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The article reviews several products including LED lighting series from the John Pomp Studios; floor lamp from the Arteriors; and the lamp from the Pablo Designs.

The article previews several products, including hand-printed linen cocktail napkins from Willow Ship, the indoor-outdoor waterfall chair from Laun, and the outdoor lounge and ottoman from August Abode.

The article offers brief information on several interior decoration materials including the Designs FRP Panels fiberglass-reinforced plastic from Crane Composites, the Alpilignum reconstituted wood from Alpi, and the GB Mesh glass and polymers from GB Light.

The article offers information on products that defy conventional notions of strength, weight and density including Glare fiberglass from Fibre Metal Laminates Centre of Competence, Fragranced Cellulose Acetate Plastic Pellets from Rotuba Extruders and Braided Sox woven sleeving from A & P Technology.

The article features Morimoto restaurant in New York. The two-level 13,000-square-foot spectacle represents the first Big Apple foray for both restaurateur Stephen Starr and architect Tadao Ando. The 50-foot-wide arched entry is draped with a fish-roe red PVC curtain. A rippling canvas-and-fiberglass ceiling, a resin-topped bar, a LED-lit wall of 17,400 half-liter plastic water bottles and beechwood furniture by Ross Lovegrove accompany Ando's signature concrete inside the restaurant.

This section offers news briefs related to architecture and design including the groundbreaking of the 46,000-square-foot Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and Antony Gormley's "Event Horizon," a public installation featuring 31 fiberglass or iron sculptures, life-size casts of the artist's body.

The article focuses on 12 lighting collections introduced by Yamagiwa Corp. at Euroluce during the 2009 Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, Italy by recruiting talent from London, England, Paris, France, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Japan. Glass fibers were combined with resin by Toyo Ito in Japan to create the ethereal spheres of the Mayuhana table lamps and pendant fixtures. Peter Emrys-Roberts of London folded a ribbon of acrylic covered in ribbed fabric into a pendant fixture. Paris and Buenos Aires contributed Christophe Pillet's floor lamp.

This article focuses on the Comic-Con International, a comic-book and pop-culture trade fair at the San Diego Convention Center in California. Transforming an ordinary 30-by-60-foot stand at the San Diego Convention Center, Graft's white fiberglass installation read gray in one light, pale lilac in another. Assembled in San Diego, the installation comprised an enclosure for conference and server rooms, an archer 30-foot-high display structure, and a freestanding computer station, all anchored by vinyl flooring.

This article presents information on the Myo chairs collection designed by Pascal Mourgue and manufactured by Ligne Roset. The chairs include chaise, armchair and ottoman, which are distinguished by their fiberglass shell seats. The armchair is available in a version that rotates 120 degrees.

The article features the Fortune Cookies mobile interior decoration from Studio Lilica. The product is made of a stretched nylon-Lycra over a fiberglass form.

Presents information on how to reproduce Charles and Ray Eames' fiberglass Shell chairs. Statement from Frank Novak, co-owner of Los Angeles, California-based Modernica.

The article features the Esacore phenolic fiberglass material from Abet Laminati.