Toronto’s IIDEX Reboots as IDS Contract
IIDEX is dead; long live IIDEX. IIDEXCanada, formerly Canada’s largest design expo and conference, presented by Interior Designers of Canada and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, premiered last week in its new guise at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Patti Stewart, executive VP at Informa Canada, explained on opening day, “We combined the greatness of IIDEX, which focused on commercial and industrial design, with IDS, our [residential] Interior Design Show, and brought the two together to have one amazing design event.” There were 375 exhibitors. Thursday and Friday attracted 14,000 trade visitors; Saturday and Sunday drew 30,000 public visitors. With an eye to officeinsight readers, Karen Kang, National Director, IDS Canada, said, “What would appeal to an American audience is that on both sides of the show we have some amazing Canadian content that just isn’t present in the U.S.” Coming up: some of those amazing finds on the …
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