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Core77 is proud to announce that we’ll be LIVE! from the upcoming 2011 International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago taking place at McCormick Place March 6-8. We’ll be live on the floor bringing you the latest in homeware design, product presentations, exhibition design and industry trends through carefully curated video content. With 2000 exhibitors showing at the show, this year promises to reveal some great product innovations and exciting design news. This year’s show coverage will include perennial favorites like the Student Design Competition, Design Defined Honorees, Global Innovator Awards and products from the new Discover Design category. Watch out for presentations from celebrity chefs at the Cooking Theater, color forecasts from Pantone and the best new products from our favorite homeware designers.

The 2011 International Home + Housewares Show (IHHS) is a three-day event held annually by the International Housewares Association (IHA) to feature the newest product innovations and trends for all areas of the home. Exhibitors, industry leaders, buyers, and professionals from all over the globe attend this world-class trade show to see what’s new and discuss the future of the industry.

Check out our coverage from last year’s show:
>> Joseph Joseph
>> Karim Rashid + Bobble
>> Bodum
>> view Home and Housewares 2010 gallery

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David Rockwell, come on down! You’re the 2011 recipient of the Lawrence Israel Prize, bestowed annually by the Interior Design Department at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology to an individual or firm whose ideas and work enrich FIT Interior Design students’ course of study. Past winners of the prize, endowed by architect Lawrence Israel, include Gaetano Pesce, Charles Gwathmey, AvroKO, and Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis. “At FIT we encourage our students to develop their own design ‘process’ rather than creating a fashionable ‘look,’” said Takashi Kamiya, chairperson of the interior design department at FIT. “Rockwell embodies that ideal.” In recent years, the Rockwell Group founder (and—fun fact—son of a vaudeville dancer) has been racking up awards, including a National Design Award for interior design, almost as fast as high-profile projects. Having conquered everything from Oscar show sets to urban playgrounds, his firm is currently at work on the new restaurant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, W Hotels in Paris and Singapore, and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Society at Lincoln Center, among other projects. Rockwell will give the 2011 Lawrence Israel Prize Talk (free and open to the public) on Thursday, April 28, at 6 p.m. in FIT’s Katie Murphy Auditorium.

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