia Rentzos of Andros Kitchen & Bath Designs (centre) is presented with the Green Design Award at the National Kitchen & Bath Association's awards gala, held on Apr.19 in New Orleans. Presenting the award are NKBA president-elect John Petrie, CMKBD and NKBA VP Carolyn Cheetham, CMKBD.

Anastasia Rentzos’s green way with bathroom design

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…

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