New look for the office Fern
Haworth’s University Avenue showroom hosted a launch party for the company’s new flagship task chair, Fern. With no hard outer frame, the chair has a central, spinal-curved lattice to provide back support.; the lattice’s shape evokes the proverbial office plant. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------
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1—Kourtney Rapp and Jessy Helmer (in Haworth’s Window seat), designers, Straticom; and Kim Huynh, sales rep at textiles supplier Momentum Group. 2—Front: Isabelle Talbot, principal, Ray Design; Tracey Sullivan, director, business transition and move management services at corporate real estate firm CBRE. Rear: In8 Design’s Katherine Golas, interior designer, and Michel Arcand, principal; and Joe Trozzo, Ray Design principal. 3—Rob Sannella, consultant, HOK; Susan Carpenter, director of business development, Eastern Canada, Haworth; Ashley Plummer, project co-ordinator at commercial real estate firm JLL; Doug Martineau, VP sales Canada, architectural interiors North America, Haworth; and Michelle McLaughlin, client development, JLL. 4—Haworth’s Cheryl McCarthy, global accounts manager; Robert Ryl, senior business development manager; Jody Goodenough, senior A&D rep; Lorraine Calleja, senior business development, strategic accounts; LeiLei Sun Kendrew, A&D market manager; Lina Martinez, senior business development, manager, Haworth Collection; and Nicole Clancy, senior business development manager.
Viva Italia!
The Thompson Landry Gallery’s Cooperage Space in the historic Distillery District was the setting for Italia for Contract, a two-day exhibition and seminar series featuring the latest from Italian contract furniture companies Crassevig (seating), Fantoni (office furniture, pre-finished flooring and acoustic panels), Frag (leather furniture), Kenius (concrete), Molaro (windows and doors) and Moroso (furniture and accessories) in co-operation with IIDEXCanada. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1—Nancy Relihan and Associates’s Natasha Cunningham, business strategy, and the eponymous Nancy, whose firm reps contract furniture makers to the A&D community. Stefano Spessotto, at right, and Giuseppe Avesani, seated in Moroso’s Take a Lion for a Walk chair designed by Alfredo Haberli, are partners and co-owners of Ontario Moroso distributor Black Bread and Jam. 2—Federica di Fonzo, owner of leather furniture company Frag; Carlo Piemonte, Italia for Contract director; and Francesco Crassevig, owner of his eponymous furniture company. 3—Andrea Di Miele, export manager at windows and doors maker Molaro, and Johane Deignan, director of marketing, conference and sponsorship at IIDEXCanada.dolorem ella ne offic tet eaquat harionsed experferro voluptatem quis sequae dolorum rat.
Creative Matters at Weavers Art
At the Weavers Art store and showroom, Custom rug designers Creative Matters launched their latest collections, Perennial and Arctic, including Crystallize, which was nominated for the 2016 Best Modern Design Superior award at carpet show Domotex in Hannover, Germany. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------
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1—In front of a Creative Matters rug: industrial designer David Dennis, renowned for his City of Toronto post-andring bike stand; the eponymous owner of Gregor Herman Glass; Carol Sebert, Creative Matters president; Alison Jessamine, sales associate, Nienkamper; and Christopher Nelson, president, Nelson Garrett Lighting. 2—In front of a Creative Matters rug: Weavers Art’s Michael Gagliardi, marketing director; Cindy Murphy, business development director; Michael Pourvakil, president and founder; Ali Zaker, sales associate; and David Fathi, sales manager. 3—Ali McMurter and Renée Isaac-Saper, senior designers; Kayla Bortolotto, junior designer; and Leah Phillips, art director, Creative Matters. 4—Tara Finlay and Linda Claire Keachie, design associates at interior design firm Robyn Clarke, with Leah Sherwood, design consultant, Sherwoodesign.
Augustus Jones
Augustus Jones, the showroom and retail store that opened in December offering European lines of indoor and outdoor furniture, held a pre-summer fête. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1—Renan Keraudran, Paris-based marketing director at La Boite Concept, maker of compact integrated hi-fi systems sold by Augustus Jones (AJ); AJ co-owner Cliff Smith, Camille Lalitte, export sales manager at French outdoor furniture maker Fermob; AJ co-owner Jacques Trédille; and Coralie Claes, president of Belgian furniture maker Vincent Sheppard. 2—David Robinson, president, Print Maximum; Kathleen Vuurman, owner and designer, Outerspaces Garden Design; Nanci Giovinazzo, owner of restaurant design firm Food Forward Consulting; and painter Robert Blonski. 3—In front of a pendant light fixture from Paris-based Atelier Clarisse Dutraive: Brandon Wraith, server at Richmond Station restaurant; David Ryan, industrial designer and co-owner of furnishings maker Anony.ca; and Mark Haagsma, co-principal at L2 Design Studio, La Boite’s Concept’s Canadian distributor. 4—Joe Mancuso, principal, Mancuso Homes; Anony.ca principals Christian Lo and Dragan Vuko; and artist Tania Love, who created the ocean-inspired backdrop using a cyanotype (a.k.a. blueprint) photographic printing process on thin, strong Japanese kozo paper.
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