Posts Tagged ‘New York’

Tomorrow’s Furniture: Young and Green

This year’s ICFF, North America’s biggest home furnishings event, focused on playfulness, experimentation, and earth-friendly materials
Walking into this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) — the biggest expo of home furnishings in North America — it’s hard to ignore the bright green carpet that covers the sprawling 475,700-square feet of floor space devoted to [...]

Thursday, June 1st, 2006 In General News

Eames Lounge Chair Exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design

Sometimes a chair is just a chair. But sometimes it is more: a luxury item, a symbol of authority, a refuge for mind and body, a design landmark. The Eames lounge chair — the spacious black leather and molded rosewood chair, with ottoman, that the designers Charles Eames and his wife, Ray, unveiled on national [...]

Sunday, May 28th, 2006 In General News

e-Commerce Web site Design

A-1 Websitedesign is a leading New York software company focused on delivering the best and most cost-effective solutions to our clients in areas such as e-finance, e-business, mobile solutions, telecom, data networking, etc. We also provide offshore software development and maintenance services.
A-1 Websitedesign provides solutions that facilitate business-to-business exchange networks on the internet, automating [...]

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 In General News

NHS Group Takes First Place In Web Design

Newtown High School’s IT Leadership Academy (ITLA) attended the CT Innovation Challenge at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. Twenty schools from around the state competed in seven categories. NHS won Outstanding Web Design for the second year in a row.
The students on the team are AJ Mormando, Melissa King, David King, Jonathan Graham, Joe [...]

Friday, May 26th, 2006 In General News

Grimshaw Designing New York Street Furniture

The New York City Department of Transportation recently signed a contract ordering thousands of bus shelters, newsstands, and public toilets designed by Grimshaw Industrial Design, a division of London-based Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, produced for the Spanish company, Cemusa. The deal has been approved by the city, and is expected to get final [...]

Thursday, May 25th, 2006 In Architecture, General News

Traditional interior design trade in trouble as democracy arrives

Note to Mario Buatta: The world as you know it is over.
Your clients may still value your expertise, but as far as access to exclusive sources of fabrics and furniture goes, they now have other options.
It is a development that Buatta, the high-profile decorator, has resisted.
“To-the-trade should remain to-the-trade,” he said recently, speaking of a [...]

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 In General News

Brazilian Design Grows in New York

Espasso, a fast-growing gallery of Brazilian design, will move its Long Island City, New York shop to TriBeCa in Manhattan this September. Espasso, “space” in Portuguese, is owned by Brazilian design expert Carlos Junqueira. In 2002, the New York showroom became the first U.S. gallery dedicated to Brazilian design from the 1930s through the present [...]

Friday, May 19th, 2006 In General News

Gunlocke Redesigns NY Showroom

Earlier this month, wood contract furniture manufacturer Gunlocke opened its newly renovated 10,000-square-foot New York showroom, designed by architect Peter Conant. The space features Gunlocke’s existing collections, plus newly launched lines including Menu casegoods, Alti executive seating, and Stretto side chairs. This will be the first viewing of the new lines before they officially launch [...]

Friday, May 19th, 2006 In General News

WebCollage Announces Next-Generation Brand Showcase Design for Retailers

WebCollage, a leading provider of Web content integration solutions for manufacturers and their channel partners, today announced the implementation of its third-generation brand showcase design that enables retailers to become “one stop shops” and allows online customers to locate not only complete information for product purchases, but also additional educational content on related topics. Incorporating [...]

Friday, May 19th, 2006 In General News

MILANO MADE IN DESIGN: Traveling Exhibit Celebrates Milan’s Limitless Creativity and Manufacturing Prowess

The iconic city of Milan continues to be recognized as one of the world’s most powerful leaders in the design, fashion and manufacturing industries. On May 18th, the Province of Milan and Milan Chamber of Commerce will unveil an innovative and inspirational traveling exhibit, MILANO MADE IN DESIGN, designed to take New Yorkers through an [...]

Thursday, May 18th, 2006 In General News

First2Print Donates Digital Printing Services to Parsons The New School for Design Annual Benefit and Fashion Show Honoring Oscar de la Renta

First2Print (www.first2print.com), a leader in large-format fabric printing services, collaborated with Parsons The New School for Design for the school’s 58th Annual Benefit and Fashion Show honoring Oscar de la Renta. The fashion show featured the best collections of Parsons graduating fashion design students — with one of the top graduating senior projects digitally printed [...]

Thursday, May 18th, 2006 In General News