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Who's Who Lauriel Leonard of DEX Industries helped raised $149,000 for the Bully Ball, which raises monies to help neglected English bulldogs in the southeast. Lanee Burns volunteers with the Boys & Girls Club of Venice where at its latest event, former Lakers center and four-time NBA Champion Shaquille O’Neal hosted a carnival for more than 300 children. NF Interiors will be featured in the May issue of Virginia Living magazine as one of top three interior design firms in the Commonwealth. The firm has also completed two Washington, DCbased restaurants: B Too and Azur. Lacey Bartels and Candace Ullal joined the WCI team as interior designers. Jay M. Pecotte was promoted to senior director of project development – hotels, Americas at Hard Rock International. From awards to promotions, see what your fellow NEWH members are up to HBA named nine new partners: Carlos Francisco and Christiane Kaalund in Los Angeles; David T’Kint and Jacques Coetzee in Singapore; Federico Masin in Hong Kong; Leo Ying Li in Shanghai; Naresh Chhabra in New Delhi; Nathan Hutchins in London; and Simon Berry at Illuminate. Trisha Wilson, founder of Wilson Associates, is transitioning away from her role as president and CEO to focus on The Wilson Foundation. She will remain on the Wilson Associates board of managers and retain her significant ownership of the firm. During the transition, executive vice presidents Cheryl Neumann and Hemanshu Parwani will act as co-presidents. In other staff news, Shawna Brinkley is now part of the international business development team, and Erline Altamira is due with her first baby in August. Theresa Carroll is Desso Carpet’s new representative in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Leslie Gieger got engaged to Christopher Wynne in February and is planning a wedding in her hometown of New Orleans for 2014. American Hotel Register has completed phase one of the La Quinta Inn & Suites at Zion Park/Springdale, Utah. Hotel Hobby Airport in Houston, and the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, Louisiana. Interior designer Courtney Cangelosi is expecting her first baby in July, and fiscal administrator Renate Penny will be retiring this summer. Architectural Concepts, Inc. (ACI) is working with Star Resort Group and John Howton on the design of Seahorse Estates Beach Club. Eric Worthington is now director of national sales at Astoria Compass out of Pasadena, California; Patricia Muscarella has joined the company’s project management team in Pompano Beach, Florida, as has Lois Schoonmaker as project manager coordinator. Benjamin West is working on the Affinia 50 New York, Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, the Loews Annapolis Hotel, Maryland, Loews Coronado Bay Hotel, San Diego, and the W City Center Chicago. Celia Fitch joins the company as OS&E project director/team leader, and Joseph Eikelberner has been named CFO. Francie H. Kelley has released her second CD Where Do You Want To Go Today? Jenny Duran of Strategic Hospitality Group gave birth to Grayson in December. Montgomery Roth Architecture and Interior Design is working on the Golden Nugget Biloxi, the Hilton 8 www.newh.org Republic Furniture Mfg., Inc. is celebrating its 50th anniversary of manufacturing custom upholstery for the hospitality and design community. Some recent projects include the suites at Borgota Hotel in Atlantic City, the king guestrooms at Bellagio in Las Vegas, and the Veladora Restaurant at Rancho Valencia. Dory D’Arcy is Ulster Carpets’ new contract sales manager. The company took part in the UK’s largest showcase of wool as the Campaign for Wool launched Wool House in the West Wing of Somerset House in London in March. A range of York Wallcoverings, distributed by MDC and Tri-Kes, have been certified to the NSF/ American National Standard for Sustainable Wallcoverings (NSF/ANSI 342). NSF/ANSI 342: Sustainability Assessment for Wallcoverings Products is a result of a Wallcoverings Association (WA) initiative to drive continual improvement in environmental sustainability and social responsibility. ❙❘❚ http://www.newh.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NEWH - Summer 2013

NEWH - Summer 2013
Table of Contents
News
Who’s Who
Sustainability: Point of View
Conference Roundup
Q&A: Lynn Fisher
Q&A: Mary Ann Thornam
Have You Seen?
Product Know How
On the Scene
NYLO Dallas South Side
Renaissance Baton Rouge Hotel
Save the Date
New Members
Partner Pro
Ad Index

NEWH - Summer 2013