Providing a destination within NeoCon where industry professionals can discover the newest styles, trends and technological innovations in tile and stone. ASCTEX is the opportunity to meet face-to-face with experts, ask questions, see products and better understand the versatility of today's porcelains, glass, cement, ceramic, mosaic, granite, marble, etc across a wide variety of applications. For more details on ASCTEX visit: www.asctex.com or email info@asctex.com.

“Come meet the industry headhunter everyone wants to know.  Stephen Viscusi is CEO of The Viscusi Group, the executive search firm that recruits everyone from CEO’s to showroom managers to sales representatives for companies like Holly Hunt Ltd., Waterworks, and B&B Italia.  Viscusi is unique as a recruiter because he started his own career in sales at Haworth.  He is the best-selling author of “On the Job: How to Make It in the Real World of Work” (Random House) and can be seen regularly on CNN’s “Headline News.”  Now you can meet him in person and ask him for your own career advice. Visit www.viscusigroup.com.”

Contract magazine is your source for NeoCon Xpress 2007. The Connection Lounge, will feature:

• Best of NeoCon 2007 product & furnishings
• 2007 Award Winners Presentation
• Meet the Editors
• Contract-Network
• Contract Connected

             

Here at the lounge you'll be plugged into the latest on Design, Art, and Sustainability--just like you are at our website.  We'll have a constant film festival of cool short films featuring the best of our first year plus some new stuff just for Neocon Xpress--you'll even sit in some of the chairs as you learn about them in our custom DASMicroTheater.  Eames Demetrios, proprietor.

The Environmental Design department at Art Center is about designing the total experience from the first moment of encounter to the last moment of interaction. This department spans a range of scales from spaces to object design. View various spatial projects including an installation featured at the Milan Furniture Fair entitled High/Low. High/Low is a series of pieces that look at the fusion and juxtaposition between high art, industrial design, culture and new technology.

Show Floor Display
Xperience the latest textiles and finish materials that were introduced and NeoCon World’s Trade Fair in this comprehensive exhibit. Looking for ideas? This pavilion will feature the newest designs and provide you with samples to inspire your future design projects.

Sponsored by Izzy

Take a break with Hannah and Rylee.  Relax, check e-mail or savor your lunch.  Enjoy life's simple pleasures - courtesy of izzydesign.  Your hospitable hosts in yummy sherbet pastels are Hannah seating with matching Rylee tables.

Show Floor Display
Local designers and architects will be challenged to “think outside of the office” and work with the reDiscover Center to create a work of art. The artists will have to put their imagination to the test as they work with cast-off materials provided by the reDiscover Center to Xpress their creativity. The art creations will be on display on the exhibit floor and a silent auction will take place on Wednesday, August 22 with the proceeds benefiting the reDiscover Center. ReDiscover is a community resource center that promotes creative thinking and environmental awareness using cast-off materials. For more information please visit: www.reDiscoverCenter.org