Help Offered for Tornado Victims Extended to Joplin Area

Due to the slow process of cleaning up and rebuilding, Myra L. Katz & Associates, Inc. is extending its offer to businesses damaged or destroyed by the St. Louis and Joplin tornadoes and are challenging other businesses to follow suit. 

We are providing you with an opportunity to put your best foot forward while rebuilding.  A $500 credit will be applied towards the cost of interior design services, helping to jump start your business.  Let us assist you with the selection of interior finishes, furniture, upholstery and artwork.  We realize that this will not make-up for the devastation and losses you've suffered, but we would like to help you make the best of a bad situation.  It could finally be your opportunity to tie your business interior to your brand.  Whether corporate, financial, healthcare, senior living, hospitality or retail, we have the experience and capabilities to create an interior that will improve your bottom line. 

If this offer pertains to someone you know who will benefit from our services, please pass this information along.

How Entrepreneurs Can Get The Most Out Of A Co-Working Space

By Deborah Sweeney, MYCORPORATION, August 4, 2011

Watch this space- it could become your next coworking commune. And it’s being built exactly with that purpose in mind.

A couple months ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on creating the perfect office. The perfect office was less focused on perfection and more on how to open up a space to inspire an imaginative environment that increased productivity at the workplace. Four design firms were challenged to create this kind of environment, preferably for the midlevel executive. Sort of like the Project Runway for the corporate world. True to form, the designers made it work- finding that certain elements of the office were kicked to the curb (filing cabinets, plaques on walls, gigantic desks) and others were reintroduced and heavily used to create a modern and engaging atmosphere (glass walls that slide open and shut, wireless technology capabilities, virtual fishbowls).

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How the Office Is Evolving

By Eric Kintz Aug. 5, 2011

The traditional office space is in the midst of its most dramatic shift since it was rocked by the creation of the cubicle more than 40 years ago. Driven by new communication technologies, the globalization of supply chains and an increased emphasis on real estate cost reduction, we've seen a massive change in the way people work. The "New Office" is an airport lounge on a tablet, a midnight video call on the kitchen counter, a shared table at the office or a collaboration pod for ad hoc meetings. These new workspaces create fresh

challenges for IT departments and technological demands from today's workforce - from new productivity tools to broader communication and collaboration solutions.

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Welcome

This is very exciting and there is so much to tell you. What’s on the agenda? Well, it will change all the time, but you can always count on learning something new.

Included will be information we hope will interest you about both Myra L. Katz & Associates and Aging-In-Place Home Solutions. You will find out what we’re working on currently as well as special points of interest about past projects…photos too.
When new products are introduced at NEOCON (the World’s Trade Fair in Chicago and largest market for the commercial interior design industry), you’ll find the Best of NEOCON in our Blog.

Do state-of-the-art technology introductions in furniture, lighting, floor, wall, window treatments, etc. peak your interest? We’ll keep you on the cutting edge. That goes for our aging-in-place and baby boomer followers too, and includes health and safety updates that affect all of our lives.


If you have a family member with Alzheimer’s Disease, there will be regular updates and tips on how to keep them safe and independent for as long as possible. Hopefully that will make your life easier too. Features will be written by our staff in addition to providing noteworthy articles and links to other sources.

We’ll always include tips for our commercial readers, as well as those that may apply to you on a personal level. If there is a new hot spot in town (or out of town) that screams “good design”, we’ll give you the scoop. Of course, we welcome questions about products, trends and design advice. We look forward to hearing from our followers.