CPA's vision for the industry
CPA’s new president, Andy O’Hare, on unifying and sharing the industry’s climate-friendly message.
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Kenn Busch
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Furniture’s positive impacts on human health and wellness
Designers and consumers are thinking more these days about healthy products.
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Kenn Busch
Two Spanish designers turn the house inside out
The Spanish design team MUT reimagined living for the Das Haus exhibit at IMM Cologne 2020.
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Kenn Busch
What’s next? Observations from the Cologne International Furniture Fair
As the world’s most international furniture event, IMM Cologne always looks forward, and always with a nod to the recent past. New ideas, trends and movements are explored, of course, built on inspiration from recent materials and design fairs. The result for furniture producers: A fantastic way to connect concepts from last year’s Interzum and SICAM fairs with furniture now on the market from around the world.
Here’s an overview of the event:
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Kenn Busch
What’s our sustainability story? ‘Waste wood made good’
It’s time we told the truth about composite wood decorative panels.
If you make products from composite wood panels, we have to talk.
We – North America’s producers of particleboard, MDF and decorative TFL panels – have a confession to make. There are some things we haven’t been telling you, about who we really are and what we actually do.
So, in the spirit of “radical transparency,” we’re ready to come clean.
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Kenn Busch
Material developments in closet design
Lighter colors and texture play are leading surface selection.
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Kenn Busch
Interzum trends: realism, function and performance
Interzum 2019 focused on the small things that make the biggest difference.
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Kenn Busch
Materials: Be ready for pretty good design
A very engaged commercial interior designer recently told me while discussing training session project: “Don’t just tell me what the trends are. Tell me why they are.”
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Kenn Busch
Five levers to minimize furniture materials' environmental impact
As consumers ask about materials in wood products, analyst Kenn Busch offers a new take on sustainable manufacture. Busch addresses the 2019 Executive Briefing Conference in San Jose next month.
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Kenn Busch
