SAVE THE DATE
June 5
CHAPTER EVENT
"What's Hot In Cooking: Current Cooking Technologies and Venting Options"
Hosted by PIRCH
200 Lafayette St
Wednesday, June 21
5:30-8PM
Flatiron District, NYC
SUMMER SOCIAL
NKBA, IDS, IFDA & DLFNY invite you to
"Treasure Island"
Hosted by Hafele and TOTO
Wednesday, July 19
5:30 pm-8PM
20 W 22nd St
CHAPTER MEETING
"The Feng Shui Kitchen"
Wednesday, Sept 14
5:30pm-8PM
Hosted by JENN-AIR
222 E 59th St 5th FL
CHAPTER MEETING
"The Artful-Science of "WINNING" More Business Using The Internet"
Hosted by
Fisher & Paykel
Thursday, Oct 19
5:30 pm-8PM
150 E 58th St
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The NKBA is the ONLY professional organization that solely supports kitchen, bath and hardware with over 60,000 members in North America!
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EXPERIENCE ALL THE BENEFITS OF AN NKBA MEMBERSHIP
Complimentary Chapter Events including Summer and Winter Socials
Complimentary Vendor Excursions
On-line Education and Business Development
Webinars
Advanced Registration for KBIS and Design & Construction Week
Professional Certification Courses
Legislative Support and Advocacy
Industry Job Boards
Consumer Access to Your Company Information
Health Insurance Benefit Plan
Member Discounts on Products and Services Including: Banking, Car Rentals, Office Supplies
To find out more or to apply for membership:nkba.org
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Do have a story of interest to our design community?
Contact VP Communications
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5th Annual Kips Bays Boys & Girls Club Decorator Show House Breakfast
ABOVE: Francoise Dion and Benoit Laroche of Richelieu
Our annual breakfast celebrating the Kips Bay Decorator Show House was well attended and absolutely wonderful. Graciously hosted by MIELE, the breakfast included coffee in the garden, passed brunch-style canapes in the luxurious kitchen designed by Bakes and Kropp, which featured some of Miele's latest appliances, and a tour of the house. A fabulous time was had by all!
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  This year's ICFF Show at the Javits Center included NKBA Manhattan Chapter's own VP Communications Toni Sabatino introducing her "Retro" collection for Baden Haus.
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Meet Auxiliary Board Member
FELICITAS Oefelein
LEFT: Felicitas on the MTI vendor excursion
NKBA Manhattan is pleased to announce Felicitas Oefelein has been named our Vendor Excursion Coordinator.
Meet Felicitas:
"Just a little over two years ago, I was invited to visit MONOGRAM as a part of a group of NKBA members. I had so much fun, that shortly afterwards I decided to join this great organization. Since then, I have had the opportunity to travel to MTI in Georgia, back to MONOGRAM in KY for their annual Designer Summit, and I just returned from Jenn-Air in Chicago. I am very excited to be in charge of vendor excursions for the Manhattan chapter. Beyond going on fun trips, I enjoy our monthly board meetings and have made some real friends in this awesome community. I moved to New York from Germany over 20 years ago. Now I specialize in high-end residential design and own two companies: FO Design and HomedesignRX. I also taught Materials at Parsons for a number of years, so I have a natural passion for designing kitchens and bathrooms-anything with hard surfaces. I share my home with my cat-man Basil, love to grow herbs and veggies in the summer, and entertain and cook with friends and neighbors in my renovated kitchen."
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NKBA Manhattan
thanks its sponsors
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
May flowers are in bloom! This month NYC had big things in store for the design trade with NYCxDesign, ICFF and Opening Night at the A&D Building. We hope you turned out, had fun, and were inspired!
At ICFF, our Chapter's Communications VP, designer Toni Sabatino, debuted RETRO, her signature line of bathroom vanities. We congratulate Toni for having the foresight to partner with Baden Haus and bring something new and unique to the interior design arena. Brava!
Don't forget that the 45th Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House, at 125 East 61st St., will remain open to visit until June 6th. The designers have outdone themselves this year with unique and inspiring room couture. Don't miss this one-of-a-kind designer showcase. In tandem with this show, our chapter held its annual celebratory Kips Bay Decorator Show House Breakfast there on May 24th. A great time was had by all.
Next month our chapter event will take place at the beautiful Pirch showroom in SoHo. Please mark your calendars for June 21st and come on down. We want to see you there. Enjoy!
 RENEE RIDDICK
NKBA MANHATTAN PRESIDENT
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CALLING
ALL DESIGN
STUDENTS!
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To all students graduating this month: Congratulations on reaching your goals! We salute all of your hard work, your persisting in your studies, project submissions, and tests, and your vision to become designers. We want to welcome you to the challenging, rewarding, and exciting world of kitchen and bath design. If you haven't already done so, do join our chapter! You will find the monthly events we plan will further your knowledge-from the mysteries of plumbing to the esoteric delights of designing for pets-and at every meeting the network of designers, industry sources you know will expand.This is a wonderful field to be a part of and we welcome you!
Please click the link below to take advantage of the opportunity to join our chapter at no cost to you! This complimentary NKBA student application is offered by FERGUSON.
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