4.14.08 | Chicago, IL | The Spring Treasure Hunt Sample Sale comes to the Merchandise Mart Design Center, 7th floor, 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, May 17-18. Luxury home furnishings including furniture, fabric, rugs, lighting, art and accessories will be on sale at up to 75% off. 

4.11.08 | High Point, NC | CA Boom East will debut at the fall 2008 High Point Market in North Carolina at The Mills Village, 1014 Mills Avenue, October 20-26. The show will focus on new, independent contemporary furnishing designers and manufacturers. www.caboom.com

4.11.08 | Chicago, IL | DreamRooms: Luxury Living Spaces will open at the Merchandise Mart Design Center, Chicago, IL, on Friday, April 25, where nine Merchandise Mart Design Center showrooms will create inspiring spaces. Each showroom will use its own furniture, fabrics, accessories and more in a room setting of their choice. The rooms include:

• Christopher Guy Harrison, Refined Repose
• Randall Loren Phelan, Tailored Luxury
• Michelle Thomas, The George Smith Common Room
• Lynn Wright, Fresh Traditions
• Holly Hunt, Modern Marrakesh
• Emily Ursini, The Foyer
• Susan Fredman, Green with Envy
• John Stark
• Pat Harker, A Timeless Retreat
  

www.merchandisemartdesigncenter.com

4.11.08 | Houston, TX | Chip Heath and Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle will be the keynote speakers for The International Facility Management Association'’s World Workplace 2008 Conference & Expo, —Oct. 15-17, at the Dallas Convention Center, 650 S. Griffin St., Dallas,TX. Mr. Heath Chip Heath will deliver the conference’'s opening address, based on a book he co-authored, “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,” on Wednesday, Oct. 15. Dr. Ridderstråle will close the conference on Oct. 17 with, Funky Business Forever, which looks at evolved thinking and commentary on the state of business in the latter half of this decade. www.worldworkplace.org

4.11.08 | Alexandria, VA | Coverings, coming to Orange County Convention Center, 9400 Universal Blvd., Orlando, FL, April 29-May 2, will offer a golf putting green designed with tile and stone by students in the Ceramic Engineering & Art Departments of Clemson University. Former LPGA champion Jan Stephenson will officially inaugurate the 22' long green which  includes a body of water, palm trees, contoured and rolling knolls.  

4.11.08 | Houston, TX | The International Facility Management Association and the European Facility Management Network together with the British Institute for Facility Management, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the University of Salford will hold the European Facility Management Conference 2008, June 10-11 in Manchester, U.K.  For more information or to register for the event, visit www.efmc2008.com.

4.11.08 | New York, NY | AIA New York Chapter announced the winners of its inauguaral Building Type Awards, a biennial effort to recognize excellence and innovation in specialized design fields from established and new practitioners from New York City and Massachusetts. Co-sponsored by AIANY and the Boston Society of Architects, the awards featured Educational Facilities, Sustainable Projects and Urban Design. Project winners will be on exhibit at the Center for Architecture, 536 La Guardia Place from May 1 through July. For a complete list of winners, visit: www.aiany.org/awards/

4.10.08 | White Plains, NY | Peter H. Reynolds, New York Times author/illustrator, will debut his “Make Your Mark!” and “Time to Dream” lines at SURTEX, May 18-20, 2008, at New York City’'s Jacob K. Javits Center, 655 West 34th Street, NYC. Book and print signings will take place in the artist’s booth (409), on Monday, May 19, from 10:30am-12:00pm, and 2:30-4:00pm. The artist will sign copies of the new storybook, “Little Boy”, (Simon & Schuster) –a follow-up to the New York Times No. 1 Best-Selling Children’s Book “Someday,” –both of which he illustrated in collaboration with author Allison McGhee.