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A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FURNISHINGS AND DESIGN ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL PLATINUM INDUSTRY IN THIS PARTNER ISSUE ■ IFDA Experts Expound INTERNATIONAL GOLD INDUSTRY ■ Making Waste Wondrous PARTNER ■ Chapter News ■ Educational Foundation Announces Design Student Scholarships For 2021 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Ida J. McCausland [email protected] President-Elect Dawn Brinson, FIFDA [email protected] Immediate Past President Janet Stevenson, FIFDA [email protected] Treasurer Dave Gilbert, FIFDA [email protected] Directors Judith Clark Janofsky, FIFDA [email protected] Night in Toyota City - Page 10 Maureen Klein [email protected] Grace McNamara THE INTERNATIONAL FURNISHINGS AND DESIGN ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE [email protected] Sara Chiarilli [email protected] Contents Spring 2021 Rose Gilbert, FIFDA [email protected] CONTENTS Sue Williams, FIFDA [email protected] President’s Message ................................................................................................... 1 Educational Foundation Chair IFDA Experts Expound… ............................................................................................ 2 Karen Dzendolet [email protected] Making Waste Wondrous ............................................................................................ 3 Executive Director Linda Kulla, FIFDA CHAPTER NEWS [email protected] Arizona Chapter.......................................................................................................... 4 COUNCIL OF PRESIDENTS Carolinas Chapter ....................................................................................................... 4 ARIZONA CHAPTER Florida Chapter ........................................................................................................... 6 Carrie Kiser, [email protected] Illinois Chapter ............................................................................................................ 7 CAROLINAS CHAPTER Wilma Hammett, FIFDA, [email protected] Japan Chapter.......................................................................................................... 10 FLORIDA CHAPTER New York Chapter .................................................................................................... 14 Michelle Castagna, [email protected] ILLINOIS CHAPTER Philadelphia Chapter................................................................................................. 17 Karen Fischer, [email protected] Richmond Chapter ................................................................................................... 18 JAPAN CHAPTER Akari Koike, [email protected] Washington DC Chapter ........................................................................................... 19 NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER RESOURCES Jessica Chabot, [email protected] NEW YORK CHAPTER Education Foundation ............................................................................................... 20 David Santiago, [email protected] Membership Updates ............................................................................................... 23 PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER Laura Hawley, [email protected] RICHMOND CHAPTER Stephanie Theofanos, [email protected] IFDA NETWORK © 2021 INTERNATIONAL FURNISHINGS AND DESIGN ASSOCIATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. WASHINGTON D.C. CHAPTER Editorial material contained in this publication may not be reproduced without permission. Feature articles are the sole responsibility Rebecca Penno, [email protected] of their authors. Opinions expressed therein are not necessarily those of the IFDA. 2 ARIZONA | CAROLINAS | FLORIDA | ILLINOIS | NEW ENGLAND SPRING 2021 | NETWORK President’s Message IFDA & THE LONG info-rich February webinars archived at ifda.com for your viewing COVID LOCKDOWN or reviewing include Design Chat with Kathy Corbet; live tour of Hafele America’s new NY showroom; the Art of Blending Can you believe it has been a Design with Technology by Bravas, and Navigating the Client year!! A year of lockdown-- Yikes! Relationship with Psychotherapist /Designer Patrick Ryan. It can’t have been that long! On There’s More to come Here’s a teaser of what IFDA has in the the other hand, it feels like a planning for Spring. So much for being isolated! Every week puts at million years! least two important, informative events at your very fingertips. Hone Although we have been physically your professionalism. Increase your skillset. Have fun and meet new separated, we have been spending friends! lots of time together on Zoom. I’ve attended more on-line events this March Joined the Richmond Chapter for good craic