by laura | Nov 8, 2011 | Business & People News
You may think you are in the design business—and you are. But you’re also in the customer service business, and often that is more important than the designs you create. Poor customer service can undermine what is otherwise an outstanding enterprise. Fabulous designs...
by laura | Nov 7, 2011 | Business & People News
The 3,000-sq.-ft. Italian pavilion at the 2012 Coverings show will be transformed into a topography-inspired piazza, as envisioned by e+i studio, a NYC-based architecture and design firm that was selected as the winner of the Ceramics of Italy exhibit design...
by laura | Nov 4, 2011 | Business & People News
As part of its effort to increase the use of recycled content and reduce energy use, Samsung recently received an upgraded Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) certification on 21 Staron solid surfaces and five Radianz Quartz recycled content products. Additionally,...
by laura | Nov 3, 2011 | Business & People News
Armstrong Cabinets will be featured in an upcoming episode of the DIY network program “10 Grand in Your Hand,” which shows homeowners how to shave up to $10,000 from their renovation or remodeling project. Armstrong Cabinets was selected by homeowners Doug and Heather...
by laura | Nov 2, 2011 | Business & People News
Smith & Fong has introduced a soy-based, formaldehyde-free adhesive system in all of its PlybooPure flooring, PlybooSport sports flooring lines, as well as its range of PlybooPure urea-formaldehyde-free bamboo plywood products. “We now have very healthy inventory...
by laura | Nov 1, 2011 | Business & People News
Design Success University (DSU), a Denver-based company dedicated to helping interior designers better market and grow their practice, is inviting design professionals to participate in its annual 2011 Interior Design Fee & Salary Survey. As an incentive, DSU will...
by laura | Oct 31, 2011 | Business & People News
Miller’s Fine Decorative Hardware of Jupiter has transformed the original home of the Trailways Bus Station into its second showroom. Designed in collaboration with Thomas M. Kirchhoff Architects, the renovation of the 70-year-old building maintains the historical...
by laura | Oct 28, 2011 | Business & People News
Duravit recently helped students from the Spitzer School of Architecture and the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY) as they completed in the U.S Department of Energy’s annual Energy Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon, which ran...
by laura | Oct 27, 2011 | Business & People News
InSinkErator recently showed attendees at the Milwaukee “Rock the Green” festival how to put food scraps to good use. The company enabled the more than 7,000 festival-goers to “give back” by sending approximately 1,200 pounds of food scraps to the local wastewater...
by laura | Oct 26, 2011 | Business & People News
During October, the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) is celebrating Kitchen & Bath Month by offering a free downloadable kitchen planner and bath planner, as well as donating products to the Storehouse of World Vision. The NKBA’s kitchen and bath...