Embracing the Natural Look of Wood Grain in Furniture

In current interior design practice, functionality is a factor in furniture vetting and selection. But other decision drivers are also at work. Topping the list is the debate between utilizing stain coloring and embracing the organic, natural look of wood grain in furniture. Until recently, stain coloring has been the deciding factor in what typically are big-ticket […]

Words on Wood Podcast Returns for Fourth Season

The American Hardwood Export Council and design journal Disegno series is back for another year. Lots of people in the wood industry talk about wood. But these people really talk about wood. Words on Wood, the podcast hosted by the American Hardwood Export Council and Disegno, the design journal, is set to return for its […]

The Pine Tree State Gets Its First Mass Timber Buildings

Maine is well known for its vast forests and wooded lands but it’s never had a mass timber building… up until now. It’s known as the Pine Tree State in recognition of its millions of acres of forestry so the recent opening of a pair of mass timber buildings on the campus of Bowdoin College […]

Ecogate Says Its New Airflow Gates Do It All

If you need more than simple opening and closing functionality the new Precision Airflow Gates are an answer. When your blast gate needs go beyond fundamental operational functionality, Precision Airflow Gates says it offers a higher degree of precision, critical for certain industry demands. The latest development from Ecogate, the new Precision Airflow Gates are […]

New York City New Building Filings Hit Record High

New York City is sometimes an outlier to the rest of the nation but a record number of new building filings is good news for the whole country. New construction permits for New York City for the fourth quarter of 2023 represented the highest quarterly tally for the 2020s decade so far, according to just-released […]

Interior Designers Are the New Architects

They always were involved in home design but increasingly interior designers are creating the houses themselves. For home and commercial builders used to working with traditional architects there’s increasingly another player in the creation of new houses and other commercial structures: the interior designer. TV host Bobby Berk, an Emmy Award-winning designer well known to […]