6.30.08 | After fighting the Merchandise Mart’'s first floor NeoCon crowds, becoming lost in an east stairwell and finally catching the correct elevator, I found myself in the sanctuary of IIDA’'s new 5^th Floor Headquarters. IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO, Cheryl Durst, herself, was there to welcome me into the new LEED-CI Gold space designed by Kendall Wilson, principal of Washington D.C. based firm Envison.

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.

5.5.08 | There’'s no doubt in anyone’s mind that Charles and Ray Eames left an astounding legacy to the world of design. From film to product design, this couple created timeless pieces that still resonate to fresh minds today. This year, IIDA Northern California chose to honor them at the 2008 Pioneers in Design event. Charles’ daughter Lucia Eames, and her daughter Llisa Demetrios came to the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco to represent their family legacy, and to share with us many pictures of the couple and their house that had never before been made public.

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.