As each year winds to a close, there is much opportunity to both reflect on the past and get excited for the future.

 

If you clicked on our Year in Review link in the top article of this newsletter, you saw some great furniture designs that we had the pleasure to build this year. And, of course, that is just a small sampling of the work we have done. You will see that we introduced a new product line, Engage, and that included new technology, the Covert Glide. And you will see that once again walnut and white oak ruled for veneer. But you'll also note that we're seeing a nice return to the solid wood of our past and are finally seeing orders for something we have been discussing for a long time: porcelain as another tabletop, credenza top and transaction counter material.

 

We're always excited for new market trends, and old. With the incredible amount of building slated to take place in our markets, including New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Chicago in particular, we expect to see a 2018 (and '19 and '20) ripe with furniture building opportunities from the very complex to the more standard, such as the increasingly popular collaborative table. And there will no doubt be continued demand for reconfigurable tables, as some companies move but downsize, making compact storage solutions, like our Arbor tables, all the more valuable and necessary.  

 

In terms of WallGoldfinger as a company, we leave 2017 thankful for our incredibly dedicated team here in Vermont and our sales representatives across the country; for all of the clients, architects and dealers who choose WallGoldfinger for their quality corporate furniture needs; and for the physical: our beautiful environment both outside our doors and our incredible factory, of which we are constantly striving to improve.

 

At right are some images of a couple of this year's improvements, including (top) moving our sculpture wall from our 200 Lex renovated New York showroom to Vermont to showcasing beautiful veneer panels along one wall in our factory. Below those is a project we're particularly excited about: Hudson Yards in New York City. And then we are showing a few more projects from the year gone past. They didn't make our Top 10 list, mostly due to photo quality versus project quality, but we're still pleased to have had the opportunity to build them and to share them with you here.