Fernando Cerna has returned to Morgans Hotel Group as director of global sales. Cerna most recently served as director of sales and marketing for Grove Isle Hotel and Spa; prior to that, he worked for Morgans in operations and sales at its Delano hot ...

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Montag Windows and Flooring hired industry veteran Bill Isaak as vice president of sales. Isaak will manage the company's Dealer Network Alliance Program, including dealer development, product education and sales training. “Bill has worked in the ...

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Hansgrohe North America has promoted Lars Christensen to director of product development and Claudia Mueller to director of marketing. “We are fortunate to have people with Lars and Claudia’s qualifications already on staff to fill these important ro ...

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Symmons Industries has promoted Jeffrey Reilly to president, with direct responsibility for the company’s marketing, sales, engineering and operations groups. Reilly joined the Braintree, Mass.-based manufacturer of commercial and residential plumbin ...

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Villeroy & Boch has named Kurt Raabe to lead the U.S. office of its International Project Team, as project specification manager for the Bath and Wellness division. Designed to increase business relationships with key builders, developers, architects ...

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Photo realistic renderings have become an obligatory part of the design process. We’ve come a long way since the Max Headroom (anyone?) wire renderings that took months to develop. “What used to take days, now takes hours,” noted HungYi Wang, AIA fro ...

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At the annual James Beard Foundation Gala on May 3, New York architect Andre Kikoski was honored with the 2010 Outstanding Restaurant Design Award for his design of The Wright at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. As the founder of Andre Kikoski ...

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Stacy Garcia has launched two additions to her signature carpet collection for Lexmark, Moroccan Fretwork and Stix, recalling architectural details and playful textures respectively. Stark and striking, the Moroccan Fretwork pattern has a geometri ...

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David Romano, involved heavily with Fabric Innovations, the luxury fabric converter, passed away late March 21 2010, succumbing to a long battle with glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumor. Romano’s career consisted mainly of freight f ...

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On St. Patrick’s Day, 2010, in the gorgeous heat of the unseasonably bright sun, boutique DESIGN publisher, Michael Schneider, and I joined our friends at GLM and the advisory board of boutique DESIGN New York (BDNY), for our first super official mee ...

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