Canada’s largest design-industry exposition and conference, IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, inspired attendees for the 21st time this September in Toronto. With a focus on design for adapting work and living space, the show featured product manufacturers from up north and beyond. - Ingrid Spencer

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		It’s your workspace, do what you want to do ie, by Canadian office systems manufacturer Teknion, consists of an integrated set of multiuse components that migrate from desking layouts to post-and-beam structures. The same set of parts is employed throughout reconfiguration, and ie’s look can be altered by specifying different components, materials, and finishes. The post accommodates planning and angle connections at every 15-degree interval, allowing greater floor-plan density to accommodate work patterns rather than planning around architectural restrictions. Teknion’s fabrics and finishes collection consists of a wide variety of materials and finish categories designed to coordinate across all Teknion product lines, including laminates, wood veneers, and powder coats. Environmentally conscious fabrics and finishes are also available. Teknion, Toronto. www.teknion.com  [ Reader Service November 2005 # 224 ]
		Offices can be elegant MOBO Design’s 2006 Series of modular office furniture brings elegant tables into the work space. Metal table bases of aluminum, bronze, stainless steel, or gunmetal are polished by hand to a mirrored or brushed-metal finish. To avoid weak joints, no components are welded. Instead, they are meticulously assembled to fit. Tabletops are square, circular, elliptical, or arc-shaped, and glass tops come with straight or beveled edges. Wood surfaces are also available. Legs come in walnut, maple, mahogany, and oak. A stylish option for the 2006 Series tables is a computer-monitor platform that swings. Unlike attached tabletop trays, the solid aluminum MOBO platform is anchored to one leg so that the whole table structure effectively supports it. MOBO Design, Montreal. www.mobodesign.com [ Reader Service November 2005 # 225 ]
		Holographic custom finishes Hspace produces specialized holographic glass components for use in creating holographic environments and treatments for interior and exterior walls, floors, ceilings, doors, and windows. Hspace’s Spectrum Collection contains structural components in custom or standard sizes of ¼'' laminated safety glass, from 2'' x 2'' to 24'' x 24''. Applying light to the holographic components, which come with monodirectional and multidirectional patterns, releases a kaleidoscope of ever-changing rainbows. Created in opaque black, opaque gray, or clear, the material has an infinite number of applications and requires the same fitting procedures as any other glass product to install. Hspace, Toronto. www.hspace.com [Reader Service November 2005 # 226 ]
		Retro renews itself in lounge seating Pulse, or “Positive Urban Life Style Experience,” is a division of the Canada-based, 30-year-old company Regal Furniture Manufacturing. Its contemporary custom sofas, love seats, chairs, and other seating can be adapted to fit the needs of the client, with a variety of colors, frames, legs, foams, and fabrics to choose from, including vinyl, ultrasuede, and wool. The Babette love seat featured here (above) comes in blue, scarlet, chocolate, rust, and sage, with or without arms. Most designs can be shipped within four to five weeks, with some models shipping the next day with Pulse’s Quick Ship Program. Pulse Furniture Design, Winnipeg. www.pulsestyle.com [ Reader Service November 2005 # 227 ]
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