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What’s In A Chair?

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/29/2008

Melissa Dalton talks with Gretchen Gscheidle, Herman Miller’s Research Lead, about the challenges of designing an ergonomic seat…

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Show2008 is On

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/27/2008

upcoming: Show2008, the biannual furniture exhibition

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Deadline: AIA | IIDA 2008 Annual Design Awards

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/27/2008

what are you doing this weekend? not polishing your submission for the AIA | IIDA awards, you turned it in weeks ago…right?

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Color Pulse

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/26/2008

color trend talk in Portland next week

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Volume

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/23/2008

last chance to see Volume visual art group show and lecture by Arun Jain at WORKSOUND

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Lecture Tonight - Manuf®actured: From ReadyMade to Alreadymade

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/18/2008

Manuf®actured curators Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov take you behind the scenes of the Museum of Contemporary Craft’s current exhibition

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National PARK(ing) Day 2008

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/17/2008

time to bust out that paperback copy of Ecotopia! the city’s headin’ back to nature, one block at a time! or just one block…

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New: Preservation Bookstore

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/17/2008

new online clearinghouse for preservation-related books in partnership with Powell’s

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Something Old, Something New

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/16/2008

new bamboo tableware from Ekobo in colors that look comfortably familiar

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Intersection

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/11/2008

art, architecture, furniture design meet in Laubenthal exhibition at OPSIS’s 920 Gallery

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All The Pretty Pictures: Domino's "My Deco File"

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/09/2008

Useful tool? Idea factory? Desire machine? Time burner? Domino’s My Deco File is seductive…

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Plover Organic Sample Sale

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/05/2008

Portland-based Plover Organic is having its first sample sale on bedding from their debut Spring/Summer collection. Find quilts, duvets, pillowcases, and more at prices from 50-80% off with some …

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Touch It

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/04/2008

sculptural door handle from Zaha Hadid for Valli & Valli

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Wild and Woolly

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 09/02/2008

high medium low options for cozy wool blankts

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