7.14.08 | Jeff Brock is the general manger of the Columbus, OH, office of LOTH, a Cincinnati-based Steelcase dealership led by J.B. Buse, Chairman and CEO, and Rick Mader, president. Last week, Mr. Brock proudly opened LOTH'’s new Columbus Resource Center during a ribbon-cutting and open house at 855 Grandview Avenue, Grandview Heights, OH.

6.30.08 | The IIDA celebrated five outstanding projects at it's annual awards banquet, COOL. These projects were chosen for recognition out of over three hundred submissions, –and the firms represented in the top five really put the “international” in IIDA.

6.30.08 | Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc., creators, marketers and managers of the NeoCon shows, cancelled NeoCon Xpress 08, previously scheduled for October 2, 2008.

6.30.08 | Chuck Gould was toast, and he knew it. But brave man that he is, he marched forward. Mr. Gould is (was) the Kimball Office Regional Manager, New York/New Jersey. Last Thursday he was found murdered in Kimball Offices Park Avenue South showroom. Who done it?

6.23.08 | This year, with high fuel prices on everyone's mind, we asked companies where their products were made. We were surprised, and delighted, to discover that between 70% and 80% of all commercial textiles are manufactured in the USA. It turns out that there are many creative, facile mills scattered all over the country and they are doing a healthy business despite the fact that two major domestic mills went under last year.

6.23.08 | This year we decided to present carpet in a way similar to our textile review, with a survey piece giving our readers a broad overview. If we've left someone out, it is not intentional; just let us know and we will address the matter.

6.23.08 | The exhibits on NeoCon floors 7 and 8 were robust with diversity from furniture systems to design schools to chair casters. Given the dense, small-booth format, some of the following products and companies could have been easily overlooked. Here is a sampling of some of the gems we found among the chaos.

6.23.08 | The seminars at NeoCon give us a pop look at things we really ought to know, but nevertheless persistently elude either fluent familiarity or comfortable expertise. So sign up we do and in we go. The air conditioning is good and acoustics work well as long as speakers use the mikes properly and you don't sit too close to the doors. There seats are often too close together, but this too has the value of tacitly reminding us to renew our vows of weight loss.