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EXHIBITION: HD BOUTIQUE Highlights from HD Boutique An intimate setting plays host to one-of-a-kind products and motivating conference sessions A clean profile and attractive curves define the Lena Chair from the Grand Rapids Chair Company. The sleek seat and back are formed from 11 layers of beech wood veneer, and can be finished in a natural lighter hue or stained black. Detailing shines through in the exposed wooden butt joints and adjoining pegs. Reader Service No. 240 Betona’s Flexible Concrete Tile is a pliant, lightweight surfacing material made of 50 percent post-consumer glass from fluorescent lighting tubes. Curing is done at room temperature and foregoes the use of kilns for an incredibly low-energy production process. Tiles can be produced to appear like wood grain, ceramic, stone, or concrete and colors, textures, and patterns can be customized at any order size. Reader Service No. 241 Approximately 4,000 hospitality designers, architects, property owners and operators, developers, and specifiers converged on the Miami Beach Convention Center in September for Hospitality Design (HD) Boutique. Presented on a more intimate scale than its sister show, HD Expo (to be held in Las Vegas May 15–17, 2013), HD Boutique 2012 offered attendees networking opportunities and an in-depth look at products from more than 500 exhibitors including furniture, lighting, textiles, and flooring, a handful of which are covered in these pages. For the 2012 keynote conversation, Hospitality Design Editor in Chief Michael Adams interviewed celebrated designer Alexandra Champalimaud, who has recently been in the spotlight for her renovation of New York’s Waldorf=Astoria. The project was part of the 28 presentation, along with topics on the importance of education in design and the changing definition of luxury. (Read more on contractdesign.talkcontract.com.) Hospitality Design’s Wave of the Future designers—young but accomplished visionaries—were honored: Alan Barr, CHADA Asia; Ave Bradley, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants; Andrew Cohen and Jeremy Levitt, Parts and Labor Design; Oliver John Palmer Michell, UXUS; Tim Mutton and Jo Sampson, Blacksheep (featured in Contract, April 2012); and Foreman Rogers, tvsdesign. The show returns to Miami Beach as HD Americas, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, September 25–26, 2013. —EMILY HOOPER contractdesign.com OctOber 2012 http://talkcontract.contractdesign.com/ http://www.contractdesign.com

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Contract - October 2012
Contents
Editorial
Industry News
Exhibition: HD Boutique
Product Focus: Take a Hint
Product Briefs: Health and Wellness
Dale and Frances Hughes Cancer Center
Los Angeles Center for Women’s Health
Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation
Healthcare Environment Awards
Kaleida Health, Clinical and Medical Research Building
Old Town Recovery Center
Baystate Medical Center
Legacy Health Randall Children’s Hospital
Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Brooklyn Infusion Center
Community Hospital @ Yishun
Mercy Medical Center Rooftop Garden
Rehab + Space Center
Heart Care Center
Practice: “Next Practices” in Healthcare Design
Design: Foster + Partners Develops Master Plan for Cleveland Clinic Growth
Exhibition: Studio Gang Architects at the Art Institute of Chicago
Designers Select: Lighting
Sources
Ad Index
Renovation: Saving Lives by Updating an Icon

Contract - October 2012