8.24.09 | East Greenville, PA | Knoll, Inc. announced that it filed a universal shelf registration
statement on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Upon being
declared effective, the shelf registration statement will permit
Knoll to offer and sell from time to time, up to $300 million of
equity, debt, or other types of securities described in the
registration statement, or any combination thereof, in one or more
future public offerings.
8.14.09 | Muscatine, IA | Allsteel Inc. tweakedits Terrace office furniture system, resulting in TerraceDNA,a better “building block” for creating a better office. Lower panel heights use less material and provide more
natural light. Storage solutions were
incorporated, including overhead units and towers that match panel
heights for a more modern aesthetic. Power and cable
management is well controlled, with options available at the base,
beltline, below work surfaces and in top channel locations.
8.24.09 | London, UK | Paul Finch was appointed the new chair of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).He will take over for Sir John
Sorrell this December. Mr. Finch is Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival, editor
emeritus of Architectural Review and Architects' Journal and has chaired CABE's London 2012 design review panel since
2006.
8.24.09 | Atlanta, GA | HOK Atlanta achieved LEED-CI Gold certification for its redesigned showroom. The 18,000 sq. ft. space on the 41st floor of One Ninety One Peachtree Tower was completed in 2008. The design employs maximum day lighting, advanced environmental
controls and 100% of its energy usage was offset with the purchase of renewable energy credits.
8.24.09 | Mumbai, India | Kyoorius Designyatra is scheduled for September 4-7 at the
Hotel Renaissance, Powai, 2 & 3b Near Chinmayanand Ash, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. The four day
conference on design in all forms, including advertising and design, architecture design and branding will feature guest speakers Sir Martin
Sorrell, Rodney Fitch, Michael Wolff, Wally Olins, and Priya Paul. The festival will
include workshops and a scheduled matchmaking session. As
part of this initiative, 14 Dutch companies will be participating in the
festival to actively seek collaborations with the Indian design
world.
8.20.09 | New York, NY | Reed Elsevier announced that it will sell off Interior Design Magazine. The company also
announced that U.S. executive Tad Smith is leaving as CEO of
Reed Business Information-U.S., effective immediately. CFO John
Poulin is now acting CEO.
Reed Business Information
Global CEO Keith Jonesrevealed a plan to divest a bulk of the
company's U.S. publications.
RBI will hold on to Reed Construction Data US & Canada, RS Means, Variety,
Marketcast,
LA411 and Buyerzone, Jones said. The rest of theU.S. titles will be
sold.
8.21.09 | Chicago, IL | IIDA announced the appointment of Carmen O'Donnell as Communications Manager. Ms. O’Donnell will oversee the
day-to-day operations of the Association’s communications initiatives and
strategic publications.
Prior to joining IIDA, Ms. O’Donnell’s communications experience included
providing editorial and project management support for Pearson Education. She served editorial posts at Imagination Publishing
and Schawk Creative Agency and she has written for a wide range of
award-winning magazines and websites, including: IIDA’s Perspective,
the Project Management Institute’s PM Network, YMCA’s
Discovery and Lowe’s professional website lowesforpros.com. Ms. O’Donnell is based in IIDA’s Chicago Headquarters in the Merchandise
Mart. She can be reached at 888.799.IIDA or codonnell@iida.org.
8.21.09 | Norcross, GA | The Greenway Group introduced a new consulting service, Tango. It focuses on two ingredients for thriving in challenging economic times: firm strategic operations and firm brand positioning. Led by Doug Parker and Bill
Wittland, Tango includes a five-phased process that yields a
documentation of both an operations and a brand plan to support an
actionable approach for each client firm.
8.21.09 | East Greenville, PA | Knoll's Generation chair is on a roll. An entourage from Knoll Indianapolis and the Detroit Regional Team set out in an RV equipped with Generation
chairs to present the award-winning task chair to dealers and designers
throughout the region. Over the next two weeks, Generation has tour dates in Lansing, Detroit,
Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville and Indianapolis.
8.21.09 | Grand Rapids, MI | Configura’s 2nd annual
CET Designer User Conference will be held Sept. 30–Oct. 1 at The
Venetian/Palazzo, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV. The conference is free to CET Designer
users and also includes a free one-year subscription to CET Designer.
CET
Designer is used to design and specify office furnishings and space. The deadline to register is September 23.
8.21.09 | East Greenville, PA |The Knoll Educational Scholarship Program announced the 30 scholarship recipients for 2009. Knoll awards beneficiaries financial assistance for a year of tuition
in a full-time undergraduate course of study at an accredited college,
university, community college or vocational technical school. Recipients are determined by Scholarship America.
8.21.09 | Zeeland, MI | Herman Miller received silver from the International Design Excellence Awards in the Design Strategy Category. The design
competition, honors design excellence in products, eco design,
interaction design, packaging, strategy, research, and concepts. Herman Miller's
Materials Program consists of two components:
physical samples that can be seen and touched and a
Materials website of more than 1,600 materials.
