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Hitting the road with Geberit Mapress for On Tour 2013
In a bid to share the many benefits of its Mapress pressfitting system with even more installers, the Geberit Landrover and trailer was been re-fuelled and is hit the road once again, as it went On Tour to suppliers up and down the country earlier this month. Read More | View Original Article
The White Hart: A Historical Pub With Rooms Is Reborn
The White Hart, a Grade II listed coaching inn near Chippenham has recently re-opened following a major makeover, transforming it into a haven for locals and visitors to enjoy total peace and relaxation. Perfectly positioned overlooking a picturesque babbling trout stream, the traditional 16th century stone-clad pub now offers stylish and luxuriously appointed rooms alongside a welcoming pub with bags of quintessential English character. Read More | View Original Article
If You Build It, They Will Come
UK hotels, pubs, restaurants and cafes urged to “do their bit for nature” Anyone who enjoys the great outdoors has grown used to nature around them. Joyous birdsong, rustling hedgerows and butterflies in parks and gardens are all very much part of the enjoyment of sitting outside in the UK’s many great pubs, restaurants, hotels and cafes. Read More | View Original Article
DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre Opens After £5m Renovation
Following the completion of a comprehensive refurbishment project, DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre announced its opening. The public areas and each of the hotel’s 201 guestrooms have been transformed, bringing them up to DoubleTree by Hilton’s upscale standards with a new design concept that pays tribute to the city’s proud industrial and seafaring heritage. Read More | View Original Article
Star-Studded Evening Marks the Grand Opening of Iconic JW Marriott Essex House
On Tuesday 30th April 2013, JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts celebrated the grand opening of JW Marriott Essex House New York. Read More | View Original Article
Clockwise from top: Anne Frank, Kaler Abdolah, Vincent Van Gogh Dutch creative director Raphael Dahan has nearly 20 years of experience as a digital artist and photo retoucher, and he demonstratess his expert hand in a series of images of books that are intended to look like busts... which is to say that you the images are remarkably photorealistic renderings, easily mistaken for photos of actual books that have been carved to resemble faces. Read More | View Original Article
Las Vegas winter market changing to Sunday-Thursday schedule
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas Market organizers have adjusted the dates of the winter 2014 market to a... Read More | View Original Article
Papercraft Car Modeling Skillz
While there's a tendency among designers to obsess over pens, we all know that you can draw with just about anything; Leonardo da Vinci was scratching stuff out with a rock on a slate, for chrissakes. Read More | View Original Article
Another day, another design, another multi-hour stretch to focus focus focus on your design work. If you're like me, you vacillate between needing the total silence of an empty studio and the busy-ness of working in a cafe. But what if you need to be in the studio? Perhaps all the cafes are closed, or perhaps you have a few hours before your next meeting, and it doesn't make sense to pop out for a quick cafe work session. Read More | View Original Article
Former La. furniture store owner pleads guilty to fraud
BATON ROUGE, La. — The former operator of a furniture store here has pleaded guilty to wire... Read More | View Original Article
Circle K Furniture owner Jose Lantigua dies
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jose Lantigua, owner of retailer Circle K Furniture here, died on April... Read More | View Original Article
ThinkGeek Wants You To Be Their New Graphic Illustrator Intern in Fairfax, Virginia
wants a Sr. Visual Designerin Fairfax, Virginia ThinkGeek is looking for a dynamic graphic illustrator intern with pop-culture sensibilities and wicked cool design styling. Read More | View Original Article
Grace Hotels Celebrates Expansion onto Five Continents with Entry into North Africa
Grace Hotels, the award-winning boutique hotel group, is proud to announce its entry into the North African region with the acquisition of the acclaimed Les Terres M’Barka, a luxury boutique hotel located near the village of Tamesloht, just 22 kilometres south west of Marrakech. The hotel will become known as Grace Marrakech. Read More | View Original Article
Wandsworth Launches Jung KNX Smart Panel
Jung’s exclusive UK distributor, Wandsworth Group, has launched the KNX Smart Panel, a stylish, wall-mounted display device for management, control and monitoring of KNX intelligent building installations. Read More | View Original Article
More Repurposed Speakers: Soundpauli
So yesterday, what you see above happened in the studio. I guess the photographer really wanted to buzz the model in, and somehow shattered the plastic housing in his eagerness. The $18 part was easy to replace, and on the backside of the old one you can see a simple four-wire hookup and the speaker: Read More | View Original Article
Sword & Plough: Repurposing Military Materials and Individuals
You've gotta love this company's name: Taken from the biblical anti-war phrase "...they shall beat their swords into ploughshares," NYC-based Sword & Plough takes ex-military materials—and people—and turns them towards the production of useful civilian goods. Read More | View Original Article
Ethan Allen Receives 2013 Vermont Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence
DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 2, 2013-- Ethan Allen (NYSE: ETH) is proud to announce that the company has been selected to receive a 2013 Vermont Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. The Vermont Governor’s Awards were established in 1993 to recognize the efforts of Vermonters to conserve and protect natural resources, prevent pollution, and promote environmental sustainability. “We are proud of our commitment to environmental protection and we take it very seriously both locally and globally,” said Ethan Allen Chairman, President and CEO, Farooq Kathwari. Read More | View Original Article
Notes from the Field: Solar Panels in Rural Uganda
Around California, I've been seeing more and more solar panels. Solar panels installed subtly on people's homes. Solar panels on wireless keyboards. Solar panels atop lights. In such a sunny state, these solar panels make perfect sense. Read More | View Original Article
Abbyson Living donates furniture to Hurricane Sandy victims
LOS ANGELES — Abbyson Living has donated furniture to aid victims of last year's Hurricane... Read More | View Original Article
eIntent: Data covering online furniture buyers and shoppers
This exclusive eIntent report focuses on three key online areas: the consumer buying online,... Read More | View Original Article
Design Products That Protect Riders at Icon Motosports in Portland, Oregon
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Lessons in How to Play With Fire
At Jack Sanders’s Heavy Metal camp, welding is the medium but adventure is the mode. Read More | View Original Article
Designing Small Tables for the Big Leagues
Chris Hardy, a 20-something designer, talked his way into the opportunity to make furniture for Design Within Reach. Read More | View Original Article
Bespoke Chandeliers Inspired by Bees
A light festooned with crystals takes up residence near the palace of Versailles. Read More | View Original Article
MGallery Celebrates the Arrival of Two New Addresses in Milan
MGallery, Accor’s collection of high-end hotels, now counts three exceptional establishments in Milan: Grand Visconti Palace Hotel, Uptown Palace Hotel and the Grand Hotel Villa Torretta. Located in the very heart of Europe's design and fashion capital, these two new properties, reflect the brand’s dynamic expansion via franchises and in Italy, MGallery’s second largest network. Two other hotels recently joined the brand’s Italian network: Villa Olmi Hotel in Florence and La Griffe Hotel in Rome. Read More | View Original Article
Revamp, Expansion and a New Face at Decorus
Always thinking about the future, Decorus has spent the last couple of months having a spring clean. We are revamping our showroom, expanding our product range and we are adding new people to our company to enable us to provide you with the best possible service. Read More | View Original Article
