Architectural Digest Home Design Show

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Published on Monday, 15 March 2010 01:22

Written by Lynne Shannon

The 9th annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show is running March 18-21, 2010 at Pier 94 in New York City. This event features the best in home products from nearly 300 established and up-and-coming brands, showcasing the latest ideas and products for the home, from furniture and lighting to kitchens and baths.

“Home design continues to be an investment for consumers,” said Giulio Capua, Vice President and Publisher of Architectural Digest. “Our latest subscriber study shows that 56% of our readers are planning to spend an average of $43,000 on home renovation projects in the next 12 months. The Show is an important resource to connect the design community with these shopping-minded homeowners.”

The Show includes such features as:

Curated tours of the floor with members of the American Society of Interior Designers

Antiques and mid-century section, presented by 1stdibs.com, the most powerful online marketplace for antiques and mid-century design.

MADE section, where visitors can browse a juried selection of limited-edition and one-of-a-kind art objects and furnishings. The section has more than doubled in size from last year to include 80 artisans.

Complimentary one-on-one consultations with such design professionals as:

Betty Wasserman Art & Interiors
David Estreich Architects
DW Design & Décor LLC
Encore Décor Interior Design
Gleicher Design Group
Hanna Weyrick Design, Inc.
JMA Architecture Interior Design
Joseph A. Berkowitz Interiors Inc.
Leslie Christian Designs
Margaret Wilson & Company Inc.
Nugent Designs, Inc.
P. Balsar Kitchen Design
Phillip Ceradini, Architect
Sally Humphreys LLC
Spector DeSouza Architects PC
Valerie Onor Ltd.

Special Events include:

Cooking demonstrations and tastings by such celebrity chefs as:

Chef Julie Taras Wallach, Tipsy Parson, with a selection of dishes showing the best of Southern cuisine.

Chef Yoel Cruz, North Square, preparing a fresh corn blini with home cured salmon, crème fraiche, caviar and chervil.

Chef Aliyyah Baylor, Make My Cake Bakery, sharing her tips on how to prepare a beautiful cake and delicious frosting with items in anyone’s pantry.

Chef Damien Brassel, Knife + Fork, preparing an Irish cured salmon with an Irish stout glaze, accompanied with sun dried tea and homemade soda bread.

Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner, Wallsé, Café Sabarsky, Blaue Gans and The Upholstery Store, preparing potato crusted scallops for the audience.

In addition, Dining by Design Table Hop & Taste Event features wine tastings paired with food from some of New York’s top restaurants.

Design seminars:

• Eco-friendly Decorating
• Small Spaces
• The Zen Home
• Fusing Two Worlds: Mixing Antiques with Contemporary Objects

Architecture & Design Film Festival Preview

Six Pound Chair, directed by Eames Demetrious
An American Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mortimer Cohen and The Making of Beth Sholom, directed by James Sanders
Calatrava: God Does Not Throw Dice, directed by Catherine Adda

There is also a panel, "Architecture & Film: From Sketches to Celluloid".

New Features this year:

The Essential Home – Visitors can get ideas to transform their own urban digs at the 1,600-square-foot model apartment inside the Show. The home presents a “real-life environment” that displays the best in contemporary design from a variety of manufacturers.

Shop the Show with a Professional – Visitors can also tour the Show floor with an industry insider. Design professionals from the American Society of Interior Design (ASID) will be available for group tours every afternoon.

Mark Levinson Mobile Showroom – The finest in residential electronics and home theater spaces are on display inside Mark Levinson’s 1,000-square-foot traveling exhibit.

National Treasures: History in the Making Exhibit – This unique exhibition of sculptural objects and functional art created from "trees with a past," some dating to the birth of our nation, lets visitors take a journey through American history, providing a tangible connection between our nation's outdoor past and its artistic future.

Whether starting from scratch or searching for that one "something" to finish a room, the Show promises to introduce visitors to something they simply have to bring home, no matter what the budget.

For more information, visit www.archdigesthomeshow.com.

Architectural Digest Home Design Show
March 18-21, 2010

Pier 94
55th Street at Westside Highway, NYC

TechMentor - In-Depth Training for IT Pros

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Published on Tuesday, 09 March 2010 01:19

Written by L E Shannon

TechMentor Orlando 2010 is being held March 8-12, 2010 at the Hilton Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. This is the only IT conference that focuses on real-world solutions that can be used now, for the technologies we already have as well as for those that are just around the corner.