8.21.09 | New
York, NY | Perkins Eastman was commissioned by NYSE Euronext to design the "next generation trading floor". Renovations will be made to the floor's main room, replacing traditional broker booths with modern trading desks, new screens, and workspaces. The
refurbishment plan will continue over the next 18 months. The finished space will likely
resemble NYSE Euronext's new NYSE Amex options trading floor—also
designed by Perkins Eastman.
8.20.09 | New Milford, CT | Amy Darrah was promoted to President of Edelman Leather. Andrew Cogan, CEO, Knoll, made the announcement for its specialty businesswhich sells fine leathers to the residential, hospitality, aviation and contract office furniture markets. Ms. Darrah has been Knoll's New York regional manager since 2003 and has led her team to record sales for the region. Ms. Darrah succeeds John Edelman, a son of the Company's founders.
8.20.09 | Toronto, Canada | IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, in collaboration with DesignerPages.com, announced #IIDEX09, a Twitter-inspired installation. First launched at NeoCon Chicago, #IIDEX09 is real-time conversation with attendees, exhibitors, and show management. Anyone who
includes the hashtag “#IIDEX09” anywhere within the body of their tweet
will have their message captured and published live via displays
scattered throughout IIDEX/NeoCon Canada.
8.20.09 | Granville, NY | The Green Glue Company introduced noiseproofing clips. The clips are a mechanical decoupling noiseproofing solution that work
by separating two sides of a wall to reduce the transmission
of vibrations that cause noise. Testing shows that a wall with Green Glue
Noiseproofing Clips will allow 80% less noise than ones with older
technologies. Green Glue Noiseproofing Clips were designed with maximum low frequency
sound isolation in mind, so walls fortified with our clips will
eliminate the bass sounds most commonly found with home entertainment
and theater systems.
8.20.09 | Orleans, IN | Steve Smith returned to Paoli as
Vice President Sales, Eastern Region. Mr. Smith originally joined Paoli in 1988 as Sales Manager, Commercial
Business Systems. He also held positions as Vice President, National Accounts, and Vice President Sales, East Region.
8.20.09 | New York, NY | Parsons The New School for Design appointed Radhika Subramaniam director and chief curator of
the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. The Center, which opened in
2008, develops exhibitions and programs that place art and design in the
context of larger social and cultural issues. Ms. Subramaniam will also serve as an Assistant Professor of Art
and Design History and Theory. Ms. Subramaniam is an independent curator, editor and writer based in New
York.
8.24.09 | Orleans, IN | Paoli received certification for meeting the criteria of the
ANSI/BIFMA Furniture Emissions Standard for private offices. Components and raw materials of Revival, a freestanding furniture series and Revovle, a component-based, modular furniture series were tested and certified by Scientific Certification Systems for its desks, tables,
credenzas, returns, pedestals, bookcases, files, storage, and other products.
8.20.09 | Rancho Dominguez, CA | 9 to 5 Seating expanded its
upholstery choices for 5 Business Day Quick Ship. The program now offers 182 color ways in twenty patterns from Momentum
Textiles on made-to-order executive, conference, task and guest chairs for
shipping in five business days. Six of the eleven new patterns fall in 9 to 5
Seating's CEB Grade price for exceptional value.
8.20.09 | Green Bay, WI | KI
launched a fabric specification tool for clients and
designers to view an approved list of fabrics for KI furniture that can be upholstered. Found under each
applicable product listing on ki.com and its microsites, this tool
displays all accepted fabric options from Pallas Textiles, KI ingrade
fabrics, and customer’s own materials (COM). The approval listings include pattern name and photo, its grade, “upholsterability” status, TB
133 status, and any applicable fabric notes. KI also offers numerous products that are manufactured to meet the flammability requirements set forth by TB 133.
8.20.09 | Muscatine, IA | HNI Corporation announced that
its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of 21.5 cents per
share on its common stock.
The dividend will be payable on September 8, 2009, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 31, 2009.
8.20.09 | Chicago, IL | WAC Lighting received TED Magazine's "Best of the Best" Marketing Award for its INVISILED LED
Literature/Selling Tools.WAC Lighting's INVISILED Project Solution Kit includes
INVISIELDTape Lights and all of the components needed to complete several
installations in an easy to refill, aluminum attaché case. The Award also recognized the
INVISILED brochure, trade ads and public relations materials.
8.20.09 | Grand Rapids, MI | Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University student and faculty artwork was selected for display at the residence of Michigan Governor, Jennifer Granholm. It is the first year that all the work will be from Kendall. The Governor's Lansing Residence was designed by American architect,
Wallace Frost, and built in 1957 for Howard and Letha Sober, who
donated it to the state in 1969. The artwork will be on display from August 2009-July 2010.
8.20.09 | Berlin, Germany |
"Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model" will is on exhibit until October 4 at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstrsse 7, Berline-Kreuzberg, Germany. It is the first time that the three
German Bauhaus institutions are uniting to present a comprehensive
exhibition about the Bauhaus, the most influential school for art, design
and architecture of the 20th century.
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