3.3.08 | Indiana Furniture, another contract furniture company based in the high-work-ethic town of Jasper, IN, opened its first showroom last week in the New York Design Center. Jasper, as many know, is a veritable West Michigan in southern Indiana because of its concentration of contract furniture manufacturers: Kimball, National, Jofco, Versteel, Jasper Chair, Indiana Furniture, etc. The attraction is a highly dedicated work force and a lot of experience with wood. If you have your own airplane, you might want to check it out. Jasper (the sister city to Pfaffenweiler, I am told) has been listed as the 25th best small town in America. Scott Schwinghammer, Versteel, tells of many jolly times there, but I’'ve only seen the Schnitzelbank Restaurant, and they weren'’t even singing German beer drinking songs.

1.21.08 | Haworth's new Toronto showroom occupies 13,000 square feet on the first and second stories of a choice corner location at University Avenue, the city's main processional axis, and Adelaide Street. It sits a few blocks from the fabled intersection of King and Bay, where the highrise-architecture shootout (Mies van der Rohe, I. M. Pei, Edward Durrell Stone, Webb Zerafa Menkes Housden) of the bank-bank headquarters demarcates Canada's financial nerve center. The location offers direct access to the University subway line and the PATH underground pedestrian network, as well as major traffic arteries.

12.3.07|  Allsteel Inc. opened a new Resource Center in Toronto, located at The Boiler House, 90 Fraser Ave. in Liberty Village, designed by Canadian design firm figure3. The Resource Center is located in the historic Toronto Carpet Factory in the city's Liberty Village neighborhood.