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On the Move

Here's this week's roundup of who’s doing what, where in the design community.

Staff -- Interior Design, 6/23/2006 12:00:00 AM

Vivian Manasc is the 2006 president of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Manasc is architect and principal of Manasc Isaac Architects, a leader in cold-climate sustainable design in Canada. Kiyoshi Matsuzaki is first vice president and president-elect. Yves Gosselin is immediate past-president.

Office products buying group Is Group has elected three dealer members to its board of directors, to serve three-year terms: Mark Miller, president of Eakes Office Plus, Grand Island, NE; Maury Vockrodt, president of Office Systems, Watertown, South Dakota; and Bill Woosley, president of Cornette’s Office Products, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The directors then elected four officers for 2006-2007: chairman Jordan Kudler, president of Crest Office Products, New York; vice chairman: Mark Miller, president of Eakes Office Plus, Grand Island, Nebraska; Treasurer: Craig Bartholomew, vice president of Reporter Big Sky Office, Billings, Montana; and secretary: Gerri Kennedy-Holland, vice president of OEC Office Plus, Mobile, Alabama.

Architecture firm Holabird & Root, and Henry Horn of Horn Design have joined forces to form Holabird & Root/Horn, an interior design-focused firm with architectural and engineering support. Horn is principal of the new firm and Michele Dremmer is director of interior design.

H. Thomas French, Jr., joins full-service architecture firm Cubellis Associates as principal, civil engineering.

Charles H. Boornazian is vice president of sales for NuVision, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based advanced HDTV manufacturer.

Edward Smith joins Italian door maker Lualdi Porte as head of U.S. sales.