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2010 Surface Design Guide, Part 2

Each year Surface & Panel asks industry designers to share their insights on fashion trends, emerging surface designs and applications. This is is part two of the Surface Design Guide, a sampling of what is new in decor paper, powder coating and specialty surfaces and panels for 2011.

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American Flooring For An American Legend

American Flooring For An American Legend

It is not a motorcycle, it is a Harley-Davidson. And it is not a hobby, it is a lifestyle. Those under the spell of Harley-Davidson claim that the Harley provides its rider a peculiar thrill that comes from controlling a powerful beast. That the beauty of the moment is found in a combination of leather whipping in the shrieking wind and the throaty growl of the Harley engine streaking down the open road.

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Architect Spec

Architect Spec

AIA, and alumnus of Harvard Graduate School of design, is principal of the award-winning FINNE Architects. Raised in Norway and the United States, Finne established his practice in Seattle in 1994, bringing a Scandinavian understanding of craft and landscape to the Pacific Northwest.

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Digital Inkjet Flooring Perfected

Custom Flooring Designs

Digital Inkjet Flooring Perfected

Advances in digital printing technology are the new frontier of décor printing. Bipan-Astrid, a subsidiary of the Italian industrial Gruppo Frati, has taken innovation further by applying patent pending inkjet technology to digitally print décor designs directly onto the surfaces of individual HDF flooring planks.

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Lightweight Panel

For Multi-Unit Renovations, Architects Turn to Stone

For the Barton Creek Landing...

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Renew, Reuse & Redesign

HGTV's Environmentally Friendly Design

Renew, Reuse & Redesign

The maestro of HGTV’s hit design series “reDesign,” Kenneth Brown is an intuitive and innovative designer.

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Homeward Bound

Homeward Bound

How One Ecoresin is Breaking into the Residential Market

Chris Clemans, owner of Cabinet Fabrication Group (CabFab) in Syracuse, N.Y., is doing his part to shift the design paradigm. If he isn’t pairing wood and iron in antique tractor seat barstools, he’s likely manufacturing residential cabinets with materials that align closer to the future than the past.

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Laminate: Always on Top of Fashion

Laminate: Always on Top of Fashion

Specifier demand is the impetus for some of the most exciting advances in engineered materials. The versatile co-creativity of the decorative surfacing world will undoubtedly help keep HPL on top of the world of fashion moving forward.

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Ikea

Manufacturing IKEA Style

It takes commitment for an individual to build a piece of furniture, even if all the necessary lumber, hardware and clearly drawn instructions are provided in a flat packed box.

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Mardi Gras Magic

Mardi Gras Magic

Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana...

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Old Values New Opportunities

Old Values New Opportunities

The company expanded to manufacture low-pressure polyester-laminated components and in 1980 introduced the look of “real wood” in designs with fully laminated and wrapped raised panels. From there, the Sauder family established its name as a company recognized today as a pioneer in affordable engineered-wood RTA furniture.

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Slithering into a new niche

Slithering into a New Niche

As far as niche markets go, Mt. Clemens, MI-based JB Cutting Inc. has certainly found an unusual and virtually untapped one.

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Successful Furniture Company Makes Nothing

Successful Furniture Company Makes Nothing

Blu Dot might be stylish and possibly even a tad irreverent but when it comes to the furniture business, it has developed a business model that works, seriously.

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Design Guide Part 3

Surface Design Guide

Part 3

Carefully chosen products, engineered for precise performance standards, can stretch design budgets significantly without compromising the objective.

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Surface Design Guide 2009

Surface Design Guide 2009

Part 2

From the intriguing world of fashion, surface design professionals divine what colors, textures and patterns the future holds. It is a relative art. “Trend colors are developed in conjunction with other materials used in interior design, including fabrics, carpet, etc.

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surface DESIGN GUIDE 2009

Surface Design Guide 2009

Part 1

Surface design is informed by the same forces of fashion that guide style across many disciplines. Although the connection between office furniture and women’s handbags may not be obvious, they share a common lineage of thought.

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Surface Design Guide 2010 Part 3

Surface Design Guide 2010 Part 3

Each year Surface & Panel asks industry designers to share their insights on fashion trends, emerging surface designs and applications.

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Surface Design Guide 2010, Part 1

Each year Surface & Panel asks industry designers to share their insights on fashion trends, emerging surface designs and applications. This is is part one of the Surface Design Guide, a sampling of what is new in high-pressure laminate and 3-dimensional laminate surfaces for 2011.

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The (Un)real Deal

The (Un)Real Deal

Parrot Heads everywhere are toasting Jimmy Buffett’s new Margaritaville waterfront hotel in Pensacola Beach, Fla., which is slated to open in summer 2010.

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The Composite Five-Piece Door is Coming

The Composite Five-Piece Door is Coming

The classic five-piece cabinet door, with cope and stick or mortise and tenon joinery, has been around forever. With a raised or flat panel, this door style in solid hardwood is the staple of custom woodworkers and mass producers alike.

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WOW! Hi-Tech System Controls for Pop-up TVs  

WOW! Hi-Tech System Controls for Pop-up TVs

The homeowner had no intention of spending a little extra money. All he wanted was a pop-up television that could disappear into a cabinet. The installer didn't push. But what he did next helped close the sale of an upgrade that eventually led to a long line of lucrative referrals.

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