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who’s who From new companies to awards, see what your fellow NEWH members are up to Jerry Hruby-Holy Lusive Decor’s Celeste Chandelier Barlow Tyrie’s Cape May Show House Kathryn Stenger Elizabeth Sommerville and Quinn Mayer, Zoli Kovacs, and Mitch Zerg Jim Bauschka Ansley Franke and MirrorMate’s pre-framed mirror August Voss NEWH will be posthumously honoring Jerry Hruby-Holy, founder of Unilight, with the fifth ICON of Industry Award. It will be presented to his son Michael Holy at the IH/M&RS Gold Key Breakfast in November. Jennifer Davis and Megan Hagood, Design Directions International; Miranda Calhoun and Pam Loomis, FA Hunter & Associates; and Stephanie McElhannon and Caroline Foster 5K run/walk on Miami Beach, will be held September 13th. To register for the event ($35), or to make a donation, visit http://pledgie.com/campaigns/5109 Republic Furniture Mfg., Inc. WBE recently Elizabeth Sommerville, of the Nielsen Company/Hospitality Design, married Jim Bauschka on June 6th. Glave & Holmes Associates, now has five new LEED AP interior designers, was hired to renovate the lobby restroom and Bull Durham Bar at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, North Carolina, and Gary Inman, director of the hospitality studio, spoke at NeoCon. As part of its free, ongoing career displacement workshop series for the architecture and design community, the Mohawk Group is partnering with Hospitality Design (HD) magazine for a special Re:work event in Miami on September 11th. The all-day event will cover resume writing, career coaching, interview skills, and financial planning. Courtesy of HD, all participants will receive free admission to the 2009 HD Boutique Exposition & Conference (HD Boutique), held September 14-15 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Register at www.themohawkgroup.com/rework. moved into new and expanded production facilities in Vernon, California. Contact: 4421 East 49th Street, Vernon, CA 90058. Phone number and email remain the same: 323.235.2144; rosensofrepublic@aol.com. Virginia chapter member Kathy Thomas created kpct, LLC to represent multiple lines for hospitality and commercial interiors. She currently represents Contract Décor International (CDI), Dunbar and Cullum carpet, Graphic Encounter, Samuelson Furniture, and Groove Leather. kpct@comcast.net and owner of Jacques Bouvet et Cie, Limited, his signature line of decorative fabrics, died of heart failure on April 25th. Besides being wellknown in design circles in Los Angeles where his fabric collection is headquartered, he supported a variety of charities for AIDS services, human rights, and wildlife preservation. Helen Meisel of reSOURCE group won the drawing to Valencia, Spain, at the ASID Hospitality Pavilion at Dwell on Design LA Conference. The trip is sponsored by the Embassy of Spain Trade Commission to attend the Interiors from Spain Trade Show, Feria Habitat Valencia, from September 19-24. Bruce Wowk, an independent sales rep in the Washington, DC area, announces his first grandson: Jackson Wowk born May 26th. Longtime NEWH supporter, Steve McCloud, recently announced that his company, US Vinyl Manufacturing, will sponsor eight designers to the Atlanta Chapter: Stephanie McElhannon and Caroline Foster from the Van Dresser Company; Miranda Calhoun and Pam Loomis from FA Hunter & Associates; Jennifer Davis and Megan Hagood from Design Directions International; as well as two students interning at DDI, Rachael Rimer and Bethany Inman. Michael Schneider, president of Boutique Media Group and Helen Marcus of Zenith International, recently founded Hospitality Cares, a non-profit organization that targets hospitality professionals who have experienced misfortune through either a job loss or a housing/medical condition. The first event, a 6 september 2009 www.newh.org tel 800.593.NEWH Jacques Desire, 58, noted fabric designer Dave Hartman was recently hired by Structures & Interiors which designs and builds a wide range of medical offices, and also passed his LEED AP exam. www.structures-interiors.com Barlow Tyrie, Inc. is participating in the 2009 Cape May Show House that will benefit the Mid Atlantic Center of the Arts which will run from July 5th until January 3rd. Coast to Coast Designs recently completed installing furniture at the 91-room Gansevoort Turks + Caicos, a Wymara Resort, designed by > DADA and SWA. http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/5109 http://www.themohawkgroup.com/rework http://www.structures-interiors.com http://www.newh.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NEWH - September 2009

NEWH - September 2009
Contents
News
Sustainability: POV
Design 101
Case Study: Project
Case Study: Product
Have you Seen?
Product Know-How: Fabrics
On the Scene
Cover Story: NLP
Project: Langham Shanghai
Project: Founding Farmers
New Members
Save the Date
Partner Profiles

NEWH - September 2009