and past year then I attended in person for the last five years! St Patrick’s Day Trivia. Not that I’m complaining; Zooming has kept us in touch all this time, Helped IFDA NY support the Bailey House in Harlem, NY, recognized and kept IFDA making news and attracting new members. The Virtual nation-wide as the first to offer housing, support, and advocacy Chapter threw its first-ever cocktail party, virtually, of course, and we for individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Tickets available for the gala & had folks on there from Hawaii to Florida – two warm, sunny spots, auction. with everyone in between deep in ice and snow! Know thyself: IFDA Philadelphia presented (live and virtual) “What is Many other Chapters are also managing to keep on keeping on, Your Brain Type?” despite the odds. April Stay tuned for our next installment of “Live from Japan”…IFDA December Holiday Parties abounded even if they looked a little Japan’s intriguing update on innovations in design and sustainability. different from last year. Arizona was actually able to host a live holiday party -- and with social distancing. Philadelphia hosted May Well-regarded business coach/designer Gail Doby will be live a virtual silent auction to raise money for the IFDA Educational for IFDA, friends and guests on May 20th at 3pm. Based on Gail’s Foundation. new bestselling book, Business Breakthrough: Your Creative Value Blueprint to Get Paid What You’re Worth, learn five key components January A rich offering of IFDA webinars included presentations to business success and reaching your life goals. by celebrity design entrepreneur Robin Baron and thought-leader/ style spotter designer Nancy Fire. From HPMKT, the “Historically We are looking forward to seeing you on Zoom – and before you Elevated” webinar featured David Santiago, NY Chapter president, know it – in person again! interviewing renowned designer Gary Inman inside the Bienenstock Furniture Library in NC. It was followed by the hosts’ live, hour-long Stay safe, stay sane! chat with the audience, which included a record number of students. Ida McCausland, IFDA This webinar is now available on the IFDA site, and will be used as a showcase for IFDA and EF to colleges and universities. Ida J. McCausland Interior Design, LLC President, International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA) February Live from Japan! Our second in a webinar series showcased Voice: 610-220-8895 our Chapter in Japan, bringing us cutting-edge news from Japan Fax: 610-522-4465 and Milan. Read more in Maureen Klein’s report in this issue. Other www.idamccausland.com “Nature’s Way is a lifestyle. It’s not a trend, not a fad; it’s not going away” - Nancy Fire, Style-Spoer 1 ARIZONA | CAROLINAS | FLORIDA | ILLINOIS | NEW ENGLAND SPRING 2021 | NETWORK FEATURE Ideas From the Zoom Classroom IFDA Experts Expound Submitted by Rose Gilbert, FIFDA The means may be virtual but the information flowing from IFDA’s year-long series of Zoom events has been real, valuable, and often, just plain fun. Since Covid shut us in last March, we have sat through dozens of webinars – the New York Chapter alone has created 60-plus, most of them archived at ifda.com. Here’s an instant-replay of advice and ideas we’ve picked up from IFDA’s experts along the way. Patrick Ryan, psychotherapist- success are those who have specialized (in areas as diverse as acoustic turned-interior-designer (2019 IFDA design for restaurants to greenhouses, medical offices, prisons, and RISING STAR), holds a master’s medical centers). Our market today demands high-level work, and in social work from Fordham U, specializing permits us to give clients the quality work they desire and worked with the Coalition for demand. Also, it most often leads to better profit.” the Homeless, The Family Center (families with a parent terminally ill Libby Langdon, interior designer, from cancer or HIV), then Mt. Sinai author, product designer, and TV Adolescent Center for homeless personality “Clients are starting to ask, or deeply troubled teens. “Then ‘What are you bringing into my home? I went looking for a less emotionally What is it made of?’ (But) they want a stressful job,” following his interest in balance between style and function. They Patrick Ryan: ‘Design as therapy’ art and design to a couple of classes at drink red wine, the kids eat spaghetti. Parsons. Patrick was soon juggling his They want performance fabrics. (Also) they private psychotherapy practice and a parttime position at a design want to jump on the outdoor trend, so the firm. “Design quickly won out…but the two careers are surprisingly industry is looking for ways to reuse what Libby Langdon: ‘Balance style, function’ similar.” Now Patrick practices what he calls “a type of motivational has been waste, for example, Polywood, interviewing, aka, “OARS. O for