5.12.08 | Steelcase and Jeannie Bochette organized an event of Shakespearian import a couple of weeks ago. Presented by Roger Payne (biologist) and Lisa Harrow (actress and author) of the SeaChange Institute, SeaChange: Reversing the Tide is performance art that combines science and poetry to make the point that “man is not the overseer of life but an integral part of life’s complex web, and that our survival requires that we attend not just to our own wellbeing, but also to the wellbeing of the entire web of life.”

5.12.08 | Milan was teeming with energy from the first moment I landed, on the eve of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. It was my first time to the Salone, and I didn'’t know what to expect, but the feeling in the city was equivalent to a bubble about to burst, stretching and expanding until finally giving way to the momentum of the event. When the bubble bursts on the first day of the fair, the city comes alive with design.

5.12.08 | The International Contemporary Furniture Fair will take place May 17-20 at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street. More than 25,000 interior designers, architects, retailers, designers, manufacturers, representatives, distributors, and developers are expected to attend during the Fair’s four day run.

5.5.08 | Milan'’s premiere design museum, the Trienalle di Milano, states: to know Italian design, you have to understand Italy and vice versa. We are back from the 2008 Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Salone) to report on the latest in European design trends, and after spending days afoot in the exhibition halls, it became clear that I was due for a refresher course in Italian design (and Italian language, for that matter).

5.5.08 | The worlds of interior design and fashion travel in similar, but differing circles. Rarely do the two worlds collide with such force and grandeur as on the evening of the Emerging Green Builder’s Project Earth Day, an eco-friendly fashion show put on by the USGBC’s young professional contingent. Teknion positions itself right in the thick of things by hosting the event at its New York City showroom, a space that perfectly suits the event’s eco-minded theme as well as the stylishly chic crowd.

5.5.08 | As the industry quakes as the present economic difficulties recall the blood-letting earlier this decade, thoughts inevitably turn toward areas less struck by business cycles. Those include government work and, as if to create some silver lining the IIDA (International Interior Design Association (and Tandus are collaborating to produce a series of events in 2008 for government designers, and in particular members of IIDA’s Government Forum.

4.28.08 | This year's Calibre Awards was a bit different and included a 20 year retrospective of all the worthy, proven partners on the design team. Calibre Awards were given in seven categories.

4.28. 08 | Spring in New York is more pleasant than many would envision, The smallest bud and a few rays of sunshine after a long winter mean so much more in this giant gray city than they do on the plains. And so it was on the evening of April 8^th the spirits were buoyed as we looked forward to the ELF, (Educational Legacy Fund) Ten Years of Giving annual Interior Design student scholarships.