There are no corporate shills trying to sell products that aren’t available, and no time is spent "teaching" technologies that don't exist yet. Attendees learn from the real gurus who are in the trenches, the authors, columnists, bloggers, and instructors that continue to make TechMentor one of the most technically powerful IT events on the planet.

At TechMentor Orlando, attendees learn:

how to use today’s server technology

At TechMentor Orlando, attendees learn:

• how to use today’s server technology
• how Microsoft’s R2 technology really works for your environment
• advanced virtualization topics, without the vendor bias
• how to prevent a major disaster with one’s Active Directory
• enhancing automation skills with PowerShell as well as common tools

and leave with dozens of new and free tools that make the job easier

Focus Topics include:

Windows PowerShell
Virtualization
Exchange and Unified Communications
Security
Deploying and Managing Windows Servers and Clients
Remote Users and Offices

Speakers include:

Don Jones, TechMentor Conference Chair
Rhonda Layfield, Setup and Deployment MVP, DDPS
Greg Shields, MVP, vExpert

Three main tracks are featured:

Deep Dive Sessions are extra-length sessions where attendees learn to automate Active Directory management, add high availability to Hyper-V, perform packet analysis on your network, or optimize Group Policy for their environment.

Prep School Sessions are exclusive half-day presentations covering complex, core topics like Windows PowerShell, Remote Desktop Services, and Deploying & Managing Windows Servers and Clients. While not required, these sessions are strongly recommended for all attendees, to help with learning valuable new skills and to give a better foundation for the main conference sessions. These are intense, information-packed sessions.

Grad School Sessions are in-depth, resume-building meetings where, in just half a day, attendees learn to support SQL server and "speak" the SQL language, deploy Windows client and server operating systems, and prepare their environment for Exchange Server 2010.

The sessions cover such material as:

Stop Working Nights and Weekends: 10 Tips You Can Immediately Implement
Windows 7 Virtual Deployment Solutions
Eliminate Application Compatibility Issues with Windows 7's XP Mode
The Windows PowerShell v2 No-Scripting Crash Course
Moving to Windows 7: From Vista or XP, Quickly, and Using FREE Tools!
Mastering System Recovery - How to Recover from any System Failure
Eliminating Malware, Inappropriate Software, and Most IT Problems with AppLocker

Between the intensive learning and the tremendous opportunities for networking and sharing with other IT peers and colleagues, this event has had high praise from previous attendees, and this year’s event promises to deliver again.

For more information, go to http://techmentorevents.com.   

TehMentor Orlando 2010
March 8-12, 2010

The Hilton at the Walt Disney World Resort
1751 Hotel Plaza Blvd
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
407-827-4000

I-deco Istanbul 2010 Fair

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Published on Wednesday, 03 March 2010 17:33

Written by L E Shannon

I-deco Istanbul Decoration and Design Fair is being held during March 3-7, 2010, at CNR Expo in Istanbul, Turkey. I-deco Istanbul is a selective event for contemporary furniture design and upscale home fashion.

Around 400 brands are exhibited each year at the show, which is attended by more than 25,000 visitors from around the world.

The event bills itself as the only event in Eurasia focusing on contemporary design and upscale decoration, and is set to exhibit recent collections of global brands and widely known designers. Professional visitors, mainly from the Middle East, the Turkic Republics, North Africa and Eastern Europe, will attend panels on topics including the future of design and decoration. Industrial-design seminars will also be held.

The exhibitors are selected by a  committee composed of opinion leaders in the field. Designers on hand in the I-DEAS Hall, the trend area where contemporary design furniture is exhibited, are:

Hans De Pelsmacker
Jason Miller
Jeff Miller
Luca Nichetto
Mikko Laakkonen
Roberto Lazzeroni
Samuele Mazza
Stefan Diez
Tomita Kazuhiko
Arif Özden
Atilla Kuzu
Aziz Sarýyer
Erdem Akan
Rasit Karaaslan
Ron Kemnitzer
Eoro Mietinen
Tanju Özelgin
Can Yalman
Aykut Erol

Young designers are selected and invited to take place in a different concept every year in Design Camp, the area for promising talent to set future trends in decoration and design.

For more information, visit www.idecoist.com. 

I-deco Istanbul 2010
March 3-7, 2010

CNR Expo
Istanbul, Turkey