by laura | Sep 15, 2010 | Business & People News
ASID’s New York Metro’s Design Week 2010 is kicking off September 21 with presentations, seminars, panels and hands-on workshops to inform and equip designers with the tools for reshaping and reinvigorating their businesses. The event’s “Imagine University”...
by laura | Sep 14, 2010 | Business & People News
Cosentino is launching its first Cosentino Center in North America in Anaheim, CA. Opening with a reception on Wednesday, September 15, 2010, the new center hopes to enhance both the trade and consumer experience. The Cosentino Center concept already exists in Europe,...
by s98challan | Sep 13, 2010 | Business & People News
What surfaces go with a warm neutral sink? Blanco’s Design Council, a group of kitchen designers who also blog, were recently surveyed on which countertop surfaces they would match with Blanco’s new Silgranit II Biscotti color. It’s an interesting question that—as...
by laura | Aug 22, 2010 | Business & People News
Norman Polsky, Hon. FASID, known for his philanthropy, which included grants and gifts to the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Foundation, passed away on September 2, 2010, at the age of 86. The founder of Fixtures Furniture, Polsky and his wife Elaine...
by laura | May 4, 2010 | Business & People News
Top Master Inc., a countertop fabricator, has been recognized by Habitat ReStore of Kansas City as one its largest contributors. Habitat ReStore accepts donations of new and used building materials from individuals, contractors and retailers. The materials are then...
by laura | Apr 2, 2010 | Business & People News
One of the prime areas of concern for kitchen and bath companies with respect to the successful performance of a signed contract is focused around manufacturing and shipping delays, which can create liability and are rather commonplace throughout the industry....
by laura | Apr 2, 2010 | Business & People News
Hastings Tile & Bath has entered into an exclusive agreement to distribute the Sonia line of bath products in North America and the Caribbean. Hastings will maintain the Sonia distribution and customer support facility in Sunrise, FL, and many of Sonia’s existing...
by laura | Apr 1, 2010 | Business & People News
Fagor recently won a Silver ADEX Award for its Black Crystal hood. The ADEX awards program recognizes outstanding product design in furniture, fixtures and finishes for the design trade. The winners are determined by an anonymous panel of professionals representing a...
by laura | Mar 31, 2010 | Business & People News
Is this what it means to be in recovery? Are we in the throes of a major paradigm shift that will affect the way we spend for the next decade? Or are we slyly awaiting a return to a perceived norm and, in essence, the “ok” to return to our bad behaviors? This year...
by laura | Mar 25, 2010 | Business & People News
Although a self-described “modernist at heart,” John Gidding, star of HGTV’s Curb Appeal: The Block, likes to take an organic approach to his design work. Not only does he enjoy creating spaces with “curvilinear lines and anthropomorphic shapes that mimic the bodies...
