7.21.08 | The weather was in the reasonable 80s for the 4^th annual First LOOK event at the New York Design Center, not like last year when the heavy morning rain was followed by an exploded steam pipe nearly in front of 200 Lexington Ave., or the year before when temperatures reach a scalding (for NYC) 107 degrees. So, we left the green, heavily wooded areas of Connecticut and, well, Queens, to venture into Manhattan to get our own first looks.

7.21.08 | Over 900 local architects and interior designers hit Chicago's Oak Street beach for the 26^th Annual Brenda Faist Associates Battle of the Design Stars beach volleyball tournament sponsored by Sedia Systems.

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?