CTI at Early Mercy Furniture dealer CTI Working Environments celebrated the 10th anniversary of its CTI Signatures Ceramic Painting and Auction, whose proceeds fund ARIDO scholarships, by inviting members of the A&D community to paint ceramic plates. The two painting nights at the Haworth showroom, and another at Tayco’s showroom, drew 140 designers. Then the plates were auctioned at a party at Early Mercy nightclub on King Street West. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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1—Dawn Davis, supervisor, Boys and Girls Club of East Scarborough; Suzette Robinson, accounts receivable supervisor at Bayshore Home Health; Kimona Lim, owner, Rave Noir Salon; and Janice McRae, executive assistant, CTI Working Environments. 2—Jason Henderson, principal at furniture dealer Henderson Resource Group; Tyler Finders, new business development manager, CTI; Blair Henderson, principal, Henderson; Brooke Anderson, designer at NORR; Naji Mourani, interior designer, 2K1M, and project co-ordinator, A&D, planning department, St. Michael’s Hospital. 3—Comley van Brussel Design and Management designer Maria Gvozdeva; and principal Kathy van Brussel; CTI president Warren Somers; Carol Syrnyk, partner, Designstream; Dave Turner, VP business development, CTI; and Anna Lenardich, designer, Designstream. 4—Heather Fancy, North American sales director at furniture dealer Nuans Design; and Steve Keilhauer, VP product development at his family’s seating company. 5—Haworth’s Lina Martinez, senior business development manager, Canada for the Haworth Collection; Olivia Palenstein and Leilei Sun Kendrew, design market managers; Loraine Calleja, account executive; Jody Goodenough, design market manager; Kate Fincham, area admin; and Sheryl Piedad, showroom manager. 6—Physiotherapist Faina Khan; and Comley Van Brussel Design’s Masham Khan, admin; designers Heather Varty and Nicole Czachor; and project manager Danial Ali.
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HNI Hullabaloo Founded by architectural product designer Eberhard Von Huene, NUA Office Inc. sells office furniture products by HNI (including Allsteel, HBF, Hon and Gunlocke), Humanscale and several Canadian manufacturers across Canada. Team members were on hand at the launch of the new Toronto showroom on Adelaide Street East. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1—Mike Kull, VP sales, Gunlocke; and Allsteel’s A.J. Paron-Wildes, national A&D manager; and Lisa Miller, workplace advisory. 2—Robert Hill, principal at NUA’s Ottawa office; and Dan Chong, president, HBF. 3—Ryan Moreland, strategic account executive, Humanscale; Momentum Group’s Marsha Robb, sales rep, Ontario; Margarita Ocampo, Canadian sales manager, Ontario; and Kim Huynh, sales rep, Ontario. 4—Ryan Myers, national sales manager, HNI Canada; and IBI Group’s Anibal Pinguelo, architectural technologist/project management; Jaymie Cooper, interior designer; and Alan Chakota, technician/project manager. 5—Three generations of von Huenes: NUA Office’s Eberhard, president and CEO; Beate, executive VP; and Natascha Schillinger, social media; with Tessa Cole, A&D manager, HNI Canada. 6—Victoria Horobin, principal, KBH Interior Design; and Deborah Rutherford, director, strategic workplace solutions, Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions (which, she says, is the world’s largest real estate company). 7—Donna Wood, president, Bullock+Wood Design; Fay Paterson, A&D rep, Humanscale; Anthony Scarfone and Angela Kisielewski, project designers, Bullock+Wood Design; and Nicole Powell, account development rep, Humanscale
Roche Bobois Art Project Roche Bobois celebrated the Canada 150 Art Project, an exhibition featuring the Mah Jong cushion, part of the modular sofa system of that name created by German designer Hans Hopfer for the high-end furniture company in 1971. It’s been Roche Bobois’s best-selling sofa design since 1990. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------•
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1—Roche Bobois’s Cindy Susilo, digital marketing manager; Ishak-Kristòf Fernandez, area manager, North America; Anthony Ghanem, Toronto commercial manager; Maxime Bidaud, VP finance and admin; and Lili Krnic, design consultant. 2—Barrett Architect’s Matthew Chong, project designer; and principal and architect Wayne Barrett, whose hospitality projects include the Globe Bistro on the Danforth and Landings restaurants in Ontario. 3—Featured artist Patric Cruz, whose Stepmother Tongue painting on a Mah Jong cushion was auctioned to support the Canadian Art Foundation, with bidding starting at $5,000; singer and DJ Stefana Fratila; and Nicholas Brown, manager of programing at Canadian Art, Roche Bobois’s partner for the party. 4—Monique Wood, design consultant, Roche Bobois; and Stephen Bowe, owner, Designers Transport & Services. 5—Leyla Mortazavi, gemologist, Noorah Design; Andrew Baker, design consultant, Roche Bobois; and Yalda Niknam, VP at custom-home builder DBM Homes. 6—Cambria’s Camille Hines, gallery co-ordinator; Janet Crawford, gallery manager; Andrea Perez Leon, gallery co-ordinator; and Emily Vallevand, assistant gallery manager. 7—Katie Telford, special projects co-ordinator, Interior Design Show (IDS); Olivier Fuller, principal at Erbe Fuller Art Advisory, and director of international programming and gallery relations at Art Toronto; Karl Lohnes, who commutes to Montréal to be decorating expert on TV’s Global News Morning; Catia Varricchio, strategic partnerships, and Patti Stewart, executive VP, at Informa Canada, which manages IDS and IIDEXCanada; and Emily-Jean Alexander, gallery and sponsor relations, Art Toronto. 8—George Stroumboulopoulos, TV and radio talk-show host, including CFRB’s The Strombo Show; interior designer Tracy Ternan, principal, TNT Design; Scott Lewis, executive VP at biodiesel fuel supplier Bioxcorp; and personal chef Marilou Roth.
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