Hardwood Floors February/March 2019

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• Harris Wood announced the appointment of Crescent Hardwood Supply (Harahan, Louisiana) as the company’s newest distributor. Crescent will be representing the full line of Harris Wood-branded engineered flooring products and accessories throughout the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, southern Alabama, and Florida’s panhandle. • Hoy Lanning Jr. has been promoted to President &CEO of J.J. Haines &Co. He has held numerous executive positions with Haines since January 2014, most recently serving as Executive Vice President-Business Development. • Forest To Floor welcomed Josh Wilbanks as Vice President of Distribution for the North Little Rock, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee, locations. • The North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD) recognized Dunn Rasbury of A&M Supply from Pinellas Park, Florida, as the recipient of the 2018 NAFCD Growth Award. • Horizon Forest Products joined efforts with the Stepping Stones Foundation in Keller, Texas, to help a family of five children headed for foster care live in a home they deserve. The company DISTRIBUTOR DOINGS

At the end of last year, Bast Floors & Staircases was hired to work with the architects for the expansion of the Norton Museum of Art, located in West Palm Beach, Florida. The museum, which was founded in 1941 by Ralph Hubbard Norton and his wife, Elizabeth, houses more than 7,600 works in five curatorial departments, including European, American, Chinese, Contemporary, and Photography.

input regarding the 16,000-square-foot installation,” says Remiah Newton, Vice President of Bast Floors & Staircases. “The best part of my job is interacting with our clients as well as the design/build teams. I thoroughly enjoy working together to create a plan of action and then seeing everything come together from start to finish,” says Newton. The floors were installed with a glue- down application. The flooring on the

In 2013, Norton trustees decided to expand the museum, hiring the renowned London-based architectural firm Foster + Partners to design a new building. The new 59,000-square- foot building, which opened Feb. 9, 2019, was designed to cater to the growing community that visits the museum and, of course, the expanding

collection of art. FLOOR FOCUS

The wood flooring selected for this job was prefinished European white oak. “Our teamworked with the architects on the project to provide

first level of the museum was glued to the slab and

donated nearly $2,500 worth of prefinished flooring and preparation materials.

All photos courtesy of Remiah Newton.

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