Doors
A door isn’t one single product, but a kit of parts working together. In this product feature, we present some innovative components, including a sleek handle, Victorian-inspired glass, an ADA-compliant sill, and greener skins, cores, and trim.

KBIS ­ July 2009
Big-brand no-shows may have tempered the buzz of this year’s Kitchen & Bath Industries Show, but the prevailing mood was surprisingly upbeat. Many manufacturers played it safe by expanding existing lines or reengineering them to improve water and energy efficiency, while others embraced superficiality: new finishes, textured surface treatments, and an emphasis on flush installations.

Milan Furniture Fair ­  July 2009
As expected, attendance was down at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile this April following several years of astronomical growth. While still the world’s premiere design event, the sobering times had manufacturers scaling back, and designers looking back.

Product Reports 2008
Every year, Architectural Record invites a jury of architects, lighting designers, and product specialists to convene for a day to help our editors select the most noteworthy building products launched in the last 12 months. View the 2008 winners in 13 different categories, including Furnishings, Openings, and Thermal & Moisture Protection.

Product Reports ­  2007
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RECORD Holiday Picks
RECORD presents its first-ever Holiday Gift Guide for those readers looking for well-designed presents for clients, colleagues, friends, relatives, or even themselves. The following collection includes a carefully compiled group of gifts selected by Products editor Rita Catinella Orrell.

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Each month RECORD reviews building product related web sites and blogs that might be of interest to our readership. We visit each site, kick the tires a bit, and share what it is about and how it functions.

Ingo Mauer and Osram ally for a visionary OLED
Celebrated for his avant-garde approach to illumination, Munich-based lighting designer Ingo Mauer was tapped by Osram Opto Semiconductors to develop an actual fixture using the company’s pioneering OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology.

Featured Tradeshow Interview: Patrick Jouin
During the 2007 Salone del Mobile in Milan, French-born designer Patrick Jouin sat down in the Kartell booth with RECORD to discuss his new chair design for the Italian plastic furnishings company.

Listen in as Jouin explains the technology that gives his new Thalya chair for Kartell new levels of strength while remaining lightweight, as well as why he became a designer, and what his firm is working on next.

Image courtesy of Patrick Jouin